Karin Sellberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1357076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karin Sellberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karin |
| FAMILY NAME | Sellberg |
| SIGNATURE | SELLBERG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1371-9033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tracing Monsters
In ‘My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix’ (1994), Susan Stryker reclaims the word ‘monster’ to explore the physical and social/cultural/historical mutability of the transgender body. She argues that a performative ‘transgender rage’ propels a process of both positive and negative ‘mutation’ or change. In this article, I explore Stryker’s engagement with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and discourses of monstrosity in …
Project Monster
Categories such as 'monster' and 'freak' are used to define what is not normal in a community. However, the 'mass monsters' of the 1990s heralded an era in which monstrosity became normalised in bodybuilding. The mass monsters also brought with them aspects of monstrosity that were considered 'too monstrous' for mainstream bodybuilding. Efforts were made to contain these. But sometimes bodybuilding monstrosity cannot be contained. Sometimes the p…
Precarious futures
This article introduces the special issue of Continuum on ‘Precarious Futures: Cultural Studies in Pandemic Times’. The issue arises out of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference ‘Cultural Transformation’ held in December 2019, in Meanjin (Brisbane), on the land of the Jagera and Turrbal peoples. The articles in this special issue originate from this conference, and have thus been written and revised in the unusually difficult…
Medical humanities research showcase
This brief showcase of the medical humanities research networks and collaborations emerging at the University of Queensland explores the role this interdisciplinary field may play in post-pandemic Australasia. Suggesting that cultural, social and historical negotiations with medicine will become increasingly important as our societies recover from the COVID-19 crisis, the showcase presents case studies and perspectives from medical educators and …
The Somatechnics of Life and Death
This article introduces the special issue of Australian Feminist Studies on The Somatechnics of Life and Death. The issue emerges out of the 10th International Somatechnics Conference held in December 2016 on beautiful Bundjalung country in Byron Bay. Building on the conference theme, ‘Technicity, Temporality, Embodiment’, this special issue explores current trends in feminist and gender studies scholarship on the nature of ‘life’ and ‘death’. Ke…
The 'Turns' of Feminist Time
Contemporary feminist philosophy classically tends to reject ideas of historical and biological progress as patriarchal and/or capitalist constructs of temporality. Lately, however, the new materialism in feminism attempts to ‘recover’ the writings of Charles Darwin and evolutionary science, constructing a non-teleological and anti-essentialist feminist theory of mutability, transversality and trans-species connection. Referring to the work of El…
The Somatechnics of Breath
In this interview, trans* studies historian and theorist Susan Stryker reflects on the possibilities of trans*-breath-as-revolution and the reality of trans* lives in the wake of the Trump election, originally discussed in a keynote lecture given for the 10th International Somatechics Conference in December 2016. Speaking two years after presenting the keynote, Stryker describes how 'breath', as well as discourses of violence, oppression and resi…
The History of British Women's Writing, 1970-Present
Despite decades of hard work in feminist literary academia, the task of integrating women’s writing into the literary canon still has some way to go. Women’s writing tends to be presented as a sub
The subjective cut
This article considers the way in which ethical concerns about sex reassignment surgery and especially the research and clinical practice of the sexologist Dr John Money (1921-2006) is being negotiated in the 1960s and 1970s novels Myra Breckinridge and Myron by Gore Vidal and The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter. Drawing on the theories of gender and embodiment developed by Money, the article reads the novels as a critical response and discur…
The Feminine Subject
Queer (Mis)Representations of Early Modern Sexual Monsters
This chapter investigates Thomas Laqueur’s Making Sex, Stephen Orgel’s Impersonations, and Stephen Greenblatt’s ‘Fiction and Friction’. These scholars provide a reading of early modern scientific discussions of ‘sexual monsters’, such as hermaphrodites, which arguably could be construed as an historically validated alternative, destabilizing the discourse of rigid categorical differentiation and heterosexual imperative. According to Laqueur, Orge…
