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Researcher
- Division of Art History and Visual Studies
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail ellen.sunesongenus.luse
Mobile +46 70 639 17 18
Room LUX:A412
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
Ellen Suneson is an art historian and visual studies scholar working on contemporary art and scholarly methodologies, with a particular focus on feminist and queer feminist perspectives. She is currently a lecturer at the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University and a freelancing curator. Suneson holds a PhD from the Division of Art History and Visual Studies at Lund University and defended her doctoral dissertation "Portraying Unease: the Art and Politics of Uncomfortable Attachments" (Makadam Förlag) in 2022. Her research interests include emotional responses to art, institutional theory, and affect theory.
Research
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Books (1)
Articles (2)
- Hansson, K. & Suneson, E. (2018). Vulnerable Normality: Popular Neuroimaging and the Discursive Logic of the (Dis)able(d) Brain. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, 10, 49-64. Linköping University Electronic Press.
- Suneson, E. & Rosenqvist, J. (2016). Konst och subjektskapande : neurodegenerativa nedsättningar och dialogbaserad konstpedagogik. Socialmedicinsk tidskrift, 93, 288-296. Stiftelsen Socialmedicinsk tidskrift.
Book chapters (5)
- Suneson, E. (2018). Kreupel-Cripple : Sökande efter en sörjbar natur. In Bengtsen, P., Liljefors, M. & Petersén, M. (Eds.) Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences, Bild och natur : Tio konstvetenskapliga betraktelser (pp. 107-123), 16. Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences.
- Bengtsen, P. & Suneson, E. (2017). Pathological creativity : How popular media connect neurological disease and creative practices. In Hansson, K. & Idvall, M. (Eds.) The Pandora Series, Interpreting the brain in society. Cultural reflections on neuroscientific practices (pp. 29-47), 25. Arkiv förlag.
- Suneson, E. (2016). André Talborn - A Collision of Gestures. Sandra Mujinga, Karl Patric Näsman, André Talborn, 81-83. Fredrik Roos Stiftelse.
- Suneson, E. (2016). Karl Patric Näsman - Grammar of Imitation. Sandra Mujinga, Karl Patric Näsman, André Talborn, 59-61. Fredrik Roos Stiftelse.
- Suneson, E. (2016). Sandra Mujinga - I Gave the World a Word. Sandra Mujinga, Karl Patrik Näsman, André Talborn, 37-39. Fredrik Roos Stiftelse.
Conference contributions (4)
- Suneson, E. (2019). Performing shame : alignments between aesthetic gestures, structures of feeling, and value judgments.
- Hansson, K. & Suneson, E. (2018). Vulnerable Normality: Popular Neuroimaging and the discursive logic of the (dis)able(d) brain.
- Suneson, E. (2018). Materiality, aesthetic gestures and emotional communities : on emotions as artistic medium.
- Suneson, E. (2015). Bilder, seende och normalitet : populärvetenskapens visuella representationer av hjärnan.

Researcher
- Division of Art History and Visual Studies
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail ellen.sunesongenus.luse
Mobile +46 70 639 17 18
Room LUX:A412
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30