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Overview
Background
Karin Sellberg specialises in feminist and queer historiography, contemporary fiction and theories of gender, sexuality, embodiment and time. She is particularly interested in convergences and communication between feminist and queer fiction, and the intellectual history of science and medicine. She is currently working on transwomen's writing, transgender history, and ideas of a 'journey in trans* studies, feminist philosophy and the fiction of Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter and Caitlin R. Kiernan.
Karin joined UQ as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in January 2014, and a lecturer in humanities in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry in 2017. Before this she held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and a postdoctoral teaching fellowship in the English Literature department at the University of Edinburgh. She was also co-director of the Scottish Universities’ International Summer School from 2012 to 2014, and has organised four large international conferences, "Bodies in Movement: Intersecting Discourses of Materiality in the Sciences and the Arts" (University of Edinburgh), "Sensualising Deformity: Communication and Construction of Monstrous Embodiment" (University of Edinburgh), "Technicity, Temporality, Embodiment: the 10th Somatechnics Conference" (SCU/UQ) and the "CSAA Conference 2019: Cultural Transformations".
Availability
- Dr Karin Sellberg is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Qualifications
- Masters (Coursework), University of Edinburgh
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
- Postgraduate Diploma in Academic Practice, University of Edinburgh
- Higher Education Academy, Higher Education Academy
Research interests
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contemporary British and American literature
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medical humanities
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cultural studies
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gender studies
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transgender studies
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queer theory
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critical theory
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continental philosophy
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historiography
Works
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Featured
2016
Journal Article
The possibilities of feminist quantum thinking
Sellberg, Karin and Hinton, Peta (2016). The possibilities of feminist quantum thinking. Rhizomes: cultural studies in emerging knowledge (30). doi: 10.20415/rhiz/030.i01
Featured
2015
Book Chapter
Embodied platonisms: the erotic choreographies of Angela Carter and John Cameron Mitchell
Sellberg, Karin (2015). Embodied platonisms: the erotic choreographies of Angela Carter and John Cameron Mitchell. Corporeality and culture: bodies in movement. (pp. 95-108) edited by Karin Sellberg, Lena Wanggren and Kamillea Aghtan. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate. doi: 10.4324/9781315574363-14
Featured
2015
Book Chapter
Beyond queer time after 9/11: the work of Jeanette Winterson
Sellberg, Karin (2015). Beyond queer time after 9/11: the work of Jeanette Winterson. Women's fiction and post-9/11 contexts. (pp. 65-79) edited by Peter Childs, Claire Colebrook and Sebastian Groes. Lanham, MD, United States: Lexington Books.
Featured
2015
Book Chapter
Queer (mis)representations of early modern sexual monsters
Sellberg, Karin (2015). Queer (mis)representations of early modern sexual monsters. Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past. (pp. 243-264) edited by Kate Fisher and Rebecca Langlands. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford Univerisity Press.
Featured
2015
Book
Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement
Karin Sellberg, Lena Wånggren and Kamillea Aghtan eds. (2015). Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement. Farnham, England: Ashgate.
Featured
2015
Book Chapter
Monsters, margins and corporealising choreographies
Sellberg, Karin (2015). Monsters, margins and corporealising choreographies. Corporeality and culture: bodies in movement. (pp. 47-52) edited by Karin Sellberg, Lena Wanggren and Kamillea Aghtan. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate.
Featured
2014
Journal Article
Being and Slime: An Alluvial Introduction
Sellberg, Karin and Aghtan, Kamillea (2014). Being and Slime: An Alluvial Introduction. InterAlia - A Journal of Queer Studies (9), 166-185.
Featured
2014
Journal Article
Fluid Fat: Considerations of Culture and Corporeality
Sellberg, Karin and Sellberg, Ann (2014). Fluid Fat: Considerations of Culture and Corporeality. InterAlia - A Journal of Queer Studies (9), 304-318.
Featured
2014
Journal Article
The philosophy of ‘The Gap’: feminist fat and corporeal (dis)connection
Sellberg, Karin (2014). The philosophy of ‘The Gap’: feminist fat and corporeal (dis)connection. Somatechnics, 4 (1), 95-107. doi: 10.3366/soma.2014.0114
Featured
2012
Journal Article
Intersectionality and dissensus: a negotiation of the feminist classroom
Wanggren, Lena and Sellberg, Karin (2012). Intersectionality and dissensus: a negotiation of the feminist classroom. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 31 (5-6), 542-555. doi: 10.1108/02610151211235514
Featured
2012
Book Chapter
Transgender identity and passing authentically. Pro-passing, transgender identity and literature: (post-)transexual politics and poetics of passing
Sellberg, Karin (2012). Transgender identity and passing authentically. Pro-passing, transgender identity and literature: (post-)transexual politics and poetics of passing. Passing/Out: Sexual Identity Veiled and Revealed. (pp. 211-219) edited by Dennis R. Cooley and Kelby Harrison. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing.