The Philosophy of ‘The Gap’
The title of this article is multi-faceted: the ‘gap’ is the name attributed to a hollow space between the thighs that has become an essential part of the contemporary female body beautiful, but my usage also indicates the disparity between different feminist discourses of libratory corporeality and excessive body fat. Considering a somatechnical approach to body fat in terms of Foucauldian dispositifs, it investigates discourses of fat and discu…
The Somatechnics of Movement
Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages
Intersectionality and dissensus
Purpose - The paper aims to examine the potential feminist politics of teaching: is there a clear connection between feminism and teaching, and is there a particular feminist way of teaching? Through notions of engaged political pedagogy (as developed by bell hooks Jacques Ranciére), it proposes an intersectional and dissensual approach to teaching, as a primary way of practising feminist politics within academia. Design/methodology/approach - Th…
Transitions and Transformations
Rosi Braidotti (2002) Metamorphoses
Forska på Teknis går bra - sedan kommer problemen
I fyra artiklar som baseras på empiriska undersökningar och egna erfarenheter beskrivs och diskuteras situationen för de kvinnliga forskarna och forskarstuderandena vid universiteten. Karen Davies kartlägger kvinnornas successiva bortfall i en 'smalnande pyramid' inom utbildningssystemet. Rigmor Sylvén tar upp några konkreta orsaker till bortfallet: problemen med ekonomi och oförstående handledare drabbar kvinnorna hårdast. Genom djupintervjuer h…
The Somatechnics of Breath
In this interview, trans* studies historian and theorist Susan Stryker reflects on the possibilities of trans*-breath-as-revolution and the reality of trans* lives in the wake of the Trump election, originally discussed in a keynote lecture given for the 10th International Somatechics Conference in December 2016. Speaking two years after presenting the keynote, Stryker describes how 'breath', as well as discourses of violence, oppression and resi…
Transitions and Transformations
The 'Turns' of Feminist Time
Contemporary feminist philosophy classically tends to reject ideas of historical and biological progress as patriarchal and/or capitalist constructs of temporality. Lately, however, the new materialism in feminism attempts to ‘recover’ the writings of Charles Darwin and evolutionary science, constructing a non-teleological and anti-essentialist feminist theory of mutability, transversality and trans-species connection. Referring to the work of El…
Intersectionality and dissensus
Purpose - The paper aims to examine the potential feminist politics of teaching: is there a clear connection between feminism and teaching, and is there a particular feminist way of teaching? Through notions of engaged political pedagogy (as developed by bell hooks Jacques Ranciére), it proposes an intersectional and dissensual approach to teaching, as a primary way of practising feminist politics within academia. Design/methodology/approach - Th…
Forska på Teknis går bra - sedan kommer problemen
I fyra artiklar som baseras på empiriska undersökningar och egna erfarenheter beskrivs och diskuteras situationen för de kvinnliga forskarna och forskarstuderandena vid universiteten. Karen Davies kartlägger kvinnornas successiva bortfall i en 'smalnande pyramid' inom utbildningssystemet. Rigmor Sylvén tar upp några konkreta orsaker till bortfallet: problemen med ekonomi och oförstående handledare drabbar kvinnorna hårdast. Genom djupintervjuer h…
Rosi Braidotti (2002) Metamorphoses
Transitions and Transformations
Intersectionality and dissensus
Purpose - The paper aims to examine the potential feminist politics of teaching: is there a clear connection between feminism and teaching, and is there a particular feminist way of teaching? Through notions of engaged political pedagogy (as developed by bell hooks Jacques Ranciére), it proposes an intersectional and dissensual approach to teaching, as a primary way of practising feminist politics within academia. Design/methodology/approach - Th…
Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages
The Philosophy of ‘The Gap’
The title of this article is multi-faceted: the ‘gap’ is the name attributed to a hollow space between the thighs that has become an essential part of the contemporary female body beautiful, but my usage also indicates the disparity between different feminist discourses of libratory corporeality and excessive body fat. Considering a somatechnical approach to body fat in terms of Foucauldian dispositifs, it investigates discourses of fat and discu…
