Journalist, film critic, theatre critic
Expert of the Mikhail Prokhorov Cultural Initiatives Foundation
Program Director of the Big Cartoon Festival
In 1983, Goder graduated from Lomonosov Institute of Fine Chemical Technology as a chemical engineer-technologist. In 1988, she graduated from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (formerly known as GITIS) as a theatre critic.
In 1990-1994, Goder worked as a section editor at the Teatr magazine; from 1996 to 2001, she was Head of the Art section and a theatre observer at the Itogi With Newsweek magazine. From 2001 to 2003, Goder was Head of the Art section and a theatre and animation observer at the Ezhednevniy Zhurnal magazine. From 2007 to 2011, she was a theatre and animation observer at the Culture section of the newspaper Vremya Novostei.
In 2011-2012, she held the same position in Moskovskie Novosti.
From 2006 to 2010, Goder was an author and presenter of the Cartoons on Weekends club program at the Aktovy Zal Cultural Centre.
From 2002 to the present day, Goder has been working as a mentor and teacher of the additional training program for young journalists at the School of Cultural Journalism affiliated with the Pro Arte Foundation (Saint Petersburg).
Since 2007, Goder has been a Program Director of the Big Cartoon Festival (Moscow), as well as a member of the Expert Council at the Mikhail Prokhorov Cultural Initiative Foundation.
Since 2015, she has been an organiser of the educational project Animatorium (Tel Aviv, Israel).
Since the mid-80s, Goder has been publishing articles on theatre and animation in Russian and foreign print media, on the Internet, on radio and television.
She has participated in the juries and selection committees of various Russian and foreign theatre (since the late 80s) and animation (since the 2000s) festivals, compiled programs for Russian and foreign animation festivals, has been a recurring member of the jury and expert council (and in 2011, 2012, 2019 – the chairperson) of the Golden Mask Russian National Theatre Awards.
Author of the book Artists, Visionaries, Circus Performers: Essays on Visual Theatre (2012).