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Dr. Karin Sellberg is a Lecturer in Humanities at the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Queensland. She joined UQ as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in January 2014, and became a lecturer in humanities in 2017. Prior to this, she held postdoctoral research and teaching fellowships at the University of Edinburgh, where she was also co-director of the Scottish Universities' International Summer School from 2012 to 2014.
Her educational background includes:
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
- Master of Arts, University of Edinburgh
- Postgraduate Diploma in Academic Practice, University of Edinburgh
- Higher Education Academy certification
Dr. Sellberg specializes in feminist and queer historiography, contemporary fiction, and theories of gender, sexuality, embodiment, and time. She is particularly interested in convergences between feminist and queer fiction and the intellectual history of science and medicine. Her current research focuses 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. She has also worked extensively on evolutionary tropes and ideas of transcendence/progress in new materialist feminist philosophy, exploring how these concepts manifest in literary and philosophical works.
Her scholarly output reveals strong thematic trends across gender studies, medical humanities, and literary analysis. Her recent work demonstrates increasing engagement with trans* studies, medical humanities as an emerging interdisciplinary field, and explorations of time and embodiment. The articles show a trajectory from literary analysis toward more direct engagement with medical ethics, healthcare practices, and contemporary social issues, particularly in the context of pandemic times and bodily representation. This evolution reflects her commitment to addressing pressing societal concerns through humanities scholarship.
Dr. Sellberg has been actively involved in supervision of higher degree research students, serving as Principal or Associate Advisor for numerous PhD and Master's projects focused on gender, history, literature, and embodiment. She has secured research funding including a UQ Early Career Researcher grant for 'Recipes for life: Generational health regimes in Early Modern English and Scottish recipe books' (2015) and a UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for 'Appropriations of Medicine in Histories of Early Modern Sexuality' (2014-2017).
She has organized several major international conferences including 'Bodies in Movement: Intersecting Discourses of Materiality in the Sciences and the Arts,' 'Sensualising Deformity: Communication and Construction of Monstrous Embodiment,' 'Technicity, Temporality, Embodiment: the 10th Somatechnics Conference,' and the 'CSAA Conference 2019: Cultural Transformations.' Her collaborative work extends to the Australasian Health and Medical Humanities Network, which she helped launch in 2021, demonstrating her commitment to building interdisciplinary research communities that bridge humanities scholarship with medical practice and health policy considerations.
