Jana Kukaine

Jana Kukaine is an Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher at Riga Stradins University, Faculty of Social Sciences. She is the author of the monograph Lovely Mothers. Woman. Body. Subjectivity (2016), a pioneering feminist study on motherhood in Latvian contemporary art, and Visceral Aesthetics: Affects and Feminist Art in Postsocialism, where she introduces an innovative framework of viscerality for art research.