Sara Elisabeth Sellevold Orning

Senior Lecturer

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Academic interests

Gender theory and Feminist theory
History of Medicine and Medical Humanities
Feminist STS
Bodies and Embodiment
Literary theory
Critical theory
Film and film theory
Disability Studies
Animal Studies

Courses taught

KFL1010: Introduction to Interdisciplinary Gender Studies

KFL1020: Gender and Science: Theories of Gender

KFL4090: Gender Studies Master's Thesis

KFL2010/4010: Feminist Studies of Science

KFL4000: Interdisciplinary Research Methodologies and Thesis Writing

KFL4040: Feminist Theory

Guest lectures:

Medical Humanities; Special Needs Education; Health and Rehabilitation

Background

2018-2021: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo
2017-2018: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
2015-today: Tenured Senior Lecturer in Gender Research, Center for Gender Research (STK), University of Oslo
2014: Researcher, STK, University of Oslo
2013, fall: University Lecturer, STK, University of Oslo
2007-2012: PhD Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
2005-2007: Research Assistant to Professor Gro Hagemann, Department of History, University of Oslo
2004-2005: MA English and Critical Theory, University of Sussex
2000-2003: BA Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Awards

2010-2011: Award from the Norway-America Association
2008-2009: Award from the Norway-America Association
2008: Regent's Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
2007-2012: Fulbright Fellow

Collaborations

The Monster Network
Network on Teaching and Learning Differently
Forskerkollektivet
Nordic Network on Disability Research

Tags: Feminist theory, Gender, Bodies, Equality, History, Health, Literature, Film, Disabilities

Munoz Llort, Sonia; Puenchir, Maria; Utsi, Inga Márjá & Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2021). Interseksjonelle framtidsfortellinger: Hvem får drømme om framtiden? Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. 45(2), p. 73–88. doi: 10.18261/issn.1891-1781-2021-02-03-02. Full text in Research Archive
Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland; McCormack, Donna; Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold; Henriksen, Line & Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa (2021). Collective voices and the materialisation of ideas : The monster as methods. In Nirta, Caterina & Pavoni, Andrea (Ed.), Monstrous ontologies : Politics ethics materiality. Vernon Press. ISSN 9781622738908. p. 143–167.
Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2020). Monstermekanismer. Fryktinngytende blandinger og rasjonalitetens makt. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X. 1, p. 19–33. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3053-2020-01-03.
Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland; Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa & Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2019). Real Humans? Affective Imaginaries of the Human and its Others in Swedish TV series Äkta Människor. Nordic Journal of Migration Research. ISSN 1799-649X. 9(4), p. 515–532. doi: 10.2478/njmr-2019-0028. Full text in Research Archive
Orning, Sara; Kvistad, Erika Johanna & Henriksen, Line (2017). Monster Pedagogy: A Failing Approach to Teaching and Learning in the University. In Just, Edyta & Grahn, Wera (Ed.), Theories of Affect and Concepts in Generic Skills Education: Adventurous Encounters. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 9781443895736. p. 29–46.
Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2017). Staging Humanimality: Patricia Piccinini and a Genealogy of Species Intermingling. In Lundblad, Michael (Eds.), Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human. Edinburgh University Press. ISSN 9781474400022. p. 80–103.
Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2010). "The Embodied Spectator and the Uncomfortable Experience of Watching Romance and The Piano Teacher". excursions journal. ISSN 2044-4095. 1(1).

