Eliza Steinbock
About
Eliza Steinbock is Full Professor and Chair in Transgender Studies, Art and Cultural Activism. They direct the research-focused Centre for Gender and Diversity at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. As chairholder, Eliza investigates inclusion and exclusion mechanisms operative in the art, culture, media, and heritage sectors and studies a range of practices that are aimed at changing inequalities. They’ve been awarded € 2 million in EU and Dutch Research Council funding resulting in exhibitions, professional workshops, and 40+ publications analyzing the intersecting dimensions of gender, sexuality, race, and ability. They authored the Society for Cinema and Media Studies winner for “Best First Book,” Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change (Duke, 2019), and was co-editor of the TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly special "Europa Issue" (2021). Eliza is co-editor with Susan Stryker and Jian Neo Chen of the Duke University Press book series ASTERISK: Gender, Trans-, and All That Comes After.
Work
Maastricht University
|Full Professor and Chair of Transgender Studies, Art and Cultural Activism
Netherlands
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Maastricht University
|Associate Professor Gender and Diversity Studies
Netherlands
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Leiden University
|Tenured Assistant Professor of Cultural Analysis
Netherlands
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Leiden University
|Veni Postdoctoral Researcher (80%), Assistant Professor of Film and Literature Studies (20%)
Netherlands
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Maastricht University
|Lecturer of Literature
Netherlands
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Amsterdam University College
|Lecturer of Humanities
Netherlands
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University of Amsterdam
|AiO - Funded PhD position
Netherlands
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University of Amsterdam
|Lecturer of Media Studies
Netherlands
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Education
University of Amsterdam
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PhD in Cultural Analysis
University of Leeds
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MA in Cultural Studies