Education & Professional History
Miami University-Oxford, PhD
Iveta Jusová, Ph.D., directs the annual Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe program (WGSE) and teaches in Carleton’s GWSS program. At Carleton, she teaches feminist and queer theory and feminist methodology as part of the WGSE program, and Introduction to GWSS on campus.
Iveta’s scholarship covers study broad and gender, Czech and British women writers and feminist philosophers, and she is an expert on East Central Europe. Her current research explores memory in relation to postsocialism in the CEE region, focusing on postsocialist nostalgia and Mark Fisher’s concept of haunting.
Iveta has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and two books. Her co-edited book (with Jiřina Šiklová), Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe (Indiana University Press, 2016) won the Heldt prize for the best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women’s and Gender Studies. Her monograph, The New Woman and the Empire (OSUP, 2005), examined the intersections of gender and colonial issues in the works of several British New Women writers.
In 2008, Iveta was an invited panelist by Vaclav Havel for a discussion with and about feminist psychoanalyst and philosopher Julia Kristeva at the Dagmar and Vaclav Havel Vize Award ceremony. In 2015, she was a Research Fellow at Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State University. In 2018-2019, she received Carleton’s Mellon Public Works Initiative Grants for her oral history project “Panel Story,” which focused on post-socialist memory practices in the Czech Republic.
At Carleton since 2016.
Current Courses
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Fall 2024
GWSS 243:
Women's and Gender Studies in Europe Program: Situated Feminisms: Socio-Political Systems and Gender Issues Across Europe
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GWSS 244:
Women's & Gender Studies in Europe Program: Ethics and Politics of Cross-Cultural Research
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GWSS 325:
Gender and Biopolitics of Health
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GWSS 391:
Women's & Gender Studies in Europe Program: Independent Field Research in Europe
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Winter 2025
GWSS 110:
Introduction to Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies
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Fall 2025
GWSS 225:
Women's Studies in Europe Program: Gender and the Biopolitics of Health across Europe
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GWSS 244:
Women's & Gender Studies in Europe Program: Ethics and Politics of Cross-Cultural Research
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GWSS 325:
Gender and Biopolitics of Health
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GWSS 391:
Women's & Gender Studies in Europe Program: Independent Field Research in Europe
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POSC 243:
Socio-Political Systems and Gender Issues Across Europe
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Winter 2026
GWSS 110:
Introduction to Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies
Academic Books
Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe. Co-edited with Jiřina Šiklová. Indiana University Press, 2016. (Heldt prize for the best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women’s and Gender Studies)
The New Woman and the Empire: Gender, Racial, and Colonial Issues in Sarah Grand, George Egerton, Elizabeth Robins, and Amy Levy. Ohio State University Press, 2005 (Published in paperback in 2017).
Digital Humanities
Panel Story: The Life of a Community. Pameti trí paneláku: život jedné komunity. Digital Humanities project financed by Carleton’s Mellon grant Public Works: Arts & Humanities Connecting Communities. With Jindrich Štreit (photograps), 2018-2019.
The project includes a bilingual website, a photo exhibition (Galerie Kupé, 11/21-12/4, 2019, Opava) and Pameti trí paneláku. Panel Story book (Opava: Surbanz, 2019).
Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters
“Contested Feminist Narratives of Three Decades: Uncertain Prospects of Czech Gender Studies.” Co-authored with Iva Smidova. Feministische Visionen
vor/nach 1989. Eds. Heike Schimkat and Ulrike Auga. 2022.
“Feminism and Women’s Rights Activism in the Interwar Czechoslovak Republic.” Co-authored with Karla Huebner. The Routledge International Handbook to Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Eds. Fabian, Johnson and Lazda. Routledge, 2022.
“Between Two Waves: Věra Chytilová & Jean-Luc Godard.” (co-authored with Dan Reyes). Studies in Eastern European Cinema. 10:1 (Spring 2019).
“Introduction.” In Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe. Indiana University Press, 2016. 1-26.
“Situating Czech Identity: Postcolonial Theory and the ‘European Dividend.’” In Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe. Indiana University Press, 2016. 29-45.
“Vera Chytilova’s 1969 Fruit of Paradise: A Tale of a Feminine Aesthetic, Dancing Color and a Doll Who Killed the Devil.” (co-authored with Dan Reyes). Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies 29:3 (December 2014): 65-91.
“Nomadic Encounters: Turning Difference Toward Dialogue.” Co-authored with Kelsey Henry and Joy Westerman. The Subject of Rosi Braidotti: Concepts and Politics. Eds. Iris van der Tuin and Bolette Blaagaard. Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2014.
“Continental Feminist Philosophy Meets Intersectionality: Rosi Braidotti’s Work.” In Why Race and Gender Still Matter: An Intersectional Approach. Eds. Namita Goswami, Maeve M. O’Dolovan and Lisa Yount. Cambridge UP: Pickering & Chatto, 2014.
“European Immigration and Continental Feminism: Theories of Rosi Braidotti.” Feminist Theory12:1 (Spring 2011): 55-73.
“Hirsi Ali and van Gogh’s Submission: Reinforcing the Islam vs. Women Binary.” Women’s Studies International Forum 31:2 (Spring 2008): 148-155.
“Said, Reuben Sachs, and Victorian Zionism” (co-authored with Dan Reyes). Social Text 87 (a memorial issue on Edward Said) (Summer 2006): 35-46.
“Gabriela Preissová’s Women-Centered Texts: Subverting the Myth of the Homogeneous Nation.” Slavic and East European Journal 49:1 (Spring 2005): 63-78.
“Re-Inflecting Femininity on the Czech Fin-de-Siècle Stage: An Analysis of Hana Kvapilová’s Acting Style.” Theatre History Studies 24 (June 2004): 35-56.
“George Egerton and the British Colonial Project.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 19:1 (Spring 2000): 27-55.
“Imperialist Feminism: Colonial Issues in Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins and The Beth Book.” English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 43:3 (September 2000): 298-315.
Grants and Awards
Carleton’s Mellon-funded initiative (Public Works: Arts & Humanities Connecting Communities) grant, “Panel Story: Photo Exhibition and Catalogue.” With photographer Jindřich Štreit. Summer-Fall 2019.
Carleton’s Mellon-funded initiative (Public Works: Arts & Humanities Connecting Communities) grant, “Panel Story: The Life of a Community.” With photographer Jindřich Štreit. Summer-Fall 2018.
Heldt Prize for the Best Book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women’s and Gender Studies for the year 2017, AWSS.
Research Fellowship, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, June 2015.
Presentations
“Gender in Study Abroad Programs.” NWSA conference. Roundtable discussion. Organizer and presenter. Baltimore, MD. November 2023.
“Trigger Warnings and Intergenerational Concerns Surrounding Academic Freedom.” NWSA conference. Roundtable discussion. Organizer and facilitator. Baltimore, MD. November 2023.
“Challenging Anti-Gender Campaigns and Right-Wing Populism in East Central Europe and India.” NWSA conference. Roundtable discussion. November 19, 2021.
“On Nostalgia, Haunting and the Emissary Role.” ISCHE conference “Spinning the Sticky Threads of Childhood Memories: From Cold War to Anthropocene.” October 20, 2021.
Czech Feminisms. The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, November 2, 2017. Organized by the Czech Academy of Sciences (the Institute of Sociology) and the Gender Studies Center.
“The European Dividend: Situating East-Central European Gender Issues.” Transylvania University, Lexington, KY. March 29, 2017. Invited speaker.
“Human Trafficking as Aberration: The Post-Cold War Reframing of Precarity.” With Jennifer Suchland. NOISE Summer School in WS: Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics. Feminist and Queer Interventions. Utrecht University, the Netherlands, August 26, 2015.
“On the Use of Post-Colonial Theory in Situating Eastern European Gender Issues: the Concept of the European Dividend.” The Association of Women in Slavic Studies Conference, Lexington, KY, March 3-5, 2015.
“Leading WGS Study Abroad Programs: Challenges and Opportunities.” The National Women’s Studies Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 15, 2014.
“Ibsen and the Actress: Hana Kvapilová in Ibsen’s Roles.” The First Actresses Symposium. The Ohio State University Theatre Department, Columbus, May 23-24, 2014.
“Vera Chytilová’s Fruit of Paradise: Feminism by Any Other Name.” The National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Cincinnati, November 7-10, 2013.
