Gabriela Jarzębowska is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw. Her interdisciplinary work, bridging the gap between cultural studies, history and sociology, is focused on critical animal studies and environmental humanities. In her PhD thesis she analyzed cultural and ideological ramifications of rat control programs. Currently she works on changes in breeding practices in rural Poland before 1989, in order to understand conceptual and material relations between animals, socialism, agriculture and modernity. Her book “Species Cleansing. The Cultural Practice of Rat Control” was published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag (Imprint of BRILL Deutschland) in 2024.
Other publications:
“Unveiling Dark Sites: Urbex/Rurex as a Method in Critical Animal History”, Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, forthcoming.
Jarzębowska, Gabriela. “A Trade Like Any Other? Social and Moral Taint in Animal Dirty Work”. Society & Animals (published online ahead of print 2024).
Jarzębowska, Gabriela, Justyna Schollenberger, “On Queer Animals”, in Transpositiones, 2024 Vol. 3, Issue 2: Queer Animalities.
Jarzębowska, Gabriela. “State Capitalism as a Crisis of Imagination. Factory Farms in the Polish People’s Republic in the 1970s. ” Praktyka teoretyczna 51 (2024): 51-72.
Jarzębowska, Gabriela. “Species Cleansing: The Rhetoric of Rat Control in the People’s Republic of Poland 1945–1956”. In: Goody A, McCracken S, eds. Beastly Modernisms: The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture. Edinburgh University Press; 2023:125-142.
Jarzebowska, Gabriela. “Four-Legged Terror or Ultimate New Yorker?: Urban Rat Videos and Their Media Reception”. Society & Animals 31.3 (2021): 342-361. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-BJA10030 Web.
Jarzębowska, Gabriela. “Follow the Rat: From Necropolitics to a Theory of Interspecies Cohabitation.” Journal for Critical Animal Studies 15.3 (2018): 4-25.