Guest PhD researcher: Clara Rosa Schwarz
Clara Rosa Schwarz is a visiting PhD student from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and funded by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.
Clara Rosa Schwarz (private photo)
Clara Rosa Schwarz holds a BA in Sociology from the Goethe University in Frankfurt and an MSc in Gender (Sexuality) from the London School of Economics. For their thesis, Clara Rosa researches queer friendship during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany and the UK, with a focus of constructions of identity and space. Clara Rosa is also the co-editor of the anthology ‘Queere Geschichte(n) – Erinnerungen und Visionen im Anschluss an Leslie Feinbergs Stone Butch Blues’, an anthology that brings together scholarship and creative writing on butch, femme, trans and lesbian history, presence, and future, that will be published in April 2025.
Research interests: queer theory, friendship, identity, queer femininities, femme/butch dynamics, feminist and queer methodologies, metaphoranalysis.
Publications
- Schwarz, C. R. (2022). Pandemic Observations on Research as Impact: Insider Research and Academic Kindness. Queer-Feminist Science & Technology Studies Forum, 7, 39–49.
- Schwarz, C. R. (2022). Researching Friendship in Pandemic Times: Methodological Considerations. In J. A. Albrecht, P. Gupta, L. Threadgold, & L. Wallace (Eds.), En-Gender 2021. Interdisciplinary Explorations of Gender Studies (pp. 116–128). Universität Heidelberg: En-Gender.