Dr. Ewelina Jarosz, Media and Culture Research Department, the Pedagogical University in Krakow, Poland

Dr. Ewelina Jarosz (she/they) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Research at UKEN, Poland. Her current research explores the intersections of environmental art, queerfeminist blue posthumanities, queer ecologies, and activism of pleasure.

They are also transdisciplinary collaborative artist working in  cyber_nymphs art research duo with Justyna Górowska and they launched the hydrosexual movement in arts. They serve as research fellows for the E.A.R.T.H. Lab at the University of Santa Cruz, California, and for The Posthumanities Hub, Linköping University.

Ewelina is a co-founder of The Blue Humanities Archive, providing a network for watery artists and researchers in digital art and eco-technologies. Ewelina holds a Ph.D. in the humanities from Adam Mickiewicz University. They were twice awarded The Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship to the United States, resulting in a longstanding collaboration with ecosexual artists, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, resulting in the performance “Cyber Wedding to the Brine Shimp” (2021) and the art documentary “Cyber Wedding to the Brine Shimp. A Hydrosexual Love Story” (2023).

Her recent publication is a book chapter: Ecosexuality: art practices for queering the Earth, healing and recovering [w:] Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Human Rights and Health, eds. C. Loggie, P. Aggleton, R. Parker, Taylor & Frances 2024.