Lykke, Nina, Professor

By Stine Adrian on 28 Aug | 0 comments

Nina Lykke is director of GEXcel. She is Professor of Gender Studies with special reference to Gender and Culture at the Department of Gender Studies, Linköping University.From a background within literary theory and cultural studies, she has devoted her academic career to the field of inter- and transdisciplinary gender research. This has led her to an outspoken interest in feminist theory and epistemologies. Her doctoral dissertation (Dr. Phil.) developed a new feminist-marxist-psychoanalytical conceptual framework for analysis of embodied subjectivities and sexualities, based on literary material. In recent years, she has researched and published books and articles on feminist cultural studies of technoscience and studied relationships of sex/gender, bodies, nature, animals, science and technologies ina transnational and cultural perspective. Another current research focus is theorizing of diversity and difference in Gender Studies through genealogical explorations of conceptualizations of intersectionality and their reflections in feminist theorizing.