Katarzyna Marciniak
Associate Professor
2007-08 on research leave (Affiliated Scholar, Center for Feminist Research, University of Southern California)
Transnational Feminist Studies, Cinema and Media of Exile and Displacement, Visual Culture, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Migration Studies, Discourses of Nationalism and Globalization
Office: Ellis 353
Office Phone: 597-2750
Email: marcinia@ohio.edu
Degrees
Ph.D., in English and Film Studies, University of Oregon, 1998
Publications
Transnational Feminism in Film and Media (co-edited with Aniko Imre and Aine O’Healy). Comparative Feminist Studies Series (Palgrave, 2007).
Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile and the Logic of Difference (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). Book nominated by the Press for the 2007 Katherine S. Kovacs Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Film and Media.
“Immigrant Rage: Alienhood, ‘Hygienic’ Identities, and the Second World,” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 17 (2006): 33-63.
“New Europe: Eyes Wide Shut,” Special Issue: Emerging Subjects of Neoliberal Global Capitalism, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 12 (2006): 615-633.
“Second Worldness and Transnational Feminist Practices: Agnieszka Holland’s A Woman Alone ,” East European Cinemas, the AFI Film Readers, ed. Aniko Imre (New York: Routledge, 2005): 3-20.
“Transnational Anatomies of Exile and Abjection in Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain,” Cinema Journal 43 (2003): 63-84.
Ed. Postmodernism. Symposia: Readings in Philosophy (Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2001). 201 pages.
“`I Flutter Between Worlds’: Postmodernity, Exile, and the Politics of Alienhood,” in Postmodernism. Symposia: Readings in Philosophy(Boston: Pearson, 2001): 192-201.
“Cinematic Exile: Performing the Foreign Body on Screen in Roman Polanski’s The Tenant,” Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 43 (2000): 1-43.
Work in Progress:
Immigrant Rage (book manuscript).
Recent Invited Presentations/Guest Speaker:
“Immigrant Rage: Legal/(Il)legal; Research Scholars Series, Center for the Study of Women, University of California, Los Angeles, May 2008
“Truth Inside the Female Body: Violence, Rage, and Transnational Feminism; Symposium on Women’s Filmmaking in the Mediterranean; Wellesley College, November 2007
“How Does Cinema Become Lost? The Spectral Power of Socialism”; International Conference on Film History; Via Transversa: Lost Cinemas in the Former Eastern Bloc; Tallinn, Estonia, October 2007
“Streets of Crocodiles: Anti-Semitism in the New Europe”; The Marymount Institute for Faith, Culture, and Arts, Loyola Marymount University, March 2006
“The New Europe: Globalization, Anti-Semitism, Landscapes of Hate”; Humanities Center, University of Oregon, March 2006
“Alienhood, Or How Aliens Are Made”; Affiliated Scholar Lecture Series, Center for Feminist Research, University of Southern California, January 2006
“Immigrant Rage”; Department of Women’s Studies, University of California, Riverside, January 2006
“Film Forum: Film and Place”; Chicago Public Radio, Program “Odyssey,” September 2005
Teaching Awards:
Presidential Teacher Award 2005-08, Ohio University, finalist
Arts and Sciences Dean’s Outstanding Teacher Award for 2002, Ohio University
Distinguished Service Award for 2002, Office of Nationally Competitive Awards, Ohio University
1997 Graduate Teaching Fellow for Outstanding Teaching and Excellence Award Graduate School and Mortar Board, University of Oregon, Spring 1997
Selected Grants and Honors:
2005 Humanities Research Fund, College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio University
2005 Faculty Development Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio University
Research Incentive Fund, College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio University, Spring 2004
2001 Professional Development Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio University
Research Grant, Honors Tutorial College, Ohio University, Spring 2001
2000 Faculty Development Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio University
Ohio University Research Committee Award: Quivering Ontologies: Exiled Bodies and Transnational Narratives; Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Ohio University, Fall 1999
Courses
Graduate:
English 537: History of Criticism: Transnational Feminist Practices
English 537: History of Criticism: Transnational/Postcolonial Anatomies
English 537: History of Criticism: Postmodernism of Resistance and Feminist Investigations/Nationalism, Subjectivity, and the Body
English 536: History of Criticism: Feminist Politics of Bodies
Undergraduate:
English 497: Feminist Film: Aesthetics and Politics
English 466: International Authors: Contemporary Narratives of Exile
English 466: International Authors: Postmodern Narratives and Theory
English 460: Feminist Visual Avant-Garde
English 453: World Literature: Transnational Narratives/American Contexts
English 453: World Literature: Cultural Hybridity and Nationhood
English 447: Contemporary Feminist Theory
English 399: Contemporary Literary Theory
English 325: Women and Literature: Postmodern American Women Writers
English 325: Women and Literature: Female Figures in Transition
English 308J: Advanced Composition: Cultural Semiotics
English 306J: Women and Writing: Women and Visual-Textual Culture