Svitlana Matviyenko

Svitlana Matviyenko is an Associate Professor of Critical Media Analysis in the School of Communication. Her research and teaching, informed by science & technology studies and history of science, critical infrastructure studies and postcolonial theory. Matviyenko’s current work on nuclear cultures investigates the practices of nuclear terror, weaponization of pollution and technogenic catastrophes during the Russian war in Ukraine. Matviyenko is a co-editor of two collections, The Imaginary App (MIT Press, 2014) and Lacan and the Posthuman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). She is a co-author of Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism (Minnesota UP, 2019), a winner of the 2019 book award of the Science Technology and Art in International Relations (STAIR) section of the International Studies Association and of the Canadian Communication Association 2020 Gertrude J. Robinson book prize.