Bilde av Malinowska, Ania
Bilde av Malinowska, Ania
Associate Professor of Gender Studies Institute of philosophy and first semester studies ania.malinowska@uit.no Tromsø

Ania Malinowska


Job description

As Associate Professor of Gender Studies at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research (SKK), I conduct research at the intersection of gender and cultural studies, critical AI studies, media and technology, and affect theory. My work focuses particularly on AI and gender, human-technology relations, digital intimacy, emotions and affective technologies, cultural robotics, and the politics of emerging technologies. I am also interested in experimental writing and its potential as a mode of feminist epistemology and knowledge production.

My responsibilities include research, teaching and supervision, development of interdisciplinary research projects, academic publishing, research dissemination, and contribution to the Centre’s national and international research activities. I also develop artistic research at the intersection of AI, affect, and human-machine interaction.

My research combines cultural theory with interdisciplinary and artistic research methods, with particular attention to how artificial intelligence, algorithms, affective technologies, and robotic systems transform gender, intimacy, emotion, embodiment, and relations between humans and technological objects.


  • Ania Malinowska :
    Lessons on Love: Emotional Relationships and Attachment Styles in Sex Education
    2025 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Love Tester Machines
    2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    AI Assimilationism : The Cultural Flattening of Localities in Generative Models
    DISEGNO: A DESIGNKULTÚRA FOLYÓIRATA 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Techne i magia. Mroczna performatywność autonomicznych maszyn
    Teksty drugie 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Celebrating objects at the end of love. On a heartbreak as a public event
    Emotion, Space and Society 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Hypnotic AI: The Altered States of Media Matter
    2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    The Silicon Gender. Technological Species and the Transgression of Model Sexes
    2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Cutting Up Books: Cannibalism as Design
    Techniques Journal 2024 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Sadie Plant
    2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Feeling(s) without Organs: Performing Emotions in Blueprints and Schemes
    Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Global Popular Culture for Local Infrastructures. Migration of Texts and Problems of Transferability
    2021 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Fast Love. Temporalities of Digitized Togetherness
    2021 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Demonic Interventions: On Robots As Performing Subjects
    Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts 2021 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Waves of Feminism
    2020 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Camp TV
    2020 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Sexbots and Posthuman Love
    2020 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Obiekty i technofeelie
    Teksty drugie 2019 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    The Matter of Kissing
    2018 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Cultural Materialisms and Popular Processes of Late Modernity
    2017 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Heroines at the Outskirts of Culture. Hollywood Stardom in Intra- and Transcultural Practices of Camp
    2017 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska, Toby Miller :
    Sensitive Media
    Open Cultural Studies 2017 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Lost in representation: Disabled sex and the aesthetics of the ‘norm’
    Sexualities 2017 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Paternal Structures of the Romance
    Romanica Silesiana 2017 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Eonist Spies. Cross-Dressing and the Idea of Sartorial Camouflage
    2015 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Fuck For Forest. An Unromantic Perspective
    2014 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Bad Romance: Pop and Camp in Light of Evolutionary Confusion
    2014 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Cultural Transplantation and Problems of Transferability
    Word and Text. A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 2014 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Whatever works. O dobrej i zlej interpretacji
    FA-ART 2010 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Okruchy kiczu w swietym obliczu. Ponowoczesne interpretacje sacrum
    Literacje 2010 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    The Queer of Pop. Chwast w ogrodzie (pop)kultury
    OPCJE 2010 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Namietna i neurotyczna. Rzecz o Lucji Joyce
    Literacje 2010 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Kamp, popkultura, literatura
    Literacje 2009 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Camp a sprawa polska, czyli krótka zaduma na kondycją polskiego kampu
    2008 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Cutting Up Books. A Writing Method In Critical Thinking
    University of Chicago Press 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Love in Contemporary Technoculture
    Cambridge University Press 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska, Valentina Peri :
    Data Dating. Love, Technology, Desire
    University of Chicago Press 2021 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska, Michael Gratzke :
    The Materiality of Love: Essays on Affection and Cultural Practice
    Routledge 2018 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska, Karolina Lebek :
    Materiality and Popular Culture: The Popular Life of Things
    Routledge 2017 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska, Valentina Peri :
    Introduction. Dating the Data and Other Intimacies
    2021 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska :
    Technokultury miłości – Teksty Drugie – teoria literatury / krytyka / interpretacja
    2019 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska, Michael Gratzke :
    Introduction. Love Matters
    2018 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska, Karolina Lebek :
    Introduction. The Popular Life of Things
    2017 ARKIV
  • Ania Malinowska, Toby Miller :
    Media and Emotions. The New Frontiers of Affect in Digital Culture (Open Cultural Studies Volume 1, Issue 1)
    2017 ARKIV

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    Research interests

    My research interests lie at the intersection of gender studies, cultural theory, critical AI studies, affect theory, and media and technology studies. I am particularly interested in how emerging technologies reshape gender, intimacy, emotion, embodiment, and human relations with technological objects. I am also interested in experimental writing as a form of feminist epistemology and knowledge production, including practices that challenge conventional academic forms and explore how writing itself can function as a method of cultural and theoretical inquiry. My work frequently moves between cultural theory, artistic research, technological experimentation, and critical inquiry into contemporary technoculture.

    My research projects:

    • 2024–2027 Love Tester Machines. Prototype Technologies for Profiling Personalities, Feelings and Relationships (Cultural Research) • National Science Center Individual OPUS Grant no 2023/49/B/HS2/00054 (Role: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR)
    • 2020–2025 Networking Ecologically Smart Territories • Horizon2020 Marie-Curie Actions Group Grant No 101007915 directed by Prof. Noel Fitzpatrick of Technology University in Dublin (Roles: SENIOR RESEARCHER, TASK DIRECTOR, RESEARCH DISSEMINATION OFFICER)   
    • 2020–2024 Technologies for Love. Cultures of Feeling and Intimacy under Affective Media • National Science Center Individual OPUS Grant no 2020/37/B/HS2/01455 (Role: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR)
    • 2018–2019 Feelings Without Organs. Love in Contemporary Technoculture • Senior Fulbright Fellowship from the Advanced Research Program of the Fulbright Foundation carried out at the New School in New York USA (Role: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR)
    • 2017–2018 Love and New Materialism, National Science Center Individual MINIATURA Grant no 2017/01/X/HS2/00713 (Role: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR)

     Courses:

    • HIF-2300 - Diversity, Gender, and Equity: Leadership for Transformative Change in Institutions
    • HIF-1300 - Diversity, Gender, and Equity: Leadership for Transformative Change in Institutions