Ewelina Jarosz (she/they) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Research at the University of the National Education Commission, Kraków (UKEN), Poland. She is an art historian, cultural researcher, and collaborative artist whose work explores the intersections of environmental art, queer feminist blue posthumanities, hydrofeminism, and more-than-human relations. Their research and writing engage with environmental art, blue media, hydrosexuality, queer ecologies, and the activism of pleasure, with a particular interest in the transformative potential of artistic practices and interdisciplinary collaboration.
A two-time recipient of a Kosciuszko Foundation fellowship, Jarosz collaborates with the E.A.R.T.H. Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and The Posthumanities Hub at Linköping University, Sweden. They are a member of the artistic-research duo cyber_nymphs, co-founder of the Blue Humanities Archive, and a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).
Together with Justyna Górowska and international collaborators, Jarosz has contributed to the development of the Hydrosexual Movement in the Arts, exploring water-based intimacies, ecological care, multispecies relationships, and pleasure as a transformative force in environmental art and activism. Their artistic-research practice includes the Cyber Wedding to the Brine Shrimp (Great Salt Lake, 2021), the ongoing Hydrosexual Clinics (2024–2026), and the developing project Baltic Divorce with Toxic Humanity.
Their current work also addresses accessibility in art and culture, bringing disability perspectives, intimacy access, and wet cripistemologies into dialogue with queer feminist environmental humanities.
Selected publications
Jarosz, E. Reimagining Desire: Inside the Hydrosexual Movement in the Arts, in: Sinnesmeer. Den Ostseeraum erfahrbar machen / Sense the Baltic. Experiencing a Maritime Landscape, “Fühlen” section, available online: https://sinnesmeer.ifzo.uni-greifswald.de/main.html?node=Jarosz (accessed April 6, 2026).
Jarosz, E. Loving the Brine Shrimp: Exploring Queer Feminist Blue Posthumanities to Reimagine the ‘America’s Dead Sea’. J Agric Environ Ethics 38, 1 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-024-09934-0
Link: https://rdcu.be/d1gVO
Jarosz, E. Exposing Diving into the Wreck of the Capitalocene Academy: The Blue Turn in Culture Studies Education in Poland. Elementy Magazine, 7 (2024). https://elementymag.art/en/eksponujac-zejscie-do-wraku-akademii-kapitalocenu-blekitny-zwrot-w-edukacji-kulturoznawczej-w-polsce/
Jarosz, E. Exploring ‘Ecosexuality’ As A Manual For Transdisciplinary Art & Research Practices And A Creative Concept for More-Than-Human Humanities. A Book Review Essay of Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens With Jennie Klein’s Assuming The Ecosexual Position: The Earth As Lover (University Of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis–London 2021), “Przegląd Kulturoznawczy”, Nr 1 (59) 2024, S. 246–265 Doi: 10.4467/20843860pk.24.015.20081
Stephens, B., Górowska, J., Jarosz, E., & Sprinkle, A. (2024). Making a splash: when ecosexual and hydrosexual unite in conversation. Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, (63).
Link: https://www.benedettapanisson.com/news/antennae-issue-63-queering-nature-curated-by-giovanni-aloi
Jarosz, E. “Ecosexuality: art practices for queering the Earth, healing and recovering”, published in Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Human Rights and Health, edited by C. Loggie, P. Aggleton, and R. Parker (Taylor & Frances 2024).
Keywords: Feminist queer blue posthumanities, queer ecologies, more-than-human sexualities