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Dr Justyna Stępień

justyna.stepien@usz.edu.pl 

Dr Justyna Stępień is an Assistant Professor in Literary and Cultural Studies in the English Department of Szczecin University, Poland.  She is the editor of Redefining Kitsch and Camp in Literature and Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014) and the author of British Pop Art and Postmodernism (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015). Her research interests encompass the transmediatization of cultural productions, aspects of everyday aesthetics, and posthuman bodies analyzed from a transdisciplinary perspective. She has published essays on popular culture, postmodern literature, film and visual arts, combining her interests in philosophy and critical theory.

RESEARCH FOCUS

critical posthumanism, new materialism, environmental studies, affect studies, bio-art, contemporary aesthetics, art as resistance

Her current postdoctoral project traces the intellectual debates on new ecologies of becoming of subjectivity in which questions of nonhuman / posthuman experience figure prominently. She is particularly interested in how art interrogates, challenges and possibly renegotiates boundaries of body in an already overly mediated and visually saturated world of advanced capitalism.

TEACHING FOCUS

critical theory workshops, transcultural encounters, youth cultures, seminars on posthumanism(s), introduction to popular culture

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  1. Stępień, Justyna with Beata Zawadka. Transmediating Culture(s)? Special Issue of Open Cultural Studies 1.1 (2017).

  2. Stępień, Justyna. “Savage Beauties. Alexander McQueen’s Performance of Posthuman Bodies.” International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media. Bodily Extensions and Performance. Volume 13, Issue 2 ed. by Sita Popat and Sarah Whatley (Routledge, Taylor& Francis, 2017) 170-182. 

  3. Stępień, Justyna. “Transgression of Postindustrial Dissonance and Excess. (Re)valuation of Gothicism in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive.” Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture. ed. by Agnieszka Sołtysik-Monnet (Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016) 213-226.

  4. Stępień, Justyna. "Nomads and Migrants in Affective Spaces: Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Sans Papiers and The New Mechelenians Projections”. Exile and Migration: New Reflections on an Old Practice. ed. by Joanna Witkowska and Uwe Zagratzki (Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, 2016) 87-101.

  5. Stępień, Justyna. British Pop Art and Postmodernism. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. 


  6. Stępień, Justyna. Redefining Kitsch and Camp in Literature and Culture. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

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