Nina Lykke:

Queerfemme-inist researcher, poet and writer

Professor Emerita of Gender Studies with special reference to Gender and Culture at Dept. of Thematic Studies: Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden,

Adjunct Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark

Member of CUHRE, Elite Centre for Understanding Human Relationships with the Environment, University of Southern Denmark.

CURRENT ACTIVITIES

Nina is co-founder of the international network for Queer Death Studies, and her  current research as well as her poetic  and narrative writing focus on  queering, posthumanizing and decolonizing death, mourning, cancer, ecologies,  plant and animal studies and posthuman poetics from queerfemme-inist and postsocialist perspectives. In her current publications, she  experiments with the mixing of genres, combining the creative and the academic, and explores  the potentials of fiction and poetry writing.

Nina is managing co-editor (together with Jeff Hearn) of the book series Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality.

PREVIOUS ACTIVITIES

Before taking up a professorship in Gender and Culture in Sweden, Nina, for 15 year, led a Women’s and Gender Studies Center at the University of Southern Denmark; the center was the first WS center in Denmark.

Since its inception in 1999, she headed the PhD program in interdisciplinary Gender Studies at Linköping University (the first PhD program of this kind in Sweden). From 2004-2013, she was also the head of the Gender Studies Unit at Linköping University.

She was founding director and later co-director of an international centre of gender excellence, GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (2007-2017) as well as scientific leader of a Nordic and a Swedish-International Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (2003-2017).

She has extensive international experience from numerous cross-national projects and networks in gender research and education in Gender Studies. From 2001-2005, she was managing director of AOIFE (Association of Institutions of Feminist Education and Research in Europe), and she was also a longstanding member of the lead-team of the European thematic network in Womens Studies, Athena.

She was also  Director of Stint International Research Training Network: New Tools for Transnational Analysis in Postgraduate Intersectional Gender Research – a collaboration between Gender Studies units at the University of Western Cape, South Africa; Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, Bergen University, Norway; and Linköping University, Sweden, 2016-2022.

She was for many years associate editor of the European Journal of Womens Studies , and she has been advisor for several other scholarly feminist journals, among others Feminist Theory; NORA; Gender, Technology and Development; Women, Gender, Research; and Signs. Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

In 2008, Nina was awarded one of Linköping University’s distinguished professorships due to her merits in research, education and management.

In 2016, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at Karlstad University, Sweden.