The Co-Course Director for term 2 of the MSt is Dr Marie Collier. Marie’s research focuses on modern and contemporary architectural photography, particularly in the context of the Soviet Union and architectural periodicals. She is currently working on a project on representations of domestic interiors on social media. Her doctorate (The Courtauld Institute, 2016) considered the intersection of photography, architecture and magazines in the promotion of socialism and key Soviet policies during the first and second Five Year Plans (c. 1928-1937). Marie has taught courses on modernist art and architecture, and Russian and Soviet art at The Courtauld Institute, and the University of Cambridge. She has contributed to edited volumes on Soviet architecture, and the representation of construction in the 19th and 20th centuries. She has also worked at the V&A, on a retrospective exhibition about the Anglo-Danish engineer Ove Arup. In addition to her art history research and teaching, Marie is Engagement Coordinate on the Action Research on Research Culture project and Research Culture Community Manager at Cambridge.
