Katarzyna Marciniak focuses on the aesthetics and politics of transnational visual cultures, particularly on representations of foreignness, immigration, national (un)belonging, and the construction of border zones as sites of contention.
Professor of Global and Transnational Media, she inaugurated her career at Oxy during the 2019-20 academic year as a Distinguished Visiting Professor. Her recent research and pedagogy interests include feminist provocations, refugee representations, transnational classrooms, and postsocialist media studies in relation to Eastern European cultures. She is the recipient of the 2025 Linda and Todd White Teaching Prize.
She has authored two monographs, Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile, and The Logic of Difference (University of Minnesota Press) and Streets of Crocodiles: Photography, Media, and Postsocialist Landscapes in Poland (Intellect/University of Chicago Press). She also co-edited five books, most recently The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures (Oxford University Press). Theorizing the ethics of teaching trauma cinema, her article “Pedagogy of Anxiety,” which was published in Signs, won the MLA Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship in 2010. She is also the Lead Editor of Global Cinema from Palgrave. Her new book, Refugee Cinema, co-written with her longtime collaborator Bruce Bennett (Lancaster University, UK) is forthcoming from Oxford UP in 2025.
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