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Priv.-Doz. Dr. Patricia A. Gwozdz

Vertretungsprofessur Lehrstuhl für Romanische Literaturwissenschaft (interim chair position as full professor)

Research Areas

  • Interdisciplinary History of Concepts (Figura, Vulnerability)
  • Literature & Life Sciences (Genetics, Epigenetics, Evolutionary Biology & Psychology)
  • Popular Science & Polycrisis
  • Medical Humanities (OncoCultures, Chronic Diseases, Life Writing)
  • Mothering Bodies in Science, Art, Literature, and Religion
  • Ancient Reception of Masculinity, Bodypolitics and Aesthetics
  • Globale History of Femicide in World Literature
  • Digital Storytelling & Memory Studies

Recently Published Scientific Papers Open Access (in German, Spanish, English)

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Priv.-Doz. Dr. phil. habil. Patricia A. Gwozdz

Privatdozentin für Romanische Philologie und Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Academic Positions

  • 04/2025-03/2027 Professor (interim chair position) for Comparative Literature and Romance Literatures and Cultures, Institute for Romance Studies,  University Potsdam, Germany
  • 10/2023-03/2024 Professor (interim chair position) for Romance Literatures and Cultures, Institute for Romance Studies, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
  • 04/2023-09/2023 Professor (interim chair position) for Romance Literatures and Cultures, Institute for Romance Studies, University Rostock, Germany
  • 04/2015-09/2023 Associate Professor (Postdoc Position), Institute for Romance Studies (Spanisch/French), University Potsdam, Germany
  • 09/2018 Guest professor, Foreign Language and Literature Department, Master & PhD Research Colloquia, Curitiba (Brazil)
  • 08/2016 Guest professor, Foreign Language and Literature Department, Master & PhD Research Colloquia, Curitiba (Brazil)
  • 10/2011-02/2015 PhD Fellowship funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Graduate-Research-Group “Forms of Life & Knowledge of Living” (GRK 1185)
  • 02/2013-04/2013 PhD Research Stay, Comparative Literature Department, NYU, New York (USA)
  • 04/2005-03/2010 Graduation in German Philology/Comparative Literature, Psychology and Philosophy, WWU University Münster, Germany
https://www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/programm/details/die_genesenden

Making Pain Visible: Medical Humanities, Narrative Medicine, Life Writing

Book: Die Genesenden (2022)

 

Book Chapter: Das Klinische Tagebuch. Ansätze zu einer Philosophischen Anthropologie der Genesungsprosa

 

Forthcoming:

Paper: Wounded Flesh and Starving Souls: Narratives of Convalescence in Unica Zürns „Haus der Krankheiten“ and Maria Erlenbergers „Der Hunger nach Wahnsinn“ (2026)

 

https://www.velbrueck.de/Programm/Theorie-der-Literatur-Kunst/Homo-academicus-goes-Pop.html

Research Area 2: Transareal Feminism, Motherhood Studies, Femicide

https://www.patriciagwozdz.de/conferences/panel-2024/

Comparative Motherhood Studies

Book Chapter: The Sacredness of the Uterus: Biohacking as Religious Practice in Black Speculative Feminism Fiction (2026) 

 

Lecture Series University Potsdam: Monster, Mütter, Maschinen: Eine Archäologie gebärender Körper (2025/26)

 

Lecture Series University Potsdam: Von Monstern und Müttern: Die Erfindung der Mutterschaft in Literatur, Kultur und Wissenschaft (2022/23)

 

Paper: Monströse Mutterschaften. Theoretische Überlegungen zur Figuration eines Konzepts (2017)

 

Forthcoming:

Edited Volume: Vulnerability of Mothering Bodies from Ancient Times to the Modern World (with Davina Höll, Routledge, 2026, in print)

Handbook Chapter: “El marianismo” as Religious Feminism? Understanding Latin American “Mothering” from Religious Devotion to Gore Capitalism (2026)

Handbook Chapter: Gender Studies. Vom “Mothering” zu Queer Parenthood bei Cherríe Moraga und Maggie Nelson (2026) 

Monograph in Preparation: Von Monstern und Müttern. Eine feministische Enzyklopädie gebärender Körper (2027)

Research Area 3: Interdisciplinary Approach to the History of Concepts, Metaphors, Ideas

Research Area 4: Digital Reading, Memory Studies & more