Marianna Szczygielska
Professor
Gender Studies
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
Marianna Szczygielska received her Ph.D. in Comparative Gender Studies at the Central European University in Budapest. She also holds an M.A. in Gender Studies from Central European University and an M.A. in Philosophy from Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznaÅ„. Her research interests include environmental humanities, posthumanism, animal studies, queer theory, critical race studies, philosophy of science, and feminist STS. Marianna’s doctoral project, entitled “Queer(ing) Naturecultures: The Study of Zoo Animals,” examines how the concepts of nature, animality, and humanness have been and continue to be constructed in relation to sexuality, gender, and race through the establishment of the modern zoological gardens. She has published on animal collections and gender, scientific research on hormones, relations between affect, transgender, and animal studies.
Research Interest
Environmental humanities, posthumanism, animal studies, queer theory, critical race studies, philosophy of science, and feminist STS.
Publications
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The heroines of sustainable development. Gender and sustainable development in a critical perspective
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"The Conditions of Praxis: Theory and Practice in Activism and Academia" Editorial
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Transbiological Re-imaginings of the Modern Self and the Nonhuman: Zoo Animals as Transbiological Entities
