Argyro Nicolaou is a scholar and filmmaker from the island of Cyprus. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University, where she is working on a book project about representations of Mediterranean migration in literature, film, and visual art from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Argyro’s writing has been featured in the American Historical Review, the Journal of Mediterranean Studies and the Boston Art Review, while her film and video works have been screened at festivals and exhibitions in New York, Cambridge, London, Cyprus and Romania. Argyro holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a secondary field degree in Critical Media Practice from Harvard University.
How to raise awareness of the most recent refugee crisis in the Mediterranean in a way that does not spectacularize human suffering? Beginning with Bouchra Khalili’sThe Mapping Journey Project, this essay addresses how the present crisis has manifested as image and has made its way, across a variety of methodological and ethical approaches, into works of…
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