About Us
The Project
The project Queer Theory in Transit is dedicated to queer theory in the humanities, in cultural and literary studies in particular, and focuses on Polish and German translations and receptions of, as well as contributions to queer theory. It addresses and makes productive the tension between the origins of this theory in US-American academia and its subsequent reception, adaptation and appropriation in very different geographical, political and cultural contexts. It uses Poland and Germany as two countries in close geographical proximity with diverging historical and political trajectories as examples to trace and compare the key processes of reception, adoption, modification and resistance governed by the historical specificities in these two countries. This includes a closer inspection of the way US-American perspectives and knowledge production have been linked to and integrated in local theoretical traditions and how this has affected the ongoing local production of queer theory emerging in response to local discussions and issues.
This research set-up will firstly allow us to stress interconnections and divergences in approach and in scholarly practice between these two European countries and, secondly, to develop a critical perspective on US-American cultural hegemony that historically has been viewed very differently in Poland and Germany and that in recent times has more generally become a debated issue with changing political landscapes in Europe and in a more global framework.
Team
Poland (University of Warsaw) |
Germany (HU Berlin) |
PI: Dr. habil. Tomasz Basiuk prof. ucz.
Postdoctoral Researchers:
Doctoral Researchers: Barbara Dynda
Barbara Dynda is a researcher at the Institute of Polish Culture and the Institute of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw. She holds an inter-area MA in humanities and social sciences and a PhD in cultural studies. Her current work focuses on anarchist culture and politics in Polish feminist and queer activism after 1989. Aleksandra Julia Malinowska
Aleksandra Julia Malinowska (she/her) is a doctoral candidate at the Doctoral School of Humanities, University of Warsaw. Her research project “Affective Poetics: Manifestos and Women's Rhetorical Strategies, 1970-2020,” conducted under the supervision of prof. Karolina Krasuska, is funded by the National Science Centre, Poland. She is an active member of the Gender/Sexualities Research Group and one of the coordinators of its Student Chapter. Aleksandra Julia Malinowska completed both her BA and MA studies at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw. Her main research interests are gender and sexuality studies, as well as affect theory, especially questions concerning the political utility of anger. On the “Queer Theory in Transit” project she has surveyed the reception and application of Anglophone theories of “queer time” by scholars based in Polish institutions. |
PI: Senior Researcher Prof. Dr. Eveline Kilian
Postdoctoral Researcher:
Doctoral Researcher:
Associated Researchers:
Student Assistant: Luca Michael
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Associated Researchers
Dr. Susanne Hochreiter (Universität Wien)
Mag. Mag. Dr. Tamara Radak (Universität Wien)
Maria Alexopoulos, PhD (University of British Columbia)
Funding
Funding is provided by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and the NCN (Narodowe Centrum Nauki).