Rate My Professor Karin Sellberg

Her research focuses on medical humanities, feminist and queer historiography, contemporary fiction, and theories of gender, sexuality, disability, embodiment, and time. She investigates convergences between feminist and queer fiction and the intellectual history of science and medicine, with ongoing work on transwomen's writing, transgender history, and transitioning concepts in trans* studies, feminist philosophy, and fiction by Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter, and Caitlin R. Kiernan. Sellberg has edited key volumes including Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement (Ashgate, 2015) with Lena Wånggren and Kamillea Aghtan, and Gender: Time (Macmillan Reference USA, 2018). Notable publications include “ ‘Project Monster’: exploring projects of monstrification in bodybuilding communities” (Body & Society, 2024, with Mair Underwood), “Corporeal Creativity and Queer Gaps in Time” (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), and “Newness, memory, and tradition in Karin Boye’s Moln (1922)” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). In 2018, she received a Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Teaching and Learning Award for outstanding examples of sustained excellence in teaching. Her contributions extend to co-organizing conferences like the 10th Somatechnics Conference and the CSAA Conference 2019: Cultural Transformations, influencing discussions in gender studies and cultural theory.