About

Dr. Marietta Radomska is a philosopher and transdisciplinary Gender Studies scholar. She is an Assistant Professor (biträdande universitetslektor) in Environmental Humanities at the Department of Thematic Studies – unit: Gender Studies, Linköping University, and an Affiliated Researcher at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. From July 2018 until June 2020 Radomska was also a Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Cultures (Art History), University of Helsinki, Finland.

She holds a PhD in Gender Studies (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: feminist theory, continental philosophy, environmental humanities, posthumanities, queer death studies, bioart, eco-art, visual culture, critical animal studies, and others.
She is the Director of The Eco- and Bioart Lab, founder of The Eco- and Bioart Research Network,  co-founder of Queer Death Studies Network, member of The Posthumanities Hub, 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 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 has 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 Principle 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 the book series ‘Focus on More-than-human Humanities’ at Routledge (together with Cecilia Åsberg).

Other networks and collaborations:

• Member of the SOLU/Bioart Society.
• Associate member of Posthumanism Research Institute, Brock University, Canada.
• Member of Design and Posthumanism Network (as a representative of The Posthumanities Hub)
• 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).