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‘Performing Illness and Queerness in a Bad Economy: A Writer’s Voice’ Izabela Filipiak (Lecture, University of Glasgow, 20 March 2013)

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Research Summary: Performing Illness and Queerness in a Bad Economy

Topic: Literary lecture on illness narratives and queer identity within economic constraints
Key Themes: Progressive impairment, performative aspects of illness, intersectionality of queerness and disability in economic hardship
Speaker Credentials: Published author in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction; former ISEES Visiting Scholar; Iowa International Writers' Workshop Fellow; Yaddo and Hawthornden Castle artist-in-residence
Event Details: University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Building Room 915, 20 March 2013, 5:15 pm, sponsored by School of Modern Language and Cultures
Source Material: Excerpts from forthcoming work “The Diary of Progressive Impairment”
Disciplinary Approach: Humanistic inquiry integrating autobiography, literary analysis, and critical disability and queer theory
Institutional Affiliation: English Department, Gdansk University, Poland

‘Performing Illness and Queerness in a Bad Economy:
A Writer’s Voice’

Excerpts from the forthcoming work:

The Diary of Progressive Impairment

Izabela Filipiak

Izabela Filipiak is an author of several books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction; a former ISEES Visiting Scholar; a Kosciuszko Foundation and Iowa International Writers’ Workshop Fellow and BBRG Affiliated Scholar at the University of California-Berkeley, as well as a Yaddo artist-in-residence. She teaches in the English Department at Gdansk University, Poland. She is now artist-in-residence at Hawthornden Castle, Midlothian.

This lecture is sponsored by the School of Modern Language and Cultures at the University of Glasgow and will be held in the Adam Smith Building, Room 915 on Wednesday, 20th March 5.15 pm. All welcome.

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