Erika Alm is an associate professor in

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and

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at the Faculty of Humanities at

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. Since 2020, she has been co-editor of the journal Lambda Nordica on LGBTQ studies.

Career

Alm wrote her dissertation in

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in 2006, on the thesis ''"A packaging for guts and emotions": Conceptions of the body in government investigations from the 1960s and 1970s''. Between 2009 and 2011 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Umeå Center for Gender Studies at

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. From 2011 she was lecturer in gender studies at the University of Gothenburg. In 2014 she took a teaching

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from the University of Gothenburg to teach at

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where she taught a course on ''Critical perspective on

Cisnormativity Cisnormativity or cissexual assumption is the assumption that everyone is, or ought to be, cisgender. The term can further refer to a wider range of presumptions about gender assignment, such as the presumption of a gender binary, or expectatio ...

''. In her research, based on feminist, political and cultural theory, she has investigated norms around body, gender and desire, especially as they appear in medical expertise and legislation, for example issues concerning

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, sterilization and gender correction. In 2020, Alm took over as new editor of the

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ed journal Lambda Nordica on

LGBTQ studies Queer studies, sexual diversity studies, or LGBTQ studies is the study of topics relating to sexual orientation and gender identity usually focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender dysphoric, asexual, aromantic, queer, questioni ...

, alongside her peer Elisabeth L. Engebretsen.

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