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)

81 - 100 of 114 works

2010

Journal Article

Venus in the archive: Anatomical waxworks of the pregnant body

Stephens, Elizabeth (2010). Venus in the archive: Anatomical waxworks of the pregnant body. Australian Feminist Studies, 25 (64), 133-145. doi: 10.1080/08164641003762453

Venus in the archive: Anatomical waxworks of the pregnant body

2010

Journal Article

Queer memoir: Public confession and/as sexual practice in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s A Dialogue on Love

Stephens, Elizabeth (2010). Queer memoir: Public confession and/as sexual practice in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s A Dialogue on Love. Australian Humanities Review (48), 31-40.

Queer memoir: Public confession and/as sexual practice in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s A Dialogue on Love

2009

Journal Article

Coining spermatorrhoea: Medicine and male body fluids, 1836-1866

Stephens, Elizabeth A. (2009). Coining spermatorrhoea: Medicine and male body fluids, 1836-1866. Sexualities, 12 (4), 467-485. doi: 10.1177/1363460709105713

Coining spermatorrhoea: Medicine and male body fluids, 1836-1866

2009

Book

Queer writing: Homoeroticism in jean genet's fiction

Stephens, Elizabeth (2009). Queer writing: Homoeroticism in jean genet's fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230271739

Queer writing: Homoeroticism in jean genet's fiction

2009

Book Chapter

Queer monsters: Technologies of self-transformation in Bulwer's Anthropometamorphosis and Braidotti's Metamorphoses

Stephens, Elizabeth A. (2009). Queer monsters: Technologies of self-transformation in Bulwer's Anthropometamorphosis and Braidotti's Metamorphoses. Somatechnics: Queering the technologisation of bodies. (pp. 171-186) edited by Nikki Sullivan and Samantha Murray. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate. doi: 10.4324/9781315609867-13

Queer monsters: Technologies of self-transformation in Bulwer's Anthropometamorphosis and Braidotti's Metamorphoses

2009

Book Chapter

Seminal Economies: the Homoerotics of Phallic Masculinity

Stephens, Elizabeth (2009). Seminal Economies: the Homoerotics of Phallic Masculinity. Seminal Economies: the Homoerotics of Phallic Masculinity. (pp. 96-+) BASINGSTOKE: PALGRAVE. doi: 10.1057/9780230271739_4

Seminal Economies: the Homoerotics of Phallic Masculinity

2009

Book Chapter

What Remains of the Author: The Subject in/of Writing

Stephens, Elizabeth (2009). What Remains of the Author: The Subject in/of Writing. What Remains of the Author: The Subject in/of Writing. (pp. 24-+) BASINGSTOKE: PALGRAVE. doi: 10.1057/9780230271739_2

What Remains of the Author: The Subject in/of Writing

2009

Book

Queer writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction

Stephens, Elizabeth A. (2009). Queer writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Queer writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction

2009

Book Chapter

Un Chant d'amour: Homoeroticism and the Closet of Language

Stephens, Elizabeth (2009). Un Chant d'amour: Homoeroticism and the Closet of Language. Un Chant d'amour: Homoeroticism and the Closet of Language. (pp. 62-+) BASINGSTOKE: PALGRAVE. doi: 10.1057/9780230271739_3

Un Chant d'amour: Homoeroticism and the Closet of Language

2009

Book Chapter

Towards an Ecriture Homosexuelle

Stephens, Elizabeth (2009). Towards an Ecriture Homosexuelle. Towards an Ecriture Homosexuelle. (pp. 138-+) BASINGSTOKE: PALGRAVE. doi: 10.1057/9780230271739_5

Towards an Ecriture Homosexuelle

2009

Book Chapter

Introduction

Stephens, Elizabeth (2009). Introduction. Queer Writing. (pp. 1-23) London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan . doi: 10.1057/9780230271739_1

Introduction

2008

Book Chapter

Redefining Sexual Excess as a Medical Disorder: Fin-de-Siecle Representations of Hysteria and Spermatorrhoea

Stephens, E. A. (2008). Redefining Sexual Excess as a Medical Disorder: Fin-de-Siecle Representations of Hysteria and Spermatorrhoea. Pleasure and Pain in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture. (pp. 201-212) edited by Evans, D. and Griffiths, K.. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Redefining Sexual Excess as a Medical Disorder: Fin-de-Siecle Representations of Hysteria and Spermatorrhoea

2008

Book Chapter

Flesh machines: self-making and the postmodern body

Stephens, E. A. (2008). Flesh machines: self-making and the postmodern body. Cultural Theory in Everyday Practice. (pp. 114-121) edited by Anderson, N. and Schlunke, K.. Melbourne: Oxford Journals, Oxford University Press.

Flesh machines: self-making and the postmodern body

2008

Journal Article

Pathologizing Leaky Male Bodies: Spermatorrhea in Nineteenth-Century British Medicine and Popular Anatomical Museums

Stephens, E. A. (2008). Pathologizing Leaky Male Bodies: Spermatorrhea in Nineteenth-Century British Medicine and Popular Anatomical Museums. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 17 (3), 421-438. doi: 10.1353/sex.0.0023

Pathologizing Leaky Male Bodies: Spermatorrhea in Nineteenth-Century British Medicine and Popular Anatomical Museums

2008

Book Chapter

Anatomies of Desire: Photographic Exhibitions of Female Bodies in Fin-de-Siecle Anatomical Museums

Stephens, E. A. (2008). Anatomies of Desire: Photographic Exhibitions of Female Bodies in Fin-de-Siecle Anatomical Museums. Sexuality at the Fin de Siècle: The Makings of a "Central Problem". (pp. 25-41) edited by P. M. Cryle and C. E. Forth. Newark, Delaware, USA: University of Delaware Press.

Anatomies of Desire: Photographic Exhibitions of Female Bodies in Fin-de-Siecle Anatomical Museums

2007

Journal Article

Inventing the bodily interior: Écorché figures in early modern anatomy and von Hagens' Body Worlds

Stephens, Elizabeth A. (2007). Inventing the bodily interior: Écorché figures in early modern anatomy and von Hagens' Body Worlds. Social Semiotics, 17 (3), 313-326. doi: 10.1080/10350330701448611

Inventing the bodily interior: Écorché figures in early modern anatomy and von Hagens' Body Worlds

2007

Journal Article

The spectacularized penis - Contemporary representations of the phallic male body

Stephens, Elizabeth (2007). The spectacularized penis - Contemporary representations of the phallic male body. Men and Masculinities, 10 (1), 85-98. doi: 10.1177/1097184X07299332

The spectacularized penis - Contemporary representations of the phallic male body

2007

Journal Article

Male bodies: An introduction

Stephens, E. and Lorentzen, J. (2007). Male bodies: An introduction. Men and Masculinities, 10 (1), 5-8. doi: 10.1177/1097184X07299325

Male bodies: An introduction

2007

Book Chapter

Queer writing: homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction

Stephens, Elizabeth (2007). Queer writing: homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction. Queer sexualities in French and Francophone literature and film. (pp. 129-144) edited by James Day. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Editions Rodopi. doi: 10.1163/9789401204903_011

Queer writing: homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction

2006

Journal Article

Bodies in translation: French feminist influences on anglophone feminist theory: Review article

Stephens, E. A. (2006). Bodies in translation: French feminist influences on anglophone feminist theory: Review article. Australian Feminist Studies, 21 (49), 107-111. doi: 10.1080/08164640500470727

Bodies in translation: French feminist influences on anglophone feminist theory: Review article

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

  • 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

  • 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

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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