Kirstin Mertlitsch
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PhD Project: Sisters, Cyborgs, Drags: Conceptual Personae in Feminist-Queer Theories |
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Description of the Project
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The objects of research in my dissertation are so-called »conceptual personae« in feminist-queer theories, which embody the critique of a homogenous, white, heteronormative feminism. The protagonists of these theories are hybrid anti-heroes, constituted through acting, body practices, and affect politics: Sisters, Cyborgs (Nomadic Subjects, New Mestiza), Drags. The meaning and function of these figures, which are developed from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s in Western European and Anglo-American contexts, will be analyzed in two ways. (1) Which new terms and knowledge do these »conceptual personae« introduce ? (2) In which kind of ways do »conceptual personae« communicate and experience gender-knowledge ? |
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Kirstin Mertlitsch studied philosophy and gender studies at Universität Wien, der Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and Università degli studi di Pavia. 2011-2013 scholarship at the research training group »Gender as a Category of Knowledge«. Since 2004 she is the excecutive director of the center of gender studies at the Universität Klagenfurt (on research leave) and since 2012 on the board of the Austrian Gender Studies Association (2012-14). |
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Selected Publications
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20.000 Frauen für die cosa nostra. In: Frauen erinnern das feministische Ding, hg. zus. m. Jacob Guggenheimer, Utta Isop u. Doris Leibetseder, Bielefeld 2013 (im Erscheinen). zus. m. Jakob Guggenheimer, Utta Isop u. Doris Leibetseder (Hg.): »When we were gender …«. Geschlechter erinnern und vergessen. Analysen von Geschlecht und Gedächtnis in den Gender Studies, Queer-Theorien und feministischen Politiken, Bielefeld 2013 (im Erscheinen). Von der Schwesterlichkeit zu einer Politik der Freund_innenschaft ? In: Kollektivität nach der Subjektkritik, hg. v. Karin Aleksander, Gabriele Jähnert u. Marianne Kriszio, Bielefeld 2013 (im Erscheinen). |
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