Petra Bakos Jarrett is a PhD Candidate of Comparative Gender Studies at the Central European University. Her research interests include critical border studies, environmental feminism, feminist theories of corporeality, gender relations in South East Europe (SEE), and SEE literature and arts (late-20th century and current).
Petra's doctoral research traces the interactions of SEE borderlands bodies and their environments via works of fiction, and follows these traces beyond fiction, where they reveal environmental pollution and social injustice, embedded in a global grid of inequalities.
Qualification
MA in Gender Studies Department of Gender Studies, CEU Budapest
University Diploma in Linguistics and Literature with Full Educational Credential Department of Hungarian Language and Literature, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Thesis
Borderlands-bodies: Corporeality in Narratives of Environmental Destruction