About

Docent Dr Marietta Radomska is a philosopher and environmental humanities scholar.

She is Associate Professor (universitetslektor) of Environmental Humanities at the Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University, and the Founding Director of The Eco- and Bioart Lab.  

In years 2018-2020 Radomska was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Art History at the Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki, FI, under The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) International Postdoc Grant; and in 2018-21 – an Affiliated Researcher at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE. Throughout 2025 she is also a Guest Researcher at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies at Stockholm University, SE.

She holds a Docent and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees from the Department of Thematic Studies at Linköping University (SE), Research MA in Gender and Ethnicity (Utrecht University, NL) and MA in Philosophy specialised in Social Communication (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, PL).
Her research interests include: environmental humanities, continental philosophy, artistic research, queer death studies,  contemporary art (with a special focus on Art-Science, bioart, eco-art, and environmental art ), visual culture, feminist theory, and critical animal studies, among others. She is the founder of The Eco- and Bioart Research Network,  co-founder of Queer Death Studies Network, and co-coordinator of GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies research strand “Death Studies: Queerfeminist Materialist Perspectives” (together with Nina Lykke and Tara Mehrabi). In years 2018-2022 she served as the Co-director of The Posthumanities Hub.

In years 2017-2020 Radomska worked on the research project “Ecologies of Death: Environment, Body and Ethics in Contemporary Art”, funded by The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) International Postdoc Grant; and in 2020-22 she led the project “Queer Ecologies of Extinction and Multispecies Futures of the Baltic Sea”, forming part of The Seed Box: A MISTRA-FORMAS Environmental Humanities Collaboratory, phase II.

Since 2022 Radomska has been the Principal Investigator of the project “Ecological Grief, Crisis Imaginaries and Resilience in Nordic Lights“, funded by FORMAS: A Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (5 million SEK).

Radomska is the author of the monograph Uncontainable Life: A Biophilosophy of Bioart (2016) and co-editor of books Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies (2025, with Nina Lykke and Tara Mehrabi) and State of the Art: Elements for Critical Thinking and Doing (2023, with Erich Berger, Mari Keski-Korsu, and Line Thastum).

In years 2021-25 she co-edited the book series ‘Focus on More-than-human Humanities’ at Routledge (with Cecilia Åsberg).

Other networks and collaborations:

• Member of the SOLU/Bioart Society (2013-present).
• Affiliated member of the Research Consortium DIDE Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife (2022-24).
• Associate member of Posthumanism Research Institute, Brock University, Canada (2017-present)
• Member of Design and Posthumanism Network (2019-present).
• Member of COST Action IS1307 New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on How Matter Comes to Matter (Working Group 4: New Materialisms at the Crossroads of the Natural and Human Sciences; 2014-18).

Administration and leadership:

• Head of unit (Gender Studies), Department of Thematic Studies, LiU (2023-present)
• Programme Director for MA in Gender Studies – Intersectionality and Change, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Linköping University (2021-2023)