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Nina Lykke
Biography
Nina Lykke, Emerita-Professor, Dr. Phil., Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Honorary Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark. She participated in the building of Feminist Studies in Scandinavia and Europe more broadly for many years. She is also a poet and writer, and co-founder the International Network for Queer Death Studies. Her current research focuses on posthuman eco-poetics, the queering of cancer, death, and mourning in posthuman, queerfemme-inist, new-materialist, decolonial, eco-critical and spiritual-material perspectives. Author and co-author of numerous monographs such as Cosmodolphins (2000), Feminist Studies (2010), Vibrant Death (2022), Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters (2024), and co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies.