Kata Benedek (PhD, Freie Universität Berlin) is a researcher, critic, and journalist working on East Central European cultural fields, with a particular focus on LGBT cultural history, memory politics, and transnational exchange. Her doctoral dissertation, El Kazovszkij Revisited: Queer In/Visibilities in East Central European Cultural Fields, examines the evidence-based reconstruction of LGBT epistemes in late socialism within a global framework, paying special attention to how questions of gender and sexuality appeared in the official, state-supported layers of the cultural field.
Kata is currently developing a postdoctoral research project titled Transnational Responses to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in State-Socialist East Central Europe (1983–1989): State Policy, LGBT Citizenship, and Activism in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and Poland. Based on comparative archival research, the project aims to situate HIV/AIDS discourses – from healthcare regulations and policy to press and cultural analysis – in the satellite states of the Soviet Union.
Personal website: https://katabenedek.framer.website/
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