Maciej Bakinowski

Maciej Bakinowski studied Comparative Literature and Political Science at LMU, where he also worked as a student assistant and tutor. He completed his bachelor's degree with a thesis on Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man (“The Body Electric”). His Master's thesis (“Sugar-Works. Towards a Poetics of Refinement”) was concerned with the imaginative potential of sugar in Toni Morrison’s and Roald Dahl’s prose. His research interests include psychoanalysis (esp. Freud and Winnicott), the poetics of transgenerational trauma, postcolonial theory, medical humanities, gastropoetics, queer studies and the poetics of community.

Since April 2024, he has been a research assistant at the Family Matters Research Training Group. His dissertation “Family Pathographies. HIV/Aids Constellations” is predicated on the observation that family and medical discourses are closely intertwined in literary history and addresses this nexus from one of the most complex junctures in the biopolitical power relations of recent history: The HIV/Aids crisis.

Articles, Essays, Miscellanea

• „Von Blättern und Blattern. Über Andreas Bernards ‚Die Kette der Infektionen. Zur Erzählbarkeit von Epidemien seit dem 18. Jahrhundert‘“, in: Weimarer Beiträge 70(2024)2, S. 314-320.

Talks and Conferences

• “Auntiebodies. Side-chains and collateral kinship in Hevé Guibert’s novels”. Sexualities. Genealogies of Queer Theory. Workshop organized by Jenny Willner and Maciej Bakinowski (Department of Comparative Literature at LMU Munich). 02/2025.
• “The Body and its Hi(v+)story”. Art. Power. Body. Corporeal Histories of the 20th Century. Seminar held by Marilisa Reisert (German Department at LMU Munich). 07/2024.
• “No 'Odyssey of reappropriation'. On Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother”. Strangeness. Seminar held by Dr. Lars Bullmann (Department of Comparative Literature at LMU Munich). 02/2024.
• “Nibble and Punish. Childhood, children's literature and colonialism”. Who’s looking back? Postcolonial perspectives on the Canon of German Literature. Seminar held by Rabea Conrad (German Department at LMU Munich). 01/2024.
• “Calling Back. Notes on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart”. Althusser's State Apparatuses Today. Workshop organized by Prof. Dr. Robert Stockhammer and Dr. Jenny Willner (Department of Comparative Literature at LMU Munich). 05/2022.