Bio
Dorota Łagodzka holds a Ph.D. in cultural studies, and MA in art history, is an assistant professor at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw. She is the co-author and coordinator of the Anthropozoology studies program. Her doctoral dissertation was focused on the animal as an art participant and material and relations between artists and animals from the mid-20th century to the present day. She is a recipient of two research grants about animals in art and culture awarded by the Polish National Science Centre (NCN). Dorota is an author of numerous academic publications, exhibition catalogue texts, exhibition reviews and has served as a curator for art exhibitions.
Publications
Selected peer reviewed articles in English:
- Dorota Łagodzka, Can an Animal Be an Artist? Non-Human Animals as Creative Subjects, in: Nature in Art, ed. D. Jałowik, A. M. Potocka, Kraków 2019. ISBN 978-83-65851-25-3
- Dorota Łagodzka, Animal Art Exhibitions in Poland from the Late 1990s to the Present Day, w: Animals and Their People. Connecting East and West in Cultural Animal Studies, ed. A. Barcz, D. Łagodzka, Boston: Brill 2018. ISBN: 978-90-04-38622-8
- Dorota Łagodzka, Hyperrealistic human-animal hybrids in contemporary art, w: Non-humans and after in Social Science, ed. K. Pauknerova, P. Gibas, Marco Stella et al., Pavel Mervart, Ceverny Kostelec 2016. ISBN 978-80-7465-199-1
- Dorota Łagodzka, The Future and the Moment of Animal Suffering in Space: Representations of Laika in Polish Contemporary Art, in: Free Market Dogs: The Human-Canine Bond in Post-Communist Poland, in the series: New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond, red. M. Pręgowski, J. Włodarczyk, Purdue University Press 2016. ISBN 10: 1557537402; ISBN 13: 9781557537409
- Dorota Łagodzka, Taking chickens seriously. Empathy and responsibility as sources of Mary Britton Clouse’s art, in: Sustainable art. Facing the need for regeneration, responsibility and relations, ed. A. Markowska, Polish Institute of World Art Studies & Tako Publishing House, Warszawa–Toruń 2015. ISBN/ISSN 9788362737895
Peer reviewed edited book in English:
- Animals and Their People. Connecting East and West in Cultural Animal Studies, ed. Anna Barcz, Dorota Łagodzka, Leiden-Boston: BRILL 2018. https://brill.com/abstract/
title/36120