Assistant Professor Joanna Mizielińska, Ph.D.

Academic career: Ph.D. in 2001 at the Graduate School for Social Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology in the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2001/2002 she was a Fulbright scholar at Princeton University where she conducted her research under auspices of professor Judith Butler. She also teaches gender and queer studies at gender studies at Warsaw University. In 2004/2005 she has been a CIMO researcher at the Christina Institute in Helsinki University.

Academic interests: sex, gender and sexuality in culture, social construction of sexualities/genders/bodies, gender performativity; the problem of exclusion of the Other in culture, society and feminist thoughts; new concepts/models of family, “families we choose”; representation of femininity and masculinity in global culture; feminist philosophy, queer theory.

Publications:

• In 2004 she published her book (De)Contructions of femininity.
• Journals to which she has contributed articles include: The European Journal of Women’s Studies, Respublica Nova, OSKA, Pelnym Glosem, Katedra, Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki, Pogranicza, Czas Kultury, Krytyka Polityczna, etc.
  

Courses (SWPS)

• Femininity and masculinity: individual and cultural perspective (lecture)
• Family and intimate relationships (seminar)
• Gender/body/sexuality (seminar)

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