Justyna Stępień is an Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies in the Department of British Literature and Culture, where she received her doctorate in 2012. In the years 2012-2019, she worked as an Assistant Professor at the English Institute of University of Szczecin. She is an author of British Pop Art and Postmodernism (2015), an editor of Redefining Kitsch and Camp in Literature and Culture (2014) and co-editor of a special issue of Open Cultural Studies Journal Transmediating Culture(s)? (2017). She is currently working on her book devoted to posthumanist artistic practices. She belongs to an international research group/ collective The Posthuman Art and Research Group (aka. Dori.O) that consists of artists and researchers from all over Europe. She is also the co-founder (with Katarzyna Ostalska) of Posthumanities Research Centre at the University of Lodz.
Research interests:
-posthumanism in artistic practices;
-new materialism;
-body studies;
-affect studies,
– performance studies;
-philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari;
– fashion as a cultural practice.
