Marta Zarzycka
Instituut voor Cultuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek (ICON) - Ge
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Dr Marta Zarzycka is an Assistant Professor at the Gender Studies Department at the Institute of Media and Culture, Utrecht University. She teaches and publishes in the field of visual studies and feminist theory. She has received numerous international fellowships, among others at The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona; The Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, and The Wolfsonian Museum in Miami, Florida. In addition to book chapters, articles, and reviews, she is a co-editor and an essayist for Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics (I.B. Tauris, 2012). Her current book-length project is entitled Mothers, Mourners, Soldiers: Gendered Tropes in War Photography and is supported by The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (Veni grant). She is currently editor for the photography journal The Depth of Field.
Research Interest
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
Publications
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Objects of Remembrance, editor of special theme issue of The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts (in press)
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Moving (with) Images: Gender, Affect, and the Senses, editor of special issue of Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture (in press)
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Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics (edited volume), London: I.B. Tauris, 2013
