Erika Alm
{{Short description|Swedish gender studies scholar (born 1975)}}
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Erika Alm is an associate professor in gender studies and associate dean at the Faculty of Humanities at University of Gothenburg.{{cite web|url=https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/erikaalm|title=Erika Alm|access-date=21 June 2024|website=University of Gothenburg|archive-date=22 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240622041042/https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/erikaalm|url-status=live}}
Since 2020, she has been co-editor of the journal Lambda Nordica on LGBTQ studies.
Career
Alm wrote her dissertation in history of ideas 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 Umeå University. From 2011 she was lecturer in gender studies at the University of Gothenburg.
In 2014 she took a teaching sabbatical from the University of Gothenburg to teach at Ohio State University where she taught a course on Critical perspective on Cisnormativity.{{cite web|url=https://u.osu.edu/osuwgss/2014/04/29/visiting-professor-erika-alm-critical-perspectives-on-cisnormativity/|title=Visiting Professor Erika Alm: Critical Perspectives on Cisnormativity|date=29 April 2014|website=Ohio State University|access-date=21 June 2024|archive-date=9 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609152052/https://u.osu.edu/osuwgss/2014/04/29/visiting-professor-erika-alm-critical-perspectives-on-cisnormativity/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.stint.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Erika_Alm_-_OSU.pdf|title=REPORT FROM A SEMESTER AT OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WITHIN THE PROGRAM TEACHING SABBATICAL, 2014|access-date=21 June 2024|website=stint.se|archive-date=5 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305000338/https://www.stint.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Erika_Alm_-_OSU.pdf|url-status=live}}
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 abortion, sterilization and gender correction.
In 2020, Alm took over as new editor of the peer-reviewed journal Lambda Nordica on LGBTQ studies, alongside her peer Elisabeth L. Engebretsen.{{cite journal|url=https://lambdanordica.org/index.php/lambdanordica/article/view/672|title=Editorial: Greetings from the new editors|date=26 October 2020|access-date=21 June 2024|journal=Lambda Nordica|volume=25|issue=2|doi=10.34041/ln.v25.672|archive-date=10 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240610104656/http://lambdanordica.org/index.php/lambdanordica/article/view/672|url-status=live|doi-access=free}}{{cite web|url=https://lambdanordica.org/index.php/lambdanordica/about/editorialTeam|title=Editorial Team|access-date=21 June 2024|website=Lambda Nordica|archive-date=28 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240528143528/https://www.lambdanordica.org/index.php/lambdanordica/about/editorialTeam|url-status=live}}
Bibliography (selection)
- {{cite journal|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38749253/ |access-date=2024-06-21 |journal=Social Science & Medicine|volume=351 |title=The gender minority stress model and/or cisnormativity? The need for pluralistic theoretical perspectives in improving trans health and medicine |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240526135320/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38749253/ |archive-date=2024-05-26 |url-status=live|first1=Ida |last1=Linander |first2=Tove |last2=Lundberg |first3=Erika |last3=Alm|date=2024 |doi=10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116957|pmid=38749253 |doi-access=free }}
- {{cite journal|title=Anti-gender Politics and Queer Theory|url=https://www.lambdanordica.org/index.php/lambdanordica/article/view/838|doi=10.34041/ln.v27.838|first1=Erika|last1=Alm|first2=Elisabeth L. |last2=Engebretsen|journal=Lambda Nordica|date=2023 |volume=27|number=3–4|pages=7–19 |doi-access=free}}
- {{cite book|url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-47432-4|title=Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality: Challenging Swedish Exceptionalism|date=2021|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-47432-4 |isbn=978-3-030-47431-7 |editor-last1=Alm |editor-last2=Berg |editor-last3=Lundahl Hero |editor-last4=Johansson |editor-last5=Laskar |editor-last6=Martinsson |editor-last7=Mulinari |editor-last8=Wasshede |editor-first1=Erika |editor-first2=Linda |editor-first3=Mikela |editor-first4=Anna |editor-first5=Pia |editor-first6=Lena |editor-first7=Diana |editor-first8=Cathrin }}
- {{cite journal|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1471049|title=Ungendering Europe: critical engagements with key objects in feminism|date=14 May 2018|access-date=21 June 2024|journal=Gender, Place & Culture|volume=25|issue=7|doi=10.1080/0966369X.2018.1471049|first1=Mia |last1=Liinason |first2=Erika|last2=Alm|pages=955–962 }}
- {{cite book|chapter=What constitutes an in/significant organ? The vicissitudes of juridical and medical decision-making regarding genital surgery for intersex and trans people in Sweden|url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351133678-14/constitutes-significant-organ-erika-alm|isbn=9781351133678|title=Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries|doi=10.4324/9781351133678-14 }}