Dr. Dominique Grisard

Assozierte Wissenschaftlerin (derzeit Gastwissenschaftlerin an der New School for Social Research in New York)
dominique.grisard-at-unibas.ch


Portrait (deutsch)

Dominique Grisard is currently a Swiss National Science Foundation fellow at the New School for Social Research in New York. In 2011 she was a University of Basel Fellow at the University of Chicago. At the University of Basel she teaches courses on cultural theories and methods, discourse analysis, gender and terrorism, sexuality and the sexualization of culture as well as gender, crime and prison.

Grisard has published on legal, political and media aspects of left wing terrorism, on the imprisonment of women in 1970s Switzerland and on gender theory more generally. She is the author of Gendering Terror, a history of (counter)terrorism in 1970s Switzerland and Germany (Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 2011) and the editor of two anthologies on gender theory (Gender and Knowledge, Zürich: Chronos, 2004; Gender in Motion, Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 2007).

Grisard is presently working on two book-length projects: Pink weaves a history of gender and sexuality through and around the color pink (funded by the University of Basel and the Swiss National Science Foundation); a second project focuses on intimacies and sexualities in 19th and 20th century European prisons. Grisard’s research and studies have taken her to the USA, the UK, the Netherlands, Argentina, Germany and Switzerland.

 

Fields of interest

- Color history & science (incl. Nazi color politics)
- Left wing terrorism
- Social movements (incl. 70s and 80s gay liberation movement)
- Sexualities & intimacies in prison
- Girl (consumer) culture & feminine adolescence
- Sex/sexism in music videos & advertisement
- Discourse theory (Foucault, Laclau/Mouffe)
- Cultural gender studies & queer theory
- European gender history (19-20th century). 

 

Board / Memberships

- Board Member, Swiss Gender Studies Society SGGF
- Network Representative, Woman, Gender & Sexuality Network, Social Science History Association SSHA, USA
- Member, Swiss Association of Feminist Studies FEMWISS
- Member, Swiss Society for Cultural Studies
- Member, German Studies Association GSA, USA

 

News 

Gendering Terror. Eine Geschlechtergeschichte des Linksterrorismus in der Schweiz, Frankfurt a. M.: Campus Verlag 2011

Campus Verlag

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