Dr. B. (Balázs) Boross
Assistant Professor in Gender, Health and Cross-Media
Faculty of Humanities
Departement Mediastudies
Visiting address
- Kloveniersburgwal 48
- Room number: 1.13
Postal address
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Postbus 94550
1090 GN Amsterdam
Contact details
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Publications
2026
- Boross, B. (2026). For adults only? Childhood, liminality and the queer unqueering of drag. Journal of Gender Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2026.2665800
- Guo, Y., & Boross, B. (2026). Skin-on-skin: Silicone nipple covers and the aesthetics of natural beauty in contemporary Chinese fashion culture. International Journal of Fashion Studies, 13(1), 105-122. https://doi.org/10.1386/infs_00145_1 [details]
2024
- Boross, B. (2024). Queering babies: (Auto)ethnographic reflections from a gay parent through surrogacy. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00482-0
Boross, B. (2024). Televisual transformations: The making of (media) citizens in interventional television productions. Critical Studies in Television, 19(2), 141-162. https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020221130256 [details]
2023
- Rahbari, L., Kavka, M., Paisley, E., Zimmann, L., Mercier, F., & Boross, B. (2023). Roundtable: Affordances, Diversity, and Inclusion on Dating Apps - A Dialogue between Sociologists and Media Studies Researchers about ‘Hinge’. DiGeSt Journal for Gender and Diversity Studies, 10(1), 7-17. https://doi.org/10.21825/digest.87181 [details]
2022
- Reijnders, S., Boross, B., & Balan, V. (2022). Beyond the Tourist Experience: Analyzing the Imagination of Place and Travel in Everyday Life. Tourism, Culture and Communication, 22(1), 31-44. https://doi.org/10.3727/109830421X16262461231783 [details]
2019
- Boross, B., & Reijnders, S. (2019). Dating the Media: Participation, Voice, and Ritual Logic in the Disability Dating Show The Undateables. Television and New Media, 20(7), 720-738. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476418782184 [details]
- Schiavone, R., Reijnders, S., & Boross, B. (2019). Losing an imagined friend: Deriving meaning from fictional death in popular culture. Particip@tions, 16(2).
2017
- Boross, B., & Reijnders, S. (2017). ‘These cameras are here for a reason’ – media coming out, symbolic power and the value of ‘participation’: behind the scenes of the Dutch reality programme Uit de Kast. Media, Culture and Society, 39(2), 185-201. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443716643152
2015
- Boross, B., & Reijnders, S. (2015). Coming out with the media: The ritualization of self-disclosure in the Dutch television programme Uit de Kast. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 18(3), 245-264. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549414544120
2014
- Reijnders, S., Spijkers, M., Roeland, J., & Boross, B. (2014). Close encounters: Ritualizing proximity in the age of celebrity. An ethnographic analysis of meet-and-greets with Dutch singer Marco Borsato. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 17(2), 149-169. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549413508098
2006
- Boross, B. (2006). Kutatók, sztereotípiák és referenciarendszerek a moldvai csángó kultúrában. In B. Bako, L. Szarka, & R. Papp (Eds.), Mindennapi előítéletek. : Társadalmi távolságok és etnikai sztereotípiák (pp. 133-149). Balassi Kiadó.
2004
- Boross, B. (2004). Antropológiai módszerek, terepmunka és a „bevezető fejezetek”. Egy „módszertelen” tudomány megismerési „technikájához”. Kisebbségkutatás , 13(3).
2003
- Boross, B. (2003). Csango identitasok Pusztinan: Vallás és etnicitás összefüggései Moldvában egy antropológiai esettanulmány tükrében. In Etnikai kölcsönhatások és konfliktusok a Kárpát-medencében Gondolat Kiado.
2002
- Boross, B. (2002). „Majd egyszer lészen, de nem most”: Adalékok a moldvai csángók identitásának komplex valóságához egy kulturális antropológiai esettanulmány tükrében. Pro Minoritate, 2002(4).
Prize / grant
- Boross, B. (2024). Educational Innovation Grant.
- Boross, B. (2016). Dean’s Award for Interdisciplinary Excellence.
- Boross, B. (2014). Best Paper Award: Media and the Margins.
- Boross, B. (2012). NWO PhDs in the Humanities Grant.
Media appearance
- Boross, B. (25-01-2024). Charis McGowan, “From The Traitors to Big Brother: why is all our favourite reality TV Dutch?”, The Guardian, 25 January 2024. [Print] The Guardian. “From The Traitors to Big Brother: why is all our favourite reality TV Dutch?”.
- Boross, B. (28-03-2017). Onder Mediadoctoren – Uit de Kast. Onder Mediadoctoren – Uit de Kast.
Talk / presentation
- Boross, B. (speaker) (2025). Entertaining the fetus: Techno-Coloniality, the Bonding Imperative, and Emerging Forms of Mediated Intimacies in Surrogate Pregnancies, Console-ing Passions 2025: Reproductions, Atlanta.
- Boross, B. (speaker) (2025). Designed to be deleted? The one-for-me fantasy and the production of us on Hinge., Love at First Swipe? Public lecture at Studium Generale, Tilburg University.
- Boross, B. (speaker) (2025). The Great Un/Queering: On the Vulnerability of Imaginary Babies, (Trans—) Sexualities + Psychoanalysis Summer School.
- Boross, B. (speaker) (2016). Television culture and the myth of participation: re-making media rituals, 14th EASA Biennial Conference, Milan.
- Boross, B. (speaker) (2015). Ritual theory in media research: perspectives and methodological challenges, 25th Anniversary Conference, Department of Cultural Anthropology, ELTE University, Budapest.
- Boross, B. (speaker) (2015). ‘These cameras are here for a reason’: media coming out, symbolic power and the value of participation., International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Montreal.
Others
- Boross, B. (participant) (2027). Console-ing Passions 2027. Organising Committee, Console-ing Passions 2027: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
2021
- Boross, B. (2021). Inside Interventional Television: Media rituals in the age of participation. Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture.
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Ancillary activities
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Boross, B. (2024). Televisual transformations: The making of (media) citizens in interventional television productions. Critical Studies in Television, 19(2), 141-162.