Organising Team

  • Kristin Käuper (she/they)

    Founder & Organiser
    Website, Social Media, Events

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  • Rebecca Humphreys-Lamford (they/them)

    Social Media

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  • Wenmei Bai (she/they)

    Newsletter & Communication

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  • Onyx Crisp (she/her)

    Website

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  • Laurin Tirpitz (they/them)

    Events Coordinator

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  • Yash Gupta (he/him)

    Events Coordinator

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  • Prof Dr Sven Walter (he/him)

    Reading Group Organiser

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  • Dr Karen Cuthbert (she/they)

    Reading Group Organiser

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  • Dr Ayşegül Şah Bozdoğan Iles (she/they)

    Reading Group Organiser

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Network Members

  • Enes Akdağ

    Film and Media Studies
    Kadir Has University, Turkey

    media representations of asexuality+ spectrum; queer storytelling; new cinema history

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  • Wenmei Bai (she/they)

    Geography
    Independent Researcher, Ireland

    queer geographies; asexual domesticities; queer/asexual futurities

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    Rachel Bayer (she/her)

    Geography
    University College Dublin, Ireland

    asexual geographies; queer geographies; asexualities; compulsory sexuality

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  • Willow Bennett (they/them)

    Geography with Innovation 
    University of Bristol, UK

    amatonormativity; aromanticism; innovation

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  • Yasmin Benoit (she/her)

    Public Policy
    The Policy Institute, King's College London, UK

    public attitudes towards asexuality

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  • Dr Adeline Whittney Berry (she/they)

    Sociology
    University of Huddersfield, UK

    intersex; sexuality; gender; sex work; gerontology; healthcare; mental health; social justice

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    Dr Luke Brunning

    Philosophy
    University of Leeds, UK

    philosophy of love, sex, and relationships; ethics

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    Onyx Crisp (she/her)

    Philosophy
    University of Sheffield, UK

    conceptualising sexual orientation; compulsory sexuality; asexual theory; aromantic epistemology

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    Dr Karen Cuthbert (she/they)

    Sociology
    University of Glasgow, UK

    asexuality and its intersections (gender, disability, and autism); celibacy/abstinence

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    Dr Helena Esser (she/her)

    Literary Studies
    Independent Researcher, Germany

    asexuality; (neo-)Victorian gender and popular culture

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    Yash Gupta (he/him)

    Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies
    University of Bremen, Germany

    post/coloniality and asexuality; Desi asexualities; asexual intimacies; digital asexualities

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  • Isabella Hesse (she/her)

    Cultural Anthropology
    University of Vienna, Austria

    aromanticism; asexuality; feminist and queer theory; popular culture studies

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    Zofia Holewjusz (she/her)

    Geography
    Independent Researcher, UK

    queer geographies; asexuality; (sexual) orientation; affect; space

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    Rebecca Humphreys-Lamford (they/them)

    Media Studies
    University of Birmingham, UK

    media representations of asexuality

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    T.N. Hutchinson (they/them)

    Literary Studies
    University of York, UK

    Decadence studies; aestheticism; Victorian/Edwardian literature

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    Dr Joe Jukes (they/them)

    Geography
    Tampere University, Finland

    queer and film studies; platonic relations; 'nonsexualities'; emotion and affect; geographies of sexualities

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  • Kristin Käuper (she/they)

    Network Organiser

    Philosophy
    University of Leeds, UK

    aromanticism; asexuality; philosophy of love, sex, and relationships

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    Ellis Khachidze (they/them)

    Sexuality and Gender Studies
    University of Birmingham, UK

    20th century literature and life-writing; queer theory; history of education; medical humanities

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    Dr Silja Kukka (she/her)

    Literature; Gender/Queer Studies
    University of Oulu, Finland

    fan fiction studies; asexuality; queer studies; literary studies; gender studies, youth studies

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    Dr Anna Kurowicka (she/her)

    American Studies
    University of Warsaw, Poland

    asexuality studies; popular culture: speculative fiction

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  • Kaori Matsumoto (she/her)

    Literature; Feminist and Queer Theories, University of York, UK

    sapphic modernism; amatonormativity and compulsory (hetero)sexuality

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    Dr Natasha McKeever (she/her)

    Philosophy
    University of Leeds, UK

    philosophy of love, sex, and relationships; ethics

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    Alex Nevins

    Law; Political Science
    University of Edinburgh, UK

    Asexual-spectrum identities; legal recognition; queer legal theory; feminist legal theory; equality, criminal, and family law

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  • Han O'Flanagan (they/he)

    English Literature
    Lancaster University, UK

    asexuality; 19th and 20th century; gothic; weird; supernatural; literature; gender

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  • Dr Ela Przybyło (she/they)

    Gender Studies
    Illinois State University, USA

    asexuality; feminisms; queer and trans studies; disability studies

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  • Dr Ayşegül Şah Bozdoğan Iles (she/they)

    Philosophy
    Independent Researcher, Switzerland

    a-/anti-sexuality as feminist resistance; negative ethics and freedom; decolonial asexualities

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    Claudia Sterbini (she/her)

    English Literature
    University of Edinburgh, UK

    asexuality in nineteenth-century sexology and literature

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    Laurin Tirpitz (they/them)

    Philosophy
    Independent Researcher, Germany

    asexuality; aromanticism; feminist, trans and queer philosophy; philosophy of sex and sexuality

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  • Prof Dr Sven Walter (he/him)

    Philosophy
    Osnabrück University, Germany

    situated cognition and affectivity; free will and responsibility; affectivity and marginalization

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    Dr JT Welsch (he/they)

    English and Creative Industries
    University of York, UK

    asexuality; creativity studies; creative industries; creative writing; queer history; creative-critical practice

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  • Dr Shuyu Yang (he/him)

    Fashion Marketing
    University of Leeds, UK

    consumer culture theory; queer theory; critical marketing theory

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Membership

Membership in the Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network is free. The network is based at the Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships (CLSR) at the University of Leeds, UK, and is currently open to researchers working within Europe.

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