Natasza Gardner

Natasza Gawlick

Graduate Student

natasza.gawlick@duke.edu

Natasza Gardner is a sixth year PhD student in the Carolina-Duke Joint Graduate Program in German Studies. Her dissertation explores the way 21st century Roma and Sinti literature, theater and film facilitate the creation of non-territorial communities through their distinct formal and structural elements, as well as their theoretical commitments to queer studies, intersectional feminism, and Critical Race Theory. She is particularly invested in exploring the role of kinship, archives of memory and changing notions of citizenship that are articulated through and vis a vis cultural products. Natasza serves on the editorial collective at the DDGC (Diversity, Decolonization and the German Curriculum) Blog and is interested in the role that digital humanities and virtual spaces (such as websites, forums, etc.) can play in creating a sense of community.