Fellow 2023/2024 Jana Cattien
Fellowship Term: 09/2023–07/2024
Jana Cattien is Assistant Professor in Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, in the capacity group Philosophy and Public Affairs. Her research and teaching is situated in continental philosophy (phenomenology, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism), feminist theory, critical race theory and postcolonial theory. Her work has been published in journals like Feminist Theory, New German Critique, Hypatia, Signs, Radical Philosophy, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and Angelaki. Recent work includes articles on eeriness, anti-gender mobilisations, cultural appropriation, and Sinophobia and anti-Chinese racism during the Covid-19 pandemic. She has a book manuscript under review, entitled ‘Making the Nation Good Again: German Feminism and its Others’. This is based on the doctoral research she pursued from 2016-2020, at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London. Her current research is focussed on two projects: the political significance of pain, and discourses around pain, for feminist and anti-racist mobilisations; and contemporary imaginaries of China and narratives of Western decline.
