Kaja Marczewska
University College London, Lccos, Department Member
- Coventry University, Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Faculty MemberDurham University, English Studies, Alumnus, and 3 moreadd
- 20th century Avant-Garde, Copyright and Literary Aesthetics, Intertextuality And Plagiarism, Plagiarism, Critical Theory, Appropriation, and 38 moreFound Footage, New Media, Collage, Conceptual Art, Avant-Garde, Digital Media, Digital Culture, English Studies, Small Press Publishing, Book Art, Artists' Books, Artists’ Books, Art writing, Artistic Research, Art Theory, Contemporary Art, Cultural Theory, Experimental Poetry, Concrete Poetry, Visual Poetry, Poetics, Independent/Alternitive publishing, Humanities Computing (Digital Humanities), Self-Publishing, Literature and Law, Curating, Curating contemporary art, Art History, Exhibition History, Museum and Curating Studies, Curatorial Studies and Practice, Curatorial Practice (Art), Museum Studies, Mseum collection, Archives, History of Archives, Libraries, Collecting and Collections, Special Collections, and Collections Managementedit
- I am a Special Collections Librarian at UCL, where curate rare printed collections and look after collections-based t... moreI am a Special Collections Librarian at UCL, where curate rare printed collections and look after collections-based teaching programmes. I held academic posts at Universities of Durham, Coventry, and Westminster, before focusing on collections-based research and practice, first the Victoria and Albert Museum and most recently The National Archives.
I completed my PhD at the Department of English Studies, Durham University, supervised by Professor Patricia Waugh and funded by the Von Huegel fellowship and the Durham Doctoral Studentship. I held visiting fellowships at the Eccles Centre, British Library, Dartmouth College, USA, the Getty, LA, Michigan State University, Sallie Bingham Centre at Duke University and was a Reese Fellow for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas (2018) and a Terra Foundation fellow (2018).
My work is positioned at the intersection of book, publishing and print cultures, cultural history, and visual cultures, with particular focus on experimental arts and writing, the small press and, more broadly, grassroots print and publishing cultures, DIY forms of cultural production, as well as the relationship between infrastructures, institutions and knowledge production. My current book project, under contract with Cambridge University Press, explores histories of small press distribution and forms of infrastructural activism which have historically and today supported circulation of independent and grassroots print and publishing.
A lot of my work also focuses on ways in which collections are activated in academic research. I am particularly interested in collections-based research methodologies and pedagogies and related transformations in the UK research landscape that the growth of Independent Research Organisations has encouraged.edit
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UK Premiere of Mark Amerika's mobile phone film and discussion between Amerika and Chris Meigh-Andrews.
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For including the passages quoted above, without acknowledgement, in their most recent novels, both Houellebecq and Hegemann faced accusations of plagiarism. In both cases, their creative practices were identified and brought to the... more
For including the passages quoted above, without acknowledgement, in their most recent novels, both Houellebecq and Hegemann faced accusations of plagiarism. In both cases, their creative practices were identified and brought to the public attention by bloggers in France and Germany, respectively; Houellebecq’s sources were revealed by Vincent Glad and discussed online on Slate.fr on September 2, 2010,5 and Hagemann’s by Deef Pirmasen in a blog post from February 5, 2010, on Die Gefuhlskonserve: As Seen in Real Life blog.6 There are further similarities: both authors refuted the indictments by claiming their plagiaries were not plagiaries at all but expressions of authentic, creative endeavors, reflecting current developments in the literary scene and beyond. Both received high critical acclaim for their writing; Hegemann as a finalist in the competition for the $20,000 Leipzig Book Fair prize for fiction and Houellebecq as a winner of 2010 Goncourt Prize. The general approach to the two publishing controversies raises questions about the notions of creativity and originality while also challenging accepted limits of literary influence, adaptation, and appropriation. Taking the debate surrounding the two literary cases as a starting point, this chapter looks at ways new technologies affect current approaches to concepts of originality, authorship, and creativity.