Featured
2012
Book Chapter
Slime and time: cannibalistic erotics at the limits of temporal transgression
Sellberg, Karin (2012). Slime and time: cannibalistic erotics at the limits of temporal transgression. Transgression and Its Limits. (pp. 121-132) edited by Matt Foley, Neil McRobert and Aspasia Stephanou. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Featured
2011
Journal Article
Sublime gender transposition: the reformed platonism of Jacques Rancière’s aesthetics as queer performance
Sellberg, Karin (2011). Sublime gender transposition: the reformed platonism of Jacques Rancière’s aesthetics as queer performance. Transformations (19).
Featured
2009
Journal Article
Transitions and transformation: from gender performance to becoming gendered
Sellberg, Karin (2009). Transitions and transformation: from gender performance to becoming gendered. Australian Feminist Studies, 24 (59), 71-84. doi: 10.1080/08164640802645158
2022
Other Outputs
Australasian Health and Medical Humanities: Work-in-Progress Series
Stephens, Elizabeth, Dickson, Melissa and Sellberg, Karin (2022, 08 15). Australasian Health and Medical Humanities: Work-in-Progress Series The polyphony: conversations across the medical humanities
2021
Journal Article
Australasian Health and Medical Humanities Network launch
Stephens, Elizabeth, Hooker, Claire, Hammerschlag, Keren, Carr, Sandra and Sellberg, Karin (2021). Australasian Health and Medical Humanities Network launch. Polyphony.
2020
Book Chapter
Corporeal Creativity and Queer Gaps in Time
Sellberg, Karin (2020). Corporeal Creativity and Queer Gaps in Time. How Literature Comes to Matter. (pp. 172-190) edited by Moslund, Sten Pultz, Marcussen, Marlene Karlsson and Pedersen, Martin Karlsson. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461313.003.0009
2020
Journal Article
Medical humanities research showcase: the emergence of a new trans-disciplinary field in a time of precarity
Sellberg, Karin, Stephens, Elizabeth, Efstathiadou, Anna, Pillai, Suja, Yamada, Kazuki and Wise, Beck (2020). Medical humanities research showcase: the emergence of a new trans-disciplinary field in a time of precarity. Continuum, 34 (6), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2020.1842121
2020
Journal Article
Precarious futures: cultural studies in pandemic times
Stephens, Elizabeth, Sellberg, Karin and Donaghy, Paige (2020). Precarious futures: cultural studies in pandemic times. Continuum, 34 (6), 807-815. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2020.1842120
2019
Journal Article
The ‘turns’ of feminist time: evolutionary logic, life and renewal in ‘new materialist’ feminist philosophy
Sellberg, Karin (2019). The ‘turns’ of feminist time: evolutionary logic, life and renewal in ‘new materialist’ feminist philosophy. Australian Feminist Studies, 34 (99), 93-106. doi: 10.1080/08164649.2019.1605488
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Representations of Sexual Trauma in American Women's Life Writing
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens
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Doctor Philosophy
Constructing Godly Queenship in Post-Reformation Europe
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr James Lancaster
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Doctor Philosophy
Detrans geographies: an exploration or borders and belonging
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens
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Doctor Philosophy
Re-stitching the Tapestry: Modern retellings of myth and fairy tale as feminist discourse
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lucy Fraser
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Cutting Emotions: Images of Holy Wounds in Emotional Communities of Germany, France and the Low Countries (1400-1550)
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Andrea Bubenik
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Uncertain Knowledge: False Conception and Molas in European Medicine, 1500-1800
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Lisa Featherstone, Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens
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2022
Master Philosophy
Desire: Disruptive Structures, Fragmented Narratives
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Bronwyn Lea
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
The Exclusion Zone: Poetry as Doing/Being
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Bronwyn Lea
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
How Did Child Sexual Offending by Women Come to Be an Unthinkable Crime? A Critical Genealogy
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Contemporary Women's Fantasy Novels and "Popular"(Post)Feminisms: Representations of Rape as the Undoing of Feminism.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Margaret Henderson
Media
Enquiries
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- History of Medicine
- LGBTQI Identity Politics
- Medical Ethics
- Transgender Identity
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