Misha Zakharov

Misha Zakharov is a russian-born, queer-identifying person of Korean descent (he/they), a political immigrant, and a London-based author, translator, film critic, and curator. His work includes an autofictional novel on coming of age queer, Korean, and precarious in putin’s russia, titled Doramaroman (No Kidding Press, 2022). He is currently completing a practice-based PhD project in Film & TV Studies at the University of Warwick, Coventry, as part of which he curated two interactions (2023-24) of Screening Rights, West Midlands’ festival of socially engaged and formally innovative cinema, and researches film events as sites of (un)learning and solidarity.