Dr Julia Khodko

College position: Visiting Fellow

Subject: History of Printmaking

Dr Julia Khodko is a Visiting Fellow at Magdalene.

Dr Khodko is an Assistant Professor in Art History, based at the School of Arts and Cultural Heritage at the European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Her doctoral thesis examined the evolution of the usage, techniques, and iconography of intaglio prints in Moscow Cyrillic books of the 1700–1730s. For more than thirty years, she worked with Russian prints at the Print Department of the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, where she produced numerous scholarly publications and curated museum exhibitions devoted to eighteenth-century engravings, accompanied by comprehensive catalogues.

Her research focuses on visual culture in Early Modern Europe, with particular attention to cross-European contacts in the culture of printmaking during the ‘long eighteenth century’. Recent studies examine the transmission of images and figurative ideas from Europe to Russia through printed media, with particular emphasis on popular prints and devotional engravings. She has a further interest in investigating the process of the liberalization of engraving within European Academies of Arts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on models adopted by the Imperial Academy of Arts in Russia. In addition, she studies models of political representation in printed imagery during the reigns of Peter I and Catherine II of Russia and their European origins.

She has presented the results of her projects at conferences held at the University of Cambridge, at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia (USA), the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia (UK)

At the European University at Saint Petersburg, she teaches the course 'Russian Printmaking in the Eighteenth Century: Intercultural Transfer of Images and Ideas between Europe and Russia'.

Research Interests

  • Cross-European contacts in the culture of printmaking during the ‘long eighteenth century’.
  • Transmission of images and figurative ideas from Europe to Russia through printed media.
  • Russian popular prints.
  • Political representation in printed imagery.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Art History, The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • 1993 MA in Art History, The Ilya Repin Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia

Career/Research Highlights

  • 2023 - present: Assistant Professor, School of Art History and Cultural Heritage, European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • 2010-26: Lead Researcher, Department of Prints, Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • 2007-10: Senior Researcher, Department of Prints, The Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • 1993-03: Junior Researcher, Department of Prints, The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • 1987-1992: Assistant Curator, Department of Prints, The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Professional Affiliations

  • European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, UK
  • 19 v: A Working Group on 19th-Century Russian Culture - NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
  • XVIII vek. Study Group, State Institute for Art Studies, Moscow

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Mikhail Makhaev’s St Petersburg: Drawings, Prints and Painting of the Second Half of the 18th Century. Khodko, J. St Petersburg, 2022.

Russian Popular Secular Prints of the Late 18th to Early 20th Centuries. Khodko, J. St Petersburg, 2015.

Russian Religious Popular Prints of the Second Half of the 18th to Early 20th Centuries. Khodko, J. St Petersburg, 2012.

On Illustrating the Penticostarion (How Moscow Printmakers Copied European Originals in the Early 18th Century). Khodko, J. In The Piscator Bible: A Handbook for Russian Icon Painters. Moscow, 2026, pp. 28–41.

Resurrection and Passion of Christ. The Frontispiece of the Moscow Gospel of 1717 and its European Originals. Khodko, J. Novoe iskusstvoznanie, 2022, no. 3, pp. 102–117.

Printed Antimensia by Ivan and Alexey Zubovs. Khodko, J. In Russkij antimins. Gravyura na tkani, 2024, pp. 27–39, 157–158.

Prints of an Unknown Moscow Edition of the New Testament (1712) in the Context of the History of Cyrillic Book Design in the 1710–1730s. Khodko, J. Novoe iskusstvoznanie, 2020, no. 3, pp. 134–142.

Wisdom Has Built Her House the image of Peter I in the printed Shiryayev’s Thesis. Khodko, J. In Obraz Petra Velikogo v mirovoj kul'ture, 2020, pp. 274–284.

Email
jk2048@cam.ac.uk