The Somatechnics of Movement
Queer (Mis)Representations of Early Modern Sexual Monsters
This chapter investigates Thomas Laqueur’s Making Sex, Stephen Orgel’s Impersonations, and Stephen Greenblatt’s ‘Fiction and Friction’. These scholars provide a reading of early modern scientific discussions of ‘sexual monsters’, such as hermaphrodites, which arguably could be construed as an historically validated alternative, destabilizing the discourse of rigid categorical differentiation and heterosexual imperative. According to Laqueur, Orge…
The subjective cut
This article considers the way in which ethical concerns about sex reassignment surgery and especially the research and clinical practice of the sexologist Dr John Money (1921-2006) is being negotiated in the 1960s and 1970s novels Myra Breckinridge and Myron by Gore Vidal and The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter. Drawing on the theories of gender and embodiment developed by Money, the article reads the novels as a critical response and discur…
The Feminine Subject
The History of British Women's Writing, 1970-Present
Despite decades of hard work in feminist literary academia, the task of integrating women’s writing into the literary canon still has some way to go. Women’s writing tends to be presented as a sub
The Somatechnics of Life and Death
This article introduces the special issue of Australian Feminist Studies on The Somatechnics of Life and Death. The issue emerges out of the 10th International Somatechnics Conference held in December 2016 on beautiful Bundjalung country in Byron Bay. Building on the conference theme, ‘Technicity, Temporality, Embodiment’, this special issue explores current trends in feminist and gender studies scholarship on the nature of ‘life’ and ‘death’. Ke…
The 'Turns' of Feminist Time
Contemporary feminist philosophy classically tends to reject ideas of historical and biological progress as patriarchal and/or capitalist constructs of temporality. Lately, however, the new materialism in feminism attempts to ‘recover’ the writings of Charles Darwin and evolutionary science, constructing a non-teleological and anti-essentialist feminist theory of mutability, transversality and trans-species connection. Referring to the work of El…
The Somatechnics of Breath
In this interview, trans* studies historian and theorist Susan Stryker reflects on the possibilities of trans*-breath-as-revolution and the reality of trans* lives in the wake of the Trump election, originally discussed in a keynote lecture given for the 10th International Somatechics Conference in December 2016. Speaking two years after presenting the keynote, Stryker describes how 'breath', as well as discourses of violence, oppression and resi…
Precarious futures
This article introduces the special issue of Continuum on ‘Precarious Futures: Cultural Studies in Pandemic Times’. The issue arises out of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference ‘Cultural Transformation’ held in December 2019, in Meanjin (Brisbane), on the land of the Jagera and Turrbal peoples. The articles in this special issue originate from this conference, and have thus been written and revised in the unusually difficult…
Medical humanities research showcase
This brief showcase of the medical humanities research networks and collaborations emerging at the University of Queensland explores the role this interdisciplinary field may play in post-pandemic Australasia. Suggesting that cultural, social and historical negotiations with medicine will become increasingly important as our societies recover from the COVID-19 crisis, the showcase presents case studies and perspectives from medical educators and …
Project Monster
Categories such as 'monster' and 'freak' are used to define what is not normal in a community. However, the 'mass monsters' of the 1990s heralded an era in which monstrosity became normalised in bodybuilding. The mass monsters also brought with them aspects of monstrosity that were considered 'too monstrous' for mainstream bodybuilding. Efforts were made to contain these. But sometimes bodybuilding monstrosity cannot be contained. Sometimes the p…
Tracing Monsters
In ‘My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix’ (1994), Susan Stryker reclaims the word ‘monster’ to explore the physical and social/cultural/historical mutability of the transgender body. She argues that a performative ‘transgender rage’ propels a process of both positive and negative ‘mutation’ or change. In this article, I explore Stryker’s engagement with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and discourses of monstrosity in …
Sociology (14 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)