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Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold; Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland; McCormack, Donna & Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa (2022). Feminist Monster Studies. Show summary
Marginalised bodies, voices and knowledges are often relegated to the realm of the monstrous, in the sense that they are deemed ‘abnormal’, untruthful, or unreliable. In this panel, we revisit the ways in which monsters and the monstrous long have been of interest to feminist, queer and decolonial thinkers. Importantly, this is not to “show” what is construed as monstrous, but to demonstrate how thinking-with the monster can serve as a feminist method to grapple with and challenge structures of differentiation, and boundary-making categories of belonging. What kinds of monstrous imaginaries are at stake in thinking about and planning for the future? To what extent does the threat of the monstrous reimagine debates about knowledge production, agency and belonging? In this panel, we introduce feminist monster studies as a thinking tool for exploring tensions between what is considered acceptable and unstable or disregarded, unofficial/unrecognised and official/recognised, knowledges and bodies. Although the monster can certainly be unsettling, our aim is to spawn a discussion about boundaries, belonging and marginalisation relevant to contemporary science fiction, debates and imaginaries about futures, and develop strategies for how to reimagine collaboration and collectivity across differences and divergencies.
Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold & Taylor, Sunaura (2020). Being Human, Being Animal: Species Membership in Extraordinary Times. New Literary History. ISSN 0028-6087. 51, p. 663–685.
Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland; Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold; Henriksen, Line; Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa & McCormack, Donna (2020). Collective voices.
Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland & Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2020). Å tenke med monsteret? Gjesteforelesning ved KHiO.
Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2019). Speculative Storytelling and Configurations of the Human: Disability, Animality, and Monstrosity in an Extraordinary Female Body.
Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland; Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold; Henriksen, Line; McCormack, Donna & Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa (2019). Podcast: Collective voices and the materialisation of ideas: monster as methods.
Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland; Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold; Henriksen, Line; Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa & McCormack, Donna (2019). Collective voices and the materialisation of ideas: monster as methods.
Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2019). "Disability, animality and gender: the extraordinary body in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix".
Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2018). "Early modern monstrous births and transhumanism's silent monsters: investigating the promise and threat of bodily difference".
Aarseth, Helene & Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2018). Leder Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning nr. 4. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341.
Aarseth, Helene; Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold & Helseth, Hannah (2018). Leder Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning nr. 3. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. p. 1–3.
Aarseth, Helene & Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2018). Leder Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning nr. 1-2. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. p. 1–2.
Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland; Henriksen, Line; Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa; McCormack, Donna & Orning, Sara (2018). Promises, Monsters and Methodologies: The Ethics, Politics and Poetics of the Monstrous. Somatechnics. ISSN 2044-0138. 8(2), p. 143–162. doi: 10.3366/soma.2018.0247.
Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland; Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold; Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa; Henriksen, Line & McCormack, Donna (2018). Welcome to the Monster Network. Fafnir. ISSN 2342-2009. 4(3-4), p. 80–83.
Aarseth, Helene & Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2017). 40 år med kvinne- og kjønnsforskning. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. 41(4), p. 222–226. doi: 10.18261/issn.1891-1781-2017-04-01.
Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold & Aarseth, Helene (2017). Leder i Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning nr. 3/2017. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. 3.
Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold & Aarseth, Helene (2017). Leder i Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning nr. 2/2017. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. 2.
Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold & Aarseth, Helene (2017). Leder i Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning nr. 1/2017. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. 1.
Gabrielsen, Ane Møller & Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2017). Fanget av kjønnsfella. Adresseavisen. ISSN 0805-3804.
Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland & Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2017). We are the same these days. For the most part." Kjønn, menneskelighet og maskiner i TV-serien Westworld (2016).
Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold; Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland; McCormack, Donna; Henriksen, Line & Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa (2016). Why Monster Studies Now? A Halloween Symposium.
Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2016). "Chantal Akerman". Nekrolog til Cinematekets vårkatalog.
Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2016). "Hamskifter". Et tekstbidrag til katalogen for utstillingen Stein til byrden.
Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland & Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2016). Kjønn og seksualitet i forhandlingen mellom menneske og maskin. Føniks. p. 59–63.
Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland; Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold; Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa & Henriksen, Line (2016). Closing panel: the future of monster studies. Show summary
Closing panel on the future of Monster Studies. Where does the monster go after the conference? And where is it taking us? Why even engage with monsters in the first place? And is there something standing behind you right now, reading this over your shoulder?
Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland; Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold & Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa (2016). Panel on Äkta Människor. Show summary
In 2012, the Swedish sci-fi TV series Äkta människor (Real Humans) premiered on television. The series stages ell-known concerns like the machine/human dichotomy and fears of being replaced by technology, as well as feeding into debates about immigration, human origin stories, and sexual consent. What is at stake in the way Real Humans addresses these questions? What can we learn from it in terms of thinking about humanness, robotics, and monstrousness?
Engebretsen, Elisabeth Lund & Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2016). Faglige ansvarlige og innledere: "Feministiske Forskningsfronter: Teori, politikk, samarbeid". Show summary
Deltakere Helga Eggebø, seniorrådgiver, KUN - Senter for kunnskap og likestilling Ingvil Førland Hellstrand, førsteamanuensis, Nettverk for kjønnsforskning, Universitetet i Stavanger Kari Jegerstedt, førsteamanuensis, Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning, Universitetet i Bergen Mia Liinason, førstelektor, kjønnsforskning, Universitetet i Gøteborg Stine Helena Bang Svendsen, forsker, Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier, NTNU
Moseng, Maria & Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2015). Introduction. The Pleasure and Politics of Looking. Wuxia. ISSN 1893-739X.
Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2013). Å se film med kroppen. Wuxia. ISSN 1893-739X.
Orning, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold (2016). Veiledning, kjønn og omsorgsansvar. En studie av hvordan stipendiater og veiledere opplever kombinasjonen av omsorgsansvar og akademisk karriere. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive

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