Karen Hvidtfeldt

2018-2021 PI of the Research Project 2 Medicine Man: Media Assemblages of Medicalized Masculinity, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark

2018-2019 Participant in the research project: Young Danish cancer patients use and experience of social media, Aarhus University, funded by Danish Cancer Foundation.

2018 - Chair, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Southern Denmark

2018 -Assessment committee member, Experience Economy, Aarhus University, DK

2018 - Assessment committee member, Gender Studies, University of Copenhagen, DK

2017-2018 Participant in research network Take Part funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

2017 - Member of the research group Kulturel transformation og kulturdesign, Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark

2013-2016 Head of the research group Cultural analysis of Health, Reproduction, Gender and the Body, Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark

2013-2018 Participant in the research project “Reproduction, Medicin and Mobility” (REMM), University of Southern Denmark

2012 Editor of K&K – Kultur og Klasse (Academic Journal, BFI level 2)

2011 - Assessment committee member, Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland2010 Assessment committee member, Aesthetics and Culture, Aarhus University, DK

2011-2014 Participant in the research project (Trans)formations of kinship: Travelling in search of relatedness (KinTra), funded by The Danish Council for Independent Research (FKK)

2013 Participant in the research project “Danish Research Center on Education and Advanced Media Materials” (DREAM)

2006-2013 Chair, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Southern Denmark

2005 - Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Odense (maternal leave 2006/07)

2001-2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Odense (maternal leave 2002)

2002 - Member of the International Association of Cultural Studies

2001-2005 Member of the Steering Commitee ”National Network for Cultural Research and Cultural Analysis, supported by SFH 2003-2005

2000 Ph.D., European Cultural Studies, Department of Languages and Culture, Roskilde University, DK (maternal leave 1996/97)

1995 MA in the Faculty of Arts, Department of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture, University of Copenhagen, DK.

I head the research project Medicine Man: Media Assemblages of Medicalized Masculinity funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark from 2018-2022 and is a participant in the research project: Young Danish cancer patients use and experience of social media (Aarhus University 2018-2019).  My research lies in the border area between critical cultural studies, gender studies and health sciences, and examines how cultural analytical methods may be applied to issues related to health, disease, reproduction, