Professor Marysia Zalewski

Professor Marysia Zalewski will be a Visiting Professor at the Gender Institute for the academic year 2014-2015. In 2013 she was presented with an Eminent Scholar Award by the International Studies Association for international research excellence. She is Professor in the School of Social Science at the University of Aberdeen and her areas of expertise are feminist and poststructural international relations theory. 

Research Interests

• Critical/Feminist International Relations Theory 
• Methodology/Theory 
• Violence/Sexual Violence 
• Masculinities
• Gender Mainstreaming 
• Aesthetics/of writing  

Publications

• Feminist International Relations: Exquisite Corpse, 2013, London and New York: Routledge.
• Re-thinking the Man Question: Sex, Gender and Violence in International Relations, 2008, London: Zed press (co-edited with Jane Parpart). 
• Intervening in Northern Ireland: Critically re-thinking representations of the conflict, 2008, London and New York: Routledge (co-edited with John Barry).
• ‘Taking Feminist Violence Seriously in Feminist International Relations’ International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2013, 15:3, 293-313. Co-authored with Anne Sisson Runyan.
• ‘I don’t even know what gender is’: A discussion of the relationship between gender mainstreaming and feminist theory’, The Review of International Studies, 2010, 36, 3-27.
• ‘Feminist Fatigue(s): reflections on feminism and familiar fables of militarization’ (co-authored with Maria Stern), The Review of International Studies, 2009, 35:3, 611-630.
• ‘Stories of pain and longing: reflecting on emotion, boundaries and feminism through Carrie Mathison and Carrie White’. Chapter for edited volume on Emotion and War (eds. Linda Ahall and Thomas Gregory). Forthcoming. 
• ‘Feminist International Relations: Making Sense’ in L.S Shepherd (ed) Gender Matters in Global Politics, London: Routledge. 2nd edition, revised chapter, 2014, 3-13.
• ‘Asking the hard questions about women’s human rights’, Human Rights: The Hard Questions, Cindy Holder and David Reidy (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, 362-381.