Katarzyna Marciniak
Associate Professor
Immigration Studies, Transnational Feminist Studies, Cinema and Media of Exile and Displacement, Visual Culture, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Migration Studies, Discourses of Nationalism and Globalization, Postsocialist Cultures
Office: Ellis 355
Office Phone: 597-2750
Email: marcinia@ohio.edu
Degrees
Ph.D., in English and Film Studies, University of Oregon, 1998
Publications
Books:
Streets of Crocodiles: Postsocialist Landscapes (photo-art document with photographer Kamil Turowski, Introduction by J. Hoberman, Intellect, forthcoming 2010).
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.
Reviewed in:
1) Feminist Media Studies
2) Comparative Literature Studies
3) Women’s Studies International Forum
4) Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal of Visual Culture
Postmodernism. Ed. Symposia: Readings in Philosophy Series (Boston: Pearson, 2001).
Journals:
Guest-editorship, Special Issue: Feminist Media Studies, co-edited with Aniko Imre and Aine O’Healy. Issue topic: “Transcultural Mediations and Transnational Politics of Difference,” 9:4, November 2009.
Journal Articles:
“Pedagogy of Anxiety,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (forthcoming 2010).
“Postsocialist Hybrids,” Special Issue: Media Globalization and Postsocialist Identities, European Journal of Cultural Studies 12:2 (2009): 173-190.
“Foreign Women and Toilets,” Feminist Media Studies 8:4 (2008): 337-356.
“How Does Cinema Become Lost? The Spectral Power of Socialism,” Special Issue: Via Transversa: Lost Cinemas of the Former Eastern Bloc, Koht ja Paik/Place and Location: Studies in Environmental Aesthetics and Semiotics. Annual Journal of the Estonian Academy of Arts 7 (2008): 15-28.
“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.
“Transnational Anatomies of Exile and Abjection in Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain,” Cinema Journal 43 (2003): 63-84.
“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.
Book Chapters:
“Palatable Foreignness,” in Transnational Feminism in Film and Media. Katarzyna Marciniak, Aniko Imre, Aine O’Healy, eds. (New York: Palgrave, 2007): 187-205.
“Introduction: Mapping Transnational Feminist Media Studies,” in Transnational Feminist Media Studies. Katarzyna Marciniak, Aniko Imre, Aine O’Healy, eds. (New York: Palgrave, 2007): 1-18.
“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.
“`I Flutter Between Worlds’: Postmodernity, Exile, and the Politics of Alienhood,” in Postmodernism. Symposia: Readings in Philosophy(Boston: Pearson, 2001): 192-201.
Work in Progress:
Immigrant Rage (book manuscript).
Guest-editorship, Special Issue: Citizenship Studies. Issue topic: “Immigrant Protest” (with Imogen Tyler, in preparation for 2011).
Immigrant Resistance: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent (edited collection with Imogen Tyler).
Upcoming Guest Talks:
“Digital Rage: Anti-Immigrant Activism”; Migrancy Research Group and the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Lancaster University, UK, February 2010
Invited Presentations:
“Pedagogy of Anxiety”; Women’s and Gender Studies Colloquium, Ohio University, May 2009
“The Humanities, Legality, and Immigrant Experiences”; The Humanities Program, Loyola Marymount University, Janury 2009
“Media Globalization and Post-Socialist Identities”; The Scripps College Humanities Institute: Global Media Lectures, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, October 2008
“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
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
English 536: History of Criticism: Transnationality and Performance of Theory
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: Exile, Immigration, Refugeeism
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: Immigration, Race, Nation
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: Genders, Sexualities, and Visual Analysis
English 306J: Women and Writing: Women and Visual-Textual Culture