Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens
Associate Professor

Elizabeth Stephens

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Background

Elizabeth Stephens is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Communication and Arts. She was previously an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (UQ, 2017-2021), Associate Dean Research at Southern Cross University (2014-2017), and an ARC Australian Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses (UQ, 2010-2014). Her background is in gender and sexuality studies, and her current research focuses on three interconnected themes:

  • popular histories and representations of science, medicine and technology
  • collaborations between the arts and sciences
  • the critical medical humanities

Elizabeth is author of over 100 publications, including three monographs: A Critical Genealogy of Normality (University of Chicago Press, 2017), co-authored with Peter Cryle; Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present (Liverpool University Press, 2011), and Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet's Fiction (Palgrave 2009). She has published over 75 research articles and chapters, as well as non-traditional outputs including catalogue essays and curated exhibitions.

She welcomes inquiries from potential PhD students, and can offer supervision in the following areas:

  • cultural studies of science, medicine and/or technology
  • art/science collaboration
  • medical humanities
  • digital cultures
  • gender and sexuality studies

Availability

Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Fields of research

History and philosophy of specific fields Literary studies

Research interests

  • Collaboration between the arts and sciences

  • History of science, technology and medicine

  • Gender and sexuality studies

  • Science and technology studies

Search Professor Elizabeth Stephens’s works on UQ eSpace

114 works between 1997 and 2024
All (114) Journal Article (56) Book Chapter (33) Conference Publication (17) Book (5) Other Outputs (3)

41 - 60 of 114 works

2019

Book Chapter

Affect and automation: a critical geneology of the emotions

Stephens, Elizabeth (2019). Affect and automation: a critical geneology of the emotions. Emotions in late modernity. (pp. 176-189) edited by Roger Patulny, Alberto Bellocchi, Rebecca E. Olson, Sukhmani Khorana, Jordan McKenzie and Michelle Peterie. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781351133319-16

Affect and automation: a critical geneology of the emotions

2018

Conference Publication

Flesh machines and mutant bodies: Australian feminist experimental and bio-art

Stephens, Elizabeth (2018). Flesh machines and mutant bodies: Australian feminist experimental and bio-art. Society for the Social Studies of Science, Sydney, NSW Australia, 10-14 September 2018.

Flesh machines and mutant bodies: Australian feminist experimental and bio-art

2018

Conference Publication

The figure of the young-girl and critiques of normalisation in post-election USA

Stephens, Elizabeth (2018). The figure of the young-girl and critiques of normalisation in post-election USA. Crossroads in Cultural Studies Biennial Conference, Shanghai, China, 12-15 August 2018.

The figure of the young-girl and critiques of normalisation in post-election USA

2018

Journal Article

Feminist philosophies of life: new perspectives and directions

Stephens, Elizabeth (2018). Feminist philosophies of life: new perspectives and directions. Australian Feminist Studies, 33 (97), 417-422. doi: 10.1080/08164649.2018.1556087

Feminist philosophies of life: new perspectives and directions

2018

Conference Publication

Future remains: reanimation and post-natural biologies in art/science

Stephens, Elizabeth (2018). Future remains: reanimation and post-natural biologies in art/science. Society for Literature, Science and Art, Copenhagen, Sweden, 13-16 June 2018.

Future remains: reanimation and post-natural biologies in art/science

2018

Other Outputs

Patricia Piccinini, Curious Affection: panel discussion and Mary Shelley's legacy public lecture

Clement, Jennifer, Armstrong, Aurelia, Piccinini, Patricia, Sellberg, Karin, O'Connell, Lisa, Stephens, Elizabeth and Gatens, Moira (2018). Patricia Piccinini, Curious Affection: panel discussion and Mary Shelley's legacy public lecture. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: QAGOMA and The University of Queensland.

Patricia Piccinini, Curious Affection: panel discussion and Mary Shelley's legacy public lecture

2018

Book Chapter

Normality

Stephens, Elizabeth (2018). Normality. Gender: Time. (pp. na-na) edited by Karin Sellberg. Farmington Hills, United States: Macmillan.

Normality

2018

Book Chapter

The normal body on display: public exhibitions of the Norma and Normman statues

Stephens, Elizabeth (2018). The normal body on display: public exhibitions of the Norma and Normman statues. The Routledge companion to media, sex and sexuality. (pp. 7-18) edited by Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood and Brian McNair. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315168302-2

The normal body on display: public exhibitions of the Norma and Normman statues

2018

Book Chapter

'Unhallowed arts': or, the science of making monsters

Stephens, Elizabeth (2018). 'Unhallowed arts': or, the science of making monsters. Unhallowed arts. (pp. 119-127) edited by Laetitia Wilson, Oron Catts and Eugenio Viola. Perth, Australia: UWA Publishing.

'Unhallowed arts': or, the science of making monsters

2017

Journal Article

Eugenics and the normal body: the role of visual images and intelligence testing in framing the treatment of people with disabilities in the early twentieth century

Stephens, Elizabeth and Cryle, Peter (2017). Eugenics and the normal body: the role of visual images and intelligence testing in framing the treatment of people with disabilities in the early twentieth century. Continuum, 31 (3), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2016.1275126

Eugenics and the normal body: the role of visual images and intelligence testing in framing the treatment of people with disabilities in the early twentieth century

2016

Journal Article

Technicity, temporality, embodiment: guest editors’ introduction

Aghtan, Kamillea, Ford, Akkadia, Kerruish, Erika, Olive, Rebecca, Sellberg, Karin and Stephens, Elizabeth (2016). Technicity, temporality, embodiment: guest editors’ introduction. Australian Feminist Studies, Virtual Special Issue

Technicity, temporality, embodiment: guest editors’ introduction

2016

Journal Article

Review of Gut Feminism, by Elizabeth Wilson

Stephens, Elizabeth (2016). Review of Gut Feminism, by Elizabeth Wilson. Australian Humanities Review (59), 271-275.

Review of Gut Feminism, by Elizabeth Wilson

2016

Journal Article

Geocorpographies of Commemoration, Repression and Resistance

Stephens, Elizabeth, Gustavson, Malena and Simon, Jane (2016). Geocorpographies of Commemoration, Repression and Resistance. Somatechnics, 6 (1), V-V. doi: 10.3366/soma.2016.0169

Geocorpographies of Commemoration, Repression and Resistance

2016

Journal Article

Review of Gut Feminism by Elizabeth Wilson Duke University Press, 240pp, 2015 ISBN 9780822359708

Stephens, Elizabeth (2016). Review of Gut Feminism by Elizabeth Wilson Duke University Press, 240pp, 2015 ISBN 9780822359708. Australian Humanities Review, 59, 271-275.

Review of Gut Feminism by Elizabeth Wilson Duke University Press, 240pp, 2015 ISBN 9780822359708

2016

Book Chapter

We have always been robots: a brief history of robots and art

Stephens, Elizabeth and Heffernan, Tara (2016). We have always been robots: a brief history of robots and art. Robots and art: an unlikely symbiosis. (pp. 29-45) edited by Damith Herath, Christian Kroos and Stelarc. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-0321-9_3

We have always been robots: a brief history of robots and art

2015

Journal Article

Editorial

Gustavson, Malena and Stephens, Elizabeth (2015). Editorial. Somatechnics, 5 (2), V-V. doi: 10.3366/soma.2015.0155

Editorial

2015

Journal Article

"Dead eyes open": the role of experiments in galvanic reanimation in nineteenth-century popular culture

Stephens, Elizabeth (2015). "Dead eyes open": the role of experiments in galvanic reanimation in nineteenth-century popular culture. Leonardo and Leonardo Music Journal, 48 (3), 276-278. doi: 10.1162/LEON_a_01031

"Dead eyes open": the role of experiments in galvanic reanimation in nineteenth-century popular culture

2015

Book Chapter

Making monsters: bio-engineering and visual arts practice

Stephens, Elizabeth (2015). Making monsters: bio-engineering and visual arts practice. Corporeality and culture: bodies in movement. (pp. 53-66) edited by Karin Sellberg and Lena Wånggren. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Making monsters: bio-engineering and visual arts practice

2014

Journal Article

Review of The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes

Stephens, Elizabeth (2014). Review of The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 69 (4), 672-673. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrt050

Review of The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes

2014

Journal Article

Anatomical dissection in enlightenment England and beyond: autopsy, pathology, and display

Stephens, Elizabeth (2014). Anatomical dissection in enlightenment England and beyond: autopsy, pathology, and display. Isis, 105 (2), 419-420. doi: 10.1086/677987

Anatomical dissection in enlightenment England and beyond: autopsy, pathology, and display

Past funding

  • 2021 - 2025
    A cultural and intellectual history of automated labour (ARC Discovery Project administered by University of Western Australia)
    University of Western Australia
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2022
    Understanding Collaboration Between the Arts and Science
    ARC Future Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2012
    ResTeach Funding 2012 0.1 FTE School of LCCS
    UQ ResTeach
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2013
    The cultural impact of biotechnologies: Critical and creative perspectives
    UWA-UQ Bilateral Research Collaboration Award
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2012
    Uses of New Medical Imaging Technologies in Clinical, Commercial and Cultural Contexts
    UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards - DVC(R) Funding
    Open grant
  • 2007
    Practices of Exhibiting Human Bodies in Anatomy, Anthropology, and Ethnographic Collections at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
    UQ Travel Grants Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2005
    From Monsters to Freaks: Theories and Representations of Non-Normative Bodies From the Early Modern Period to the Present
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant
  • 2003 - 2004
    Metamorphosing Masculinties: Transformations in Contemproary Representations of the Male Body
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant

Availability

Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Detrans geographies: an exploration or borders and belonging

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Karin Sellberg

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Digital Arenas and Gendered Politics: Analyzing the Social Media Strategies of Female Politicians in the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) of South Sumatra, Indonesia

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    There Is No Outside: Art-Science Collaborations with Nonhumans in the Anthropocene

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Amelia Barikin

  • Doctor Philosophy

    There Is No Outside: Art-Science Collaborations with Nonhumans in the Anthropocene

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Amelia Barikin

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Sexual Science, Medicine, and Healthy Ageing in Historical Perspective (c. 1880-1970)

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Affective digital labour and FemTech

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Nicholas Carah

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Vibes, Flows, Feelings: Investigating the algorithmic techniques of affective capitalism

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Nicholas Carah

  • Master Philosophy

    With Colleagues Like These: AI in the Workplace, On and Off Screen

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Jason Jacobs

  • Master Philosophy

    "The Problem of Living"; and "Sense and Insensibility: Pain, Trauma and the Limits of First-Person Narrative in Creative Non-Fiction"

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Tom Doig

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Representations of Sexual Trauma in American Women's Life Writing

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Karin Sellberg

Completed supervision

Enquiries

Contact Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens directly for media enquiries about:

  • Gender and digital culture
  • Health and medical humanities
  • Histories of science medicine and technology
  • Popular cultures of science and medicine

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