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Dr. Jan Filmer

Research Fellow, GeStiK - Gender Studies in Köln, University of Cologne

Vita

since 07/2022: Research Fellow, GeStiK - Gender Studies in Köln, Universität zu Köln

2020: PhD in Gender and Cultural Studies, The University of Sydney; Title: Infrastructures of Intimacy: Queer (re)configurations of cultural space

2015: Master of Cultural Studies, The University of Sydney;
Title: The Architecture of ‘Normal’: The home as a site of queer resistance

2014: Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University College Maastricht;
Title: What Makes Us Human? Intersexuality: Bodies between Medicalisation and (Re)imagination

Publications (selection)

mit Kerryn Drysdale. “Sensing Scenes: Doing sensory ethnography in queer space and time.” In Vannini, Phillip, ed. The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography. Taylor & Francis, 2023.

Keywords

Queer geographies; everyday life; intimacy and infrastructure; heteroactivism and (homo)nationalism; qualitative and visual methods; Cultural Studies, Queer Studies; Cultural Geography

Casegroup

Social Sciences