Organising Team

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    Kristin Käuper (she/they)

    Founder & Organiser
    Website, Social Media, Events

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    Laurin Tirpitz (they/them)

    Events Coordinator

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    Onyx Crisp (she/her)

    Website

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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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    Yash Gupta (he/him)

    Events Coordinator

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Network Members

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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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    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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  • Amber Thibeault (she/her)

    University College Dublin, Ireland
    Gender Studies

    asexuality; allosexuality; allonormativity; compulsive sexuality; Split Attraction Model; queer and feminist 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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  • 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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  • Dr Canton Winer (he/they)

    Sociology; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
    Northern Illinois University, USA

    asexuality; aromanticism; gender; social theory; queer theory; culture

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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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    Dr Ela Przybyło (she/they)

    Gender Studies
    Illinois State University, USA

    asexuality; feminisms; queer and trans studies; disability studies

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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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    Enes Akdağ

    Film and Media Studies
    Kadir Has University, Turkey

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

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  • Dr Giulia Zoppolat (she/her)

    Social Psychology
    Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Netherlands

    romantic relationships; wellbeing; mixed emotions; asexuality

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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 Helena Esser (she/her)

    Literary Studies
    Independent Researcher, Germany

    asexuality; (neo-)Victorian gender and popular culture

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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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    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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    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 Karen Cuthbert (she/they)

    Sociology
    University of Glasgow, UK

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

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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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    Kristina Weber (she/her)

    Anglophone Literary Studies
    University of Rostock, Germany

    queer literary studies; postcolonial literatures; Caribbean literatures; asexual reading

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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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    Laurin Tirpitz (they/them)

    Philosophy
    Independent Researcher, Germany

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

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    Liesl Jensen (she/her)

    Early Modern Studies
    University of Birmingham, UK

    asexuality and aromanticism in Shakespeare; performance studies; queer theory; early modern literature and culture

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  • Louison Rizzo (they/them)

    Sociology
    Caen University, France

    symbolic interactionism, asexuality, sexuality, doubt, disposition

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    Dr Luke Brunning

    Philosophy
    University of Leeds, UK

    philosophy of love, sex, and relationships; ethics

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  • Mackenzie King (she/her)

    History
    Georgetown University, USA

    late medieval German nuns; asexuality; virginity

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  • Malavika (she/her)

    English Literature, Cultural Studies
    Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India

    asexuality studies; digital Intimacies; disability studies; cultural studies; affect studies

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  • Mara Wassermeier (she/her)

    Gender Studies
    Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

    asexualities; aromanticisms; compulsory 
    sexuality; amatonormativity; queer time

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  • Meg Underwood (she/her)

    Psychology
    University of Lincoln, UK

    asexuality; allonormativity; compulsory sexuality; minority stress; mental health, wellbeing

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  • Megan Jackson (she/her)

    Clinical Psychology
    University of Hertfordshire, UK

    asexuality; mental health; identity

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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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    Onyx Crisp (she/her)

    Philosophy
    University of Sheffield, UK

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

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    Rachel Bayer (she/her)

    Geography
    University College Dublin, Ireland

    asexual geographies; queer geographies; asexualities; compulsory sexuality

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    Rebecca Humphreys-Lamford (they/them)

    Media Studies
    University of Birmingham, UK

    media representations of asexuality

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  • Saffron Llewellyn (they/them)

    Journalism, Media and Communications
    Cardiff University, Wales, UK

    asexuality; asexual representation; media analysis; identity; television; mainstream media

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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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    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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    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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    Thémis Musy (she/they)

    Sociology, Gender Studies
    Independent researcher, France

    deconstruction of gender and sexuality; queer materialism; politicisation of intimacy; consent; compulsory sexuality

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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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    Wenmei Bai (she/they)

    Geography
    Independent Researcher, Ireland

    queer geographies; asexual domesticities; queer/asexual futurities

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    Willow Bennett (they/them)

    Geography with Innovation 
    University of Bristol, UK

    amatonormativity; aromanticism; innovation

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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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    Yasmin Benoit (she/her)

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

    public attitudes towards asexuality

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    Zofia Holewjusz (she/her)

    Geography
    Independent Researcher, UK

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

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