Margrit Shildrick
Contact
Name and title: Margrit Shildrick
Workplace: Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Universitetsvägen 10 E, plan 6
Postal address Institutionen för etnologi religionshistoria och genusvetenskap (ERG)106 91 Stockholm
About me
I joined Stockholm University in 2018 and am now Guest Professor in Gender and Knowledge Production at ERG, having worked for several years at Tema Genus, the unit for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at Linköping University. It has been an excellent move that brings me into contact with many inspiring colleagues and some great PhD students, while I pursue my own grant-aided research. I have recently finished a long-term research project in Canada around organ transplantation, and an RJ funded project on prostheses, biotechnologies and the posthuman future of embodiment - which underpins my new book: Visceral Prostheses: Somatechnics and Posthuman Embodiment (2022 Bloomsbury). I am now working on a 3yr collaborative Finish/Russian/UK KONE funded project - The Meanings and Workings of the Gift - which will further explore posthumanism.
Given my varied academic qualifications in literature, bioethics, and poststructuralist and posthumanist philosophy, I am excited by, the challenges and potentials of interdisciplinary critical cultural studies and advanced feminist theory. I’ve held academic posts in the UK, Ireland, Canada, USA, Finland and Australia, and currently I am also Adjunct Professor of Critical Disability Studies at York University, Toronto, Visiting Professor in the Dept. of Law at UTS, Sydney, and Honorary Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Liverpool. As a broadly postmodernist scholar (albeit with some critical caution), I am committed to contesting the taken-for-granted grounds and structures of western humanism, and over the years I have taught extensively in gender studies, and in critical disability theory, which is not yet widely recognised within Sweden.
Many of my concerns come together in the Nordic Network for Gender, Body, Health in which I am an executive committee member.
Research Interests
My overall interest is in body theory which leads me to:
interdisciplinary gender studies and feminist theory, postconventional bioethics, phenomenology, posthumanities, science and technology studies (STS), critical disability studies (including cripqueer theory and practice), knowledge production within the biosciences, theories of the monstrous, prosthetic theory, psychoanalysis, retheorising women’s health, organ transplantation.
I use both Derrida and Deleuze extensively, as well as the major feminist theorists like Butler and Grosz.
I am involved with several research projects such as PITH (Phenomenology of Incorporating a Transplanted Heart) in Toronto; Queer Death Studies based in Sweden; Living Well with the Dead in Contemporary Ireland based in Cork; Hybrid Bodies art project in Canada and UK; and my own RJ project The Meaning and Significance of Prostheses: Biotechnologies and the Posthuman Future of Embodiment; and now a collaborative KONE project on rethinking the gift.
Books:
- Dangerous Discourses: Subjectivity, Sexuality and Disability (2009 Palgrave Macmillan)
- Embodying the Monster: Encounters with the Vulnerable Self (2002 London: Sage)
- Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)ethics (1997 London: Routledge).
Edited collections:
- Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference – edited with Noreen Giffney (2013 Palgrave Macmillan).
- Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges - edited with Roxanne Mykitiuk (2005 Cambridge, MA: MIT Press)
- Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader - edited with Janet Price (1999 Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, and New York: Routledge).
- Vital Signs: Feminist Reconfigurations of the Bio/logical Body - edited with Janet Price (1998 Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).
Most recent journal articles:
- ‘Queering Dementia: Technologies, Visceral Prostheses and Embodiment’, lambda nordica (2021) 26, 2-3: 76-101.
- ‘Introduction: Queering Health and Biomedicine’ NNGBH Collective (Luna Dolezal, Lisa Folkmarson Käll, Donna McCormack, Venla Oikkonen, Margrit Shildrick), lambda nordica (2021)26, 2-3: 7-18.
- ‘Introduction: Transplantation: Changing Biotechnologies and Imaginaries’, (Donna McCormack and Margrit Shildrick), Medical Humanities (2021) 47, 4: 385-87.
- ‘Hauntological Dimensions of Heart Transplantation: the onto-epistemologies of deceased donation’, Medical Humanities (2020) 47, 4: 388-96.
- ‘Queering the Social Imaginaries of the Dead’, Australian Feminist Studies (2020)35, 104: 170-185.
- ‘Matters of the Heart: Temporality and Microchimeric Entanglements’ in Tammer El Sheikh (ed.)Entangled Bodies: Art, Identity, Intercorporeality. Vernon Press (2020).
- ‘The Self's Clean and Proper Body’ in Jeffrey Weinstock (ed.) The Monster Theory Reader, Minnesota University Press (2019).
- ‘Body Shock: Unsettling the Biosciences Through Postconventional Materialities’. Somatechnics (2019) 9. 2-3: 206–222.
- ‘Neoliberalism and Embodied Precarity: Some Crip Responses’, South Atlantic Quarterly (2019) 18. 3: 595-613.
- ‘(Micro)chimerism, Immunity and Temporality: Rethinking the Ecology of Life and Death’, Australian Feminist Studies (2019) 34:99, 10-24. [Reprinted in Elizabeth Stephens and Karin Sellberg (eds) (2021) The Somatechnics of Life and Death: Towards a New Feminist Biopolitics. New York: Routledge.]
- ‘Before the Cut: Rethinking Genital Identity’ (with Marie-Louise Holm) in (Re)constructive Surgeries: Making the Gendered Body in a Globalized World, eds. Gabriele Griffin and Malin Jordal. Routledge (2018).
- ‘Visual Rhetorics and the Seductions of the Monstrous: some precautionary observations’, Somatechnics 8.2 (2018): 163–177.
- ‘Monster Talk: A Virtual Roundtable’ with Mark Bould, Liv Bugge, Surekha Davies, Margrit Shildrick and Jeffrey Weinstock’, ed. Donna McCormack, Somatechnics 8.2 (2018): 248–268
- ‘Re/membering the body’ in A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities, eds. C. Åsberg and R. Braidotti. Springer (2018): 165-175.
- ‘Messy Entanglements: research assemblages in heart transplantation discourses and practices’, with Andrew Carnie, Alexa Wright et al, J. Medical Humanities (2018) 44: 46–54.
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