malgorzata sugiera

Małgorzata Sugiera (born 1958) is a Full Professor at the Jagiellonian University and Head of the Department for Performativity Studies. She lectured and conducted seminars on German, French and Swiss universities as well as, recently, at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She was twice a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, DAAD, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, Svenska Institutet, the American Andrew Mellon Foundation in American Academy in Rome and IASH at the University in Edinburgh, in the academic year 2015/2016 of the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at the Freie Universität in Berlin.
Her research concentrates on performative arts, gender and queer studies as well as performativity and memory, particularly in the context of the history of science. She published twelve monographs, the most recent of which are Upiory i inne powroty. Pamięć –Historia – Dramat (Ghosts and other Returns. Memory – History – Drama, 2005), Inny Szekspir (Other Shakespeare, 2009), Nieludzie. Donosy ze sztucznych natur (Non-humans. Reports from Artficial Natures, 2015) and, together with Mateusz Borowski, W pułapce przeciwieństw. Ideologie tożsamości (In the Trap of Opposites. Ideologies of Identity, 2012) and Sztuczne natury. Performanse technonauki i sztuki (Artficial Natures: Performances of Technoscience and Arts). She has co-edited three books in English and German: Fictional Realities / Real Fictions. Contemporary Theatre in Search of a New Mimetic Paradigm (2007), Theater spielen und denken. Polnische Texte des 20. Jahrhunderts (2008), Worlds in Words: Storytelling in Contemporary Theatre and Playwriting (2010). She translates scholarly books and theatre plays from English, German and French.
She is a member of an interdisciplinary expert panel European Research Council (ERC) in Brussels, Belgium, and of Review Panel expert in the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST). Actually, she carries out two international research projects funded by the National Science Centre (NCN) under the HARMONIA and BEETHOVEN schemes.