Libora Oates-Indruchová
Professor of Gender Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Graz, Austria
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Libora Oates-Indruchová studied literary and cultural theory and obtained a PhD in English from the University of Lancaster, U.K., and a habilitation in Literary and Cultural Studies from Szeged University, Hungary. She also studied Gender Studies in a non-degree postgraduate programme at the Central European University in Hungary. Her research focuses on late state-socialist Czech and Central European culture and on the development of gender studies in postsocialism.
Before coming to Graz, she directed the PhD in Sociology at Palacký University in Olomouc and led the research field “Communist and Postcommunist Times in Central Europe” at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres in Vienna, Austria. She has taught at Charles University, Pardubice University, Masaryk University and Szeged University, and held research fellowships and scholarships at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki; Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (Andrew Mellon Fellowship); Collegium Budapest/Institute for Advanced Study; and Central European University in Budapest. Her research has been funded, among others, by the European Commission (Marie Curie Fellowship), the Czech Science Foundation, Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, Andrew Mellon Foundation, Open Society Foundation, and the British Council.
Research interests:
- Gender and everyday creativity
- Cultural representations of gender
- Gender and social change
- Censorship
- Narrative research
Doctoral supervision:
I am particularly - but not exclusively - interested in qualitative research in the field of sociology and cultural representations of gender that prove to be compatible with my research area.
Membership in Academic Boards:
- Full member of the Kuratorium of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), reporter for Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
- Chair of the Curriculum Commitee for the MA in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Graz
- Coordination Centre for Gender Studies and Equal Opportunities, University of Graz
- Academic Board of the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague
- International Editorial Board member, European Journal of Women's Studies
Recent publications:
- Censorship in Czech and Hungarian Academic Publishing, 1969-89: Snakes and Ladders (Bloomsbury 2020)
- Creative Families: Gender and Technologies of Everyday Life, co-edited by Jana Mikats, Susanne Kink-Hampersberger, and Libora Oates-Indruchová, Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference (2021).
Research projects (ongoing):
- The History of Feminist Political Thought and Women’s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929-2001 (HERESSEE), ERC Starting Grant, Grant holder and lead: Zsófia Lóránd, University of Vienna. Core team member (without employment contract). 2023-2028
- COST Action CA20105, Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change
Research projects (completed):
- Everyday Creativity in (Post)socialism (Elisabeth List Fellowship)
- GenderedCoronaTime (exploratory phase launched in April 2020): a team of 11 sociologists from Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Romania, Sweden and the UK investigate the impact the COVID-19 crisis has had on the time-use in families with schoolchildren.
- Strengthening Higher Education Capacities in Palestine for Gender Equality (SHE_GE), Academic Cooperation grant, Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education and Research for Development, project leader for the Austrian partner, University of Graz (grant holder: Islamic University of Gaza). (2017-2020). Project homepage: www.appear.at/she-ge
- Remote Mentoring für Mädchen beim Programmieren-Lernen mit Pocket Code, Netidee programme of the Internet Privatstiftung Austria, project partner (grant holder: Graz University of Technology). (2017-2018). Project homepage: https://www.netidee.at/remotementor
- Border Communities: Microstudies in Everyday Life, Politics and Memory in European Societies from 1945 to the Present; 2010-12 (research management).
- Transformation on gender culture in the Czech Republic 1948-1989; 2009-2011.
- Academic Censorship under State Socialism: Czech Republic and Hungary; 2008-09.
- Educational choices and anticipation of chances on the labour market from a gender perspective; 2007-08.
- Models of Consumption and Cultural Identity Across Eastern & Western Europe: Conflict or Challenge?; 2004-05.
- Self-censorship and “text coding” of academic texts during Normalisation, 1968-1989; 2003-04.
- Body Production under State Socialism; 1999-2000.
- Democratisation, Social and Political Change and Women's Movements; 1994-95