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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
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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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2013
Book
Northern light. Volume 5, New writing 2012-13
Karin Sellberg and Linda Tym eds. (2013). Northern light. Volume 5, New writing 2012-13. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK: Scottish Universities' International Summer School (SUISS) Publications.
2013
Book Chapter
Foreword
Sellberg, Karin and Tym, Linda (2013). Foreword. Northern Light: New Writing 2012-2013. A collection of poetry, prose and essays from the 2012–13 Scottish Universities' International Summer School in Edinburgh, Scotland. (pp. 1-2) edited by Karin Sellberg and Linda Tym. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK: Scottish Universities' International Summer School (SUISS) Publications.
2013
Book Chapter
The dismemberment of will: early modern fear of castration
Sellberg, Karin and Wånggren, Lena (2013). The dismemberment of will: early modern fear of castration. Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages. (pp. 295-313) edited by Larissa Tracy. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer.
2012
Book Chapter
Transgender identity and passing authentically: comments on Christine Overall's "Gender, Aspirational Identity, and Passing"
Sellberg, Karin (2012). Transgender identity and passing authentically: comments on Christine Overall's "Gender, Aspirational Identity, and Passing". Passing/Out: Sexual Identity Veiled and Revealed. (pp. 223-227) edited by Dennis R. Cooley and Kelby Harrison. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing.
2012
Book Chapter
Transgender identity and passing authentically: a response to overall
Sellberg, Karin (2012). Transgender identity and passing authentically: a response to overall. Passing/Out: Sexual Identity Veiled and Revealed. (pp. 229-231) edited by Dennis R. Cooley and Kelby Harrison. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing.
2008
Journal Article
Rosi Braidotti (2002) Metamorphoses: Towards a Feminist Theory of Becoming, Cambridge: Polity Press. Rosi Braidotti (2006) Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Sellberg, Karin (2008). Rosi Braidotti (2002) Metamorphoses: Towards a Feminist Theory of Becoming, Cambridge: Polity Press. Rosi Braidotti (2006) Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics, Cambridge: Polity Press.. Deleuze Studies, 2 (Suppl), 137-140. doi: 10.3366/E1750224108000408
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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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
Representations of Sexual Trauma in American Women's Life Writing
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens
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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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