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.
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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