Education

Teaching

Courses

Cultural Studies and Gender Studies, undergraduate class in Gender Studies, Center for Gender Studies, Stockholm University, 2006–2008. (Co-taught with Ph.D. Dirk Gindt). Provided Gender Studies majors with a Cultural Studies perspective on gender and sexuality, as well as performativity in a wider context.

Teateraktivism—Genus, feminism och queer, undergraduate class in Performance Studies, Department of Musicology and Performance Studies, Stockholm University, 2009. (Co-taught with Ph.D. Student Mikael Strömberg).

Invited Lectures

“Introduction to the Politics of Drag Performance,” Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 2011. (Prof. Christine Ekholst) A short lecture via Skype for students in Introduction class to Gender and Sexuality, presenting the politics of potentiality in drag show.

“Queer Activism,” In Teateraktivism, an undergraduate class in Performance Studies, Department of Musicology and Performance Studies, Stockholm University, 2008 (Prof. Willmar Sauter). Contextualized queer activism in the wider scope of the class focusing on how theatre (potentially) functions as activism.

“Kroppen som konstverk” (“The Body as Artwork”). Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts and Stockholm University of Dance and Circus, Sweden, 2007. (Dir. Sara Giese, Prof. Karin Helander, and Prof. Lena Hammergren) Lecture-seminar with dancers, mime artists and actors about body modifications and performativity.

Professional Presentations

“After Dark—Underhållning och politik” (“After Dark—Entertainment and Politics”). Rotary, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010. (board member Britt-Marie Bystedt)

“Performativitet—Motstånd och normer i dragshow och Skådespelerskan” (“Performativity—Resistance and Norms in Drag Show and The Actress”). Stockholm City Theatre, Sweden, 2008 (Dir. Sara Giese) Dramaturgical lecture-discussion with the creative team for the production of Anne Charlotte Leffler’s play The Actress.

“Älskade Zarah? Zarah Leander i After Darks shower” (“Beloved Zarah? Zarah Leander in After Dark’s shows”). Nation-wide tour with the Swedish National Theatre to Swedish towns, 2007. (Christer Uhre, producer) Related a major popular icon from the early 20th century in a shame-focused Cultural Studies framework.

Scholarly Papers Delivered

“What have I become, my sweetest friend?” Performance Remains, Global Presence: Memory, Legacy, and Imagined Futures, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Chicago, August 2011.

“Material Girls: The Negotiation of Shame in the Material Culture of Contemporary Drag Queens,” The Urban Catwalk: Fashion and Street Culture, Yale University, April 2011.

“I Know We’re Not in Kansas: The Meaning of Space as a Radical Democratic Drag Intervention for Cultural Citizenship,” ACS Crossroads Conference, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, June 2010.

“Unintentional Activism or Mere Entertainment? Contemporary Drag Performance in New York,” Misperformance: Misfiring, Misfitting, Misreading, Performance Studies international 15, CDU, Zagreb, Croatia, June 2009.

“Den ofarliga populärkulturen? After Dark, dragshow och dess ‘breda publik’” (The Innocuous Popular Culture? After Dark, Drag Show and It’s ‘Large’ Audience), RE: ACT UP—Queerforskningens återväxt, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden, November, 2006.

“The Queer Diva: Zarah Leander and the Politics of Shame,” Keynote together with Prof. Tiina Rosenberg, Economies of Emotion: Rethinking Affect in Cinema and Media Studies, Department of Film Studies, Stockholm University, October, 2007.

Publications

Monograph

La Dolce Vita: Trettio år med drag (La Dolce Vita: Thirty Years in Drag) Stockholm: Normal, 2006.

Shorter Chapters and Texts

“Material Girls: The Negotiation of Shame in the Material Culture of Contemporary Drag Queens,” Proceedings from the Yale conference The Urban Catwalk. In publication.

“Drugornas underbara värld,” (“The Wonderful World of Drag Queens”) Kroppsspråk och tankesprång, Stockholm: STUTS, 2009.

“Annorlundahetens potential: Dragshow och den politiska estetiken i att framträda annorlunda,” (“The Potential of Difference: Drag Show and the Political Aesthetics of Appearing Different”) lambda nordica 13, no. 1-2 (2008), 30–49.

“Queen Willmar,” Willmar in the World: Young Scholars Exploring the Theatrical Event, Stockholm: STUTS, 2007.

Fellowships and Awards

Private Donation Grant ($2,300) from Stockholm University to conduct research for 3 months in New York City, 2008.

Cultural Studies Grant ($17,100) from The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education to conduct research for 8 months in New York City, 2009.

Thord-Gray Memorial Fund ($20,000) from the American-Scandinavian Foundation to conduct research for 12 months in New York City, 2010.

Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellowship ($150,750, in tuition and living expenses) from the CUNY Graduate Center to finish my dissertation in New York City, 2011.

Professional Service

Editor, STUTS, 2008–2011

Assistant Editor, Western European Stages, 2011

Research Assistant, Prof. David Savran and Prof. Marvin Carlson, 2011

Treasurer, STUTS, 2008–2011

Specialist in gender issues, Assessment of applications for The Foundation for Future Swedish Culture, 2008–2010 Representative, The Stockholm Committee, National Theatre of Sweden, 2007–2008

Treasurer, lambda nordica, 2007–2010

Editor, lambda nordica, 2007–2008
Initiated and engaged in the revision of the journal into a peer-reviewed, queer-inclusive, modern source for scholars in the Humanities.

Research Assistant, Prof. Tiina Rosenberg, 2006–2007
Project title: “Vill ni se en skamstjärna, se på Zarah Leander,” (“Do You Want To See a Star of Shame, Look at Zarah Leander”)

Intern as Marketer, Stockholm City Theatre.
Graphic designer, assistant press contact, website responsibility, and responsibility for marketing of Blå timmen

Representative, The Society for Theatre and Dance Studies, Stockholm University, 2003–2005

Performer and Assistant Director in KUNQ, 2001–2005
Sweden’s first youth queer performance art collective.