About Marion Wasserbauer

Marion Wasserbauer (she/her) is a guest lecturer at the department of communication studies. In june 2018, she obtained her PhD in the social sciences with her research Queer Voices: Exploring the Roles of Music in LGBTQ Lives. This multidisciplinary research includes following topics: LGBTQs (in Flanders), LGBT and Queer theory, gender and feminist theory, oral history, identity(-formation), media- and literary theory. Discover the life stories on music and being LGBTQ on the Queer Voices homepage.

After completing her PhD, she worked on a research project focussing on the experiences of LGBTQ persons with a migration background in Flanders and Brussels: http://rootsandrainbows.mystrikingly.com/

Starting from october 2020, she works on intersex and transgender topics as a post-doc researcher at Radboud UMC (Nijmegen).

Together with Alexander Dhoest, she coordinates the LGBTQ Forum, a network for academics and members of LGBTQ-related organisations in Flanders.

The interaction of the academic, activist and personal life spheres is another topic of interest: Academia and Identity - when Research meets Activism. Experiences, opinions, insights and outlooks.

Department

• Department of Communication Studies

Statute & functions

Bijzonder academisch personeel

• gastprofessor

Internal mandates

bestuursorgaan bestuursmandaat

• Opleidingscommissie master i/d Communicatiewetenschappen (effectief stemgerechtigd lid)
• Opleidingscommissie master i/d Filmstudies en de Visuele Cultuur (effectief stemgerechtigd lid)