Michael Nebeling Petersen

PhD

  • Emil Holms Kanal 2, 22-3-61, Søndre Campus, 22 Bygning 22, 3. sal

    2300 København S

20092024

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Personal profile

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Michael Nebeling Petersen researches and teaches within gender studies. He is especially interested in intersections between sexuality, gender, race and national belonging. He has studied homosexual culture and history, the cultural history of AIDS, queer kinship, reproduction technologies, biomedicalization and new cultures of intimacy on digital and social media.

Michael Nebeling Petersen is head of the research group at NorS Contemporary Cultural Studies. And he co-heads the interdisciplinary network for gender research in the Humanities at University of Copenhagen.

He is member of Boards at KVINFOLGBT Asylum and The National Association of Gender Research in Denmark, and he serves as member of the Advisory Board of the Think Tank Equalis.

Michael Nebeling Petersen is editor-in-chief of the Danish academic journal of Gender Studies Kvinder, Køn og Forskning. And he serves as member of the editorial boards of Lambda Nordica.  

Current research

He is PI for the the collaborative project The Cultural History of AIDS in Denmark (funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark). CHAD examines how AIDS emerged, became signified and became embedded in Danish culture during the period 1981–2000.

Fields of interest

Studies of Gender and sexuality 
Feminist theories and history, poststructuralist theories, trans* theories, queer theories, history of sexuality, performativity, feminist methodologies, HIV/AIDS

Feminist materialisms
Assisted reproduction technologies, Feminist science and technology, non-representational analysis, feminist affect theories

Critical race theories

Intersectionality, critical whiteness studies, homonationalism, queer of color critique, decolonization theories and interventions

Citizenship and activism
Sexual and intimate citizenship, policy studies, political cultural history, policy analysis

Media and communication
Social media, online ethnography, digital analysis and methods, cinema studies, post humanist media theories, history of Internet and media, digital methodologies, platform analysis, cultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Cultural Studies theories
The Birmingham school, post-structuralisms, affect theories, postcolonial theories, nationalisms, bio- and necropolitics, Foucauldian institutional analysis

Language and semiotics
Semiotics, discourses analysis, discourse theories, visual analysis, narrative analysis, multimodality, social semiotics, visual culture

 

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • gender studies
  • Sexualities
  • AIDS
  • reproductive technologies
  • Digital Culture
  • Cultural Studies
  • Queer theory