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Overview
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
Research interests
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Collaboration between the arts and sciences
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History of science, technology and medicine
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Gender and sexuality studies
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Science and technology studies
Works
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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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
2006
Book Chapter
Corporeographies: The dancing body in 'adame Miroir and Un chant d'amour
Stephens, E. A. (2006). Corporeographies: The dancing body in 'adame Miroir and Un chant d'amour. Genet: Politics and Performance. (pp. 159-168) edited by C. Finburgh, C. Lavery and M. Shevtsova. London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230595439
2006
Journal Article
Cultural fixions of the freak body: Coney Island and the postmodern sideshow
Stephens, Elizabeth (2006). Cultural fixions of the freak body: Coney Island and the postmodern sideshow. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 20 (4), 485-498. doi: 10.1080/10304310600988286
2005
Book Chapter
Un mur qui ne serait jamais abattu: Le bagne du desir dans Un chant d'amour
Stephens, E. A. (2005). Un mur qui ne serait jamais abattu: Le bagne du desir dans Un chant d'amour. Aimez-vous le queer?. (pp. 131-139) edited by Lawrence R Schehr. New York, U.S.A.: Rodopi. doi: 10.1163/9789004333024_010
2005
Book Chapter
Je suis un mensonge qui dit toujours la verite: Genet's Queer Subjectivities
Stephens, E. A. (2005). Je suis un mensonge qui dit toujours la verite: Genet's Queer Subjectivities. Soi-disant: Life-Writing in French. (pp. 41-52) edited by de Nooy, Juliana, Hardwick, Joe and Hanna, Barbara E.. Newark, USA: University of Delaware Press.
2005
Journal Article
Twenty First Century freak show: Recent transformations in the exhibition of non-normative bodies
Stephens, Elizabeth (2005). Twenty First Century freak show: Recent transformations in the exhibition of non-normative bodies. Disability Studies Quarterly, 25 (3 (Summer)), 1-8. doi: 10.18061/dsq.v25i3.580
2004
Journal Article
Disseminating phallic masculinity: Seminal fluidity in Genet's fiction
Stephens, E. (2004). Disseminating phallic masculinity: Seminal fluidity in Genet's fiction. Paragraph, 27 (2), 85-97. doi: 10.3366/para.2004.27.2.85
2003
Journal Article
Hadow/Stuart Short Story Award: Judge's report
Stephens, E. A. (2003). Hadow/Stuart Short Story Award: Judge's report. Martinata, 3, 8-8.
Funding
Current funding
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Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
There Is No Outside: Art-Science Collaborations with Nonhumans
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Amelia Barikin
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Doctor Philosophy
Detrans geographies: an exploration or borders and belonging
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Karin Sellberg
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Doctor Philosophy
Affective digital labour and FemTech
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Nicholas Carah
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Doctor Philosophy
Vibes, Flows, Feelings: Investigating the algorithmic techniques of affective capitalism
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Nicholas Carah
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Master Philosophy
With Colleagues Like These: AI in the Workplace, On and Off Screen
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Jason Jacobs
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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
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Doctor Philosophy
Representations of Sexual Trauma in American Women's Life Writing
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Karin Sellberg
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Doctor Philosophy
Sexual Science, Medicine, and Healthy Ageing in Historical Perspective (c. 1880-1970)
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Uncertain Knowledge: False Conception and Molas in European Medicine, 1500-1800
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Karin Sellberg, Professor Lisa Featherstone
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Casanova's Celebrity: a Case Study of Well-knownness in 18th-century Europe
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Joe Hardwick, Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle
Media
Enquiries
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- Gender and digital culture
- Health and medical humanities
- Histories of science medicine and technology
- Popular cultures of science and medicine
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