About the Author

Patricia Gwozdz

E-Mail: gwozdz@uni-potsdam.de

Patricia A. Gwozdz (Dr. phil. habil.) is professor and lecturer at the Leibniz University Hannover at the Institute of Romance Literatures and Cultures. Her main research topics are fictional narratives in life sciences and medical humanities, theory and history of popular science communication, interdisciplinary history of concepts (figura), literature, and digital memory studies. Her new lectures focus on queer confessions, motherhood studies, and transareal feminism. New projects will elaborate the theory and history of vulnerable agencies. Recent publications: Ecce figura: Lektüren eines Konzepts in Konstellationen (100 v. Chr.–1946) (2023), Virale Wissenschaft: Über die Grenzen verständlicher Forschung (2023), Die Genesenden. Medical Humanities Revisited (2022).

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