Profile

Professor Ewa Majewska is a feminist theorist of culture. Her research focuses on the archive studies, dialectics of the weak; feminist critical theory and antifascism.

Academic Appointments

She held teaching positions at the Berlin University of the Arts, the University of Warsaw, and the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Additionally, she was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, and the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna.

Research

She is the Principal Investigator in the project “Public against their will. The production of subjects in the archives of ‘Hiacynt Action’”. She also conducts extracurricular seminars for studetns on this topic.

Publications

Professor Majewska authored and co-authored numerous books, book chapters and journal articles, including:

Books

• The Caring Leviathan? Hiacynt Pink Files, Biopolitics, and the Queer Weak Resistance (Brill Publishers, 2026);
• Słaba awangarda. W stronę twórczości mniejszościowej [Weak Avant-Garde: Toward Minority Art] (MOCAK, 2026)
• Czułe oczy Lewiatana. Archiwa akcji "Hiacynt", biopolityka i queerowy słaby opór [Tender Eyes of Leviathan: Archives of Operation "Hyacinth", Biopolitics, and Queer Weak Resistance] (Instytut Wydawniczy Książka i Prasa, 2026)
• Feminist Antifascism. Counterpublics of the Common (Verso, 2021)
• Kontrpubliczności ludowe i feministyczne. Wczesna "Solidarność" i Czarne Protesty [Social Movements and Feminist Counterpublics: Early "Solidarity" and the Black Protests] (Instytut Wydawniczy Książka i Prasa, 2018)
• Tramwaj zwany uznaniem. Feminizm i solidarność po neoliberalizmie [A Streetcar Named Recognition: Feminism and Solidarity After Neoliberalism] (Instytut Wydawniczy Książka i Prasa, 2017)
• Sztuka jako pozór? Cenzura i inne paradoksy upolitycznienia kultury [Art as Pretense? Censorship and Other Paradoxes of the Politicization of Culture] (Wydawnictwo Ha!art, 2013)
• Feminizm jako filozofia społeczna. Szkice z teorii rodziny [Feminism as a Social Philosophy: Studies in Family Theory] (Difin, 2009)

Selected journal articles

• • "Perverted Care in the State of Exception. A Feminist Analysis” in Signs. Journal of Women in Society and Culture (2026)
  • "But I am your mother!? Queer-feminist resistance to censorship in fascist times” in the European Journal of Women's Studies (2025)
  • "Abortion in the State of Exception: Weak Resistance and Unheroic Reproductive Solidarity in Poland” in Critical Times (2024)
  • "A Bitter Victory? The Emergence of Anti-fascist Cultures, Institutions of the Common, and Weak Resistance in Poland in Third Text (2019)

Chapters in monographs

• • "Queer eco-feminist counterpublics for the new millennium" (co-autored with Z. Łapniewską and A. Nacher) in Intellectuals in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2026)
  • "Metamorphic necropolitics: deadly othering in the European East-West power relations” (co-authored with M. Górską and T. Hendl) in Handbook of Queer Death Studies (Routledge, 2025)
  • „Counterpublics of the common. Feminist solidarity unchained” in Unchaining Solidarity: On Mutual Aid and Anarchism with Catherine Malabou (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
  • „Border Crossing. Landscapes of mestizaje, citizenship and translation” in Landscape Citizenships (Routlege, 2021)

Professional Engagement

She co-curated an exhibition of Mariola Przyjemska's work at Zachęta — Natioal Gallery of Art (2022-2023). Additionally, she is a committee member of the Utopian Studies Society, a European interdisciplinary association devoted to the study of utopianism in all its forms.