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Ilse Aichinger
Jamika Ajalon
Hannah Arendt
Lilly Axster
Simone de Beauvoir
Monika Bernold
Dagmar Fink
Hannah Fröhlich
Tom Holert
Billie Holiday
Belinda Kazeem
Katherine Klinger
Anna Kowalska
Nicola Lauré al-Samarai
Adrian Piper
Yvonne Rainer
Rúbia Salgado
Shirley Tate
Dagmar Fink is a freelance literary scholar and cultural theorist. Her work focuses on: critiques of representation at the intersection between sex, gender, and race; cyborg theory; queer femininities; popular cultures (especially science fiction); technoscience. She co-founded the Association of Feminist Academics (Verband feministischer Wissenschafter/innen) in Austria and has been teaching since 2000 at various Austrian and German universities, mainly in the field of gender studies.

Dagmar Fink also pursues her passion for language and meaning in her work as a translator and editor. She has made translations into German of texts by writers including Donna Haraway, Adrian Piper, and Trinh T. Minh-ha – since 1996 as part of the queer/feminist translation collective gender et alia. In 2010, she founded the Frankfurt- and Vienna-based academic copyediting service Klar & Deutlich. Studio für wissenschaftliches Lektorat together with Kirsten Huckenbeck.

Selected projects

Klar & Deutlich
http://www.klarunddeutlich.com

gender et alia
http://www.genderetalia.net

Association of Feminist Academics (Verband feministischer Wissenschafter/innen)
http://www.vfw.or.at

Selected publications

“Vergnügt verwegen. Ein Nachruf auf Joanna Russ,” in: an.schläge. Das Feministische Monatsmagazin, June 2011, p. 34; long version at:
http://anschlaege.at/feminismu...

“Rot wie eine Kirsche, pink wie Fuchsia: Femme in Melissa Scotts queer-feministischer Science Fiction,” in: Barbara Holland-Cunz et al (eds.), Genderzukunft. Zur Transformation feministischer Visionen in der Science-Fiction, Königstein 2008, pp. 169-187

“Lese ich Cyborg, lese ich queer?,” in: Anna Babka und Susanne Hochreiter (eds.), Queer Reading in den Philologien. Modelle und Anwendungen, Göttingen 2008, pp. 157-170

“Cherished As Well As Suspicious: Femme Femininities,” in: Walter W. Höbling et al (eds.), US Icons and Iconicity, Vienna 2006, pp. 167-185

“Racing the Cyborg,” in: Verein FluMiNuT (ed.), Wissen_schaf(f)t Widerstand. Dokumentation des 27. Kongresses von Frauen in Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Vienna 2002, pp. 57-63