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Tara Mehrabi is a Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University's Centre for Gender Studies (CGF). Her research focuses on intersections of gender, science, technology, health, and death through a feminist and queer lens. She holds a PhD from Linköping University (2016) titled Making Death Matter: A Feminist Technoscience Study of Alzheimer’s Sciences in the Laboratory. Mehrabi co-founded the Queer Death Studies Network (QDSN) and chairs the GEXcel research strand on Queerfeminist Materialist Perspectives in Death Studies. She is affiliated with the Posthumanities Hub at KTH.
Her work critiques laboratory practices, particularly how death and dying are constructed in Alzheimer's research, exploring ethical implications of killable bodies in scientific economies. Recent projects include studying digital healthcare accessibility in Sweden via the Digital Well Arena initiative. She teaches courses on feminist theory, gender studies, and feminist technoscience at CGF.
Mehrab's publications span monographs, peer-reviewed articles, and special issues editing. Key works include Queer Ecologies of Death in the Lab (2020) and contributions to Australian Feminist Studies. Her research bridges posthumanities, intersectionality, and new materialisms to interrogate death's material agency, waste management in labs, and transcorporeal intersectionality.
