Edyta Just

Associate Professor, Head of Unit, Docent

My work is related to the academic field of Gender Studies, Medical Humanities, Pedagogy and Philosophy.

Edyta Just is associate professor, university lecturer, director and coordinator of the InterGender – International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Feminist Research Training, member of AtGender, The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation, and affiliate of Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics.

Areas of expertise:

Gender Studies
Medical Humanities
Illness and Health Narratives
Pedagogy
Philosophy

Research

Just’s recent research is in Medical Humanities, patients’ narratives and, in particular, international and Swedish research on endometriosis patients’ narratives. The research aims to 1) create understanding of the narrative forms which people use to tell stories about illness and health 2) create understanding of patients’ encounters with medical staff 3) create understanding of illness and patients’ experience of it. Adjacent to that is her work on illness and visual culture, and -in particular- supernatural horror films. Just examines how supernatural horror films can contribute to narrative practices in health in general and about endometriosis in particular.

Feminist pedagogy

This research area focuses on development of critically-creative forms of teaching and learning in on and offline feminist education. It addresses students’ skills, concepts of difference and body, and human-technology interactions (ICTs).

Publications

2024

Edyta Just (2024) Horror & Life: Telling a Story in Order Not to Run Advances in Applied Sociology, Vol. 14, p. 201-214 (Article in journal)

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2023

Maria Udén, Edyta Just (2023) Voices, Negotiations, and Continuous Conversations Voices from Gender Studies: Negotiating the Terms of Academic Production, Epistemology, and the Logics and Contents of Identity, p. 1-10 (Chapter in book)

Edyta Just (2023) My Awakenings: Response to Sarasadat Khalifeh Soltani Voices from Gender Studies: Negotiating the Terms of Academic Production, Epistemology, and the Logics and Contents of Identity, p. 50-54 (Chapter in book)

Edyta Just, Maria Udén, Vera Weetzel, Cecilia Åsberg (Editorship) (2023) Voices from Gender Studies. Negotiating the Terms of Academic Production, Epistemology, and the Logics and Contents of Identity

Edyta Just (2023) "I will Meet You at Twilight": On Subjectivity, Identity and Transnational Intersectional Feminist Research Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms: And Words Collide from a Place (Chapter in book)

Research networks

InterGender – International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Feminist Research Training

InterGender is an international consortium dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary feminist research training.

Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics

We gather, strengthen, and develop research, teaching, and collaboration with the society around us, within the areas of medical humanities and bioethics.

The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation

is a broad association for academics, practitioners, activists and institutions in the field of Women’s, Gender, Transgender, Sexuality, and Queer studies, feminist research, women’s, sexual and LGBTQI rights, equality, and diversity.

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CV

Academic Degrees

2016
Docent, Linköping University, Tema, Tema Genus

2009
Ph.D. degree, Utrecht University (The Netherlands), Research Institute for
History and Culture, Faculty of Humanities
Doctoral Thesis: New Reproductive Assemblages: Understanding,
Managing and ‘Using’ Human In Vitro Fertilization (IVF),
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Rosi Braidotti, Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Buikema

2002
Master degree, University of Lodz (Poland), American Studies, Gender and
Mass Media, Faculty of International and Political Studies
Master Thesis: Identity, Body and Gender under the Influence of New
Modern Technologies,
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Elzbieta H. Oleksy,

Professional Affiliations

Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics
InterGender
Atgender

Coordination & Participation

Scientific Projects

2016
STINT Project, New Tools for Transnational Analysis in Postgraduate Intersectional Gender Research - Towards Long-Term International Collaborations in Doctoral and Postdoctoral Training, Tema Genus, Linköping University; The Bergen Centre for Women’s Studies (SKOK), Norway; Gender Studies, Central European University, Hungary; Gender Studies, University of Western Cape, South Africa.

2010-2011
ETICA Project, Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications, European Commission, 7th EU Framework Program.

2007-2009
Acume 2 Thematic Network, Interfacing Science, Literature, and Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Subproject: Cultural Representations of Science and Technology, European Thematic Network Projects.

2007-2008
ADVANCE Project, Advanced Training for Women in Scientific Research, European Commission, 6th EU Framework Program.

2006-2009
Athena 3 Thematic Network in European Women’s Studies, Working Group: Visual Culture, European Thematic Network Projects.

Teaching Experience

Teaching experience

Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Technobodies in Cyberspace
Body Zones

Lodz University, Poland

Feminist Theory. Between Difference and Diversity
Feminist Philosophy and Literature
Gender and Academic and Creative Writing
Gender and Welfare State, International Perspective
Political Campaigns in the Media
Science and Gender
Images of Women and Men in Visual Culture and Literature

Teaching at LiU

Career Paths and Professional Communication
Theories and Methodologies
Feminist Pedagogy and Intersectional Gender Didactics
Introduction to Studies of Intersectional Gender at Advanced Level
Master Thesis in Gender Studies (First Year)
Master Thesis in Gender Studies (Second Year)

Organisation

People in silhouette in different bright colours

Gender studies (TEMAG)

At Tema Genus, we conduct research, PhD training, undergraduate and master’s education, and social outreach, all with a foundation in interdisciplinary gender studies and often together with international collaborators.

Drone image of the Tema building at Campus Valla

Department of Thematic Studies (TEMA)

In an increasingly complicated world, there is a need for researchers that can handle both breadth and depth, and can collaborate across disciplinary borders. Major societal questions are studied from an interdisciplinary perspective at TEMA.

Studenthuset on Campus Valla in Linköping

About LiU

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