Eliza Steinbock is Chair in Transgender Studies, Art and Cultural Activism based in the Literature and Art Department at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University. 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. Driving their multidisciplinary research is the question of how local visual and material cultures can be marshaled to respond to global challenges of inclusion and exclusion mechanisms related to minoritarian identities, foremost to queer and trans identities. This focus has directed their investigation into the politics of cultural production and exhibition in the film, arts, and heritage sectors. The funded projects in these research lines are Shimmering Images: On Transgender Embodiment and Cinema Aesthetics (ASCA/University of Amsterdam PhD 2006-2011), Vital Art: Transgender Portraiture as Visual Activism (NWO Veni postdoc 2014-2018), The Critical Visitor: Intersectional Approaches for Rethinking and Retooling Accessibility and Inclusivity in Heritage Spaces (NWO Smart Culture Research Consortium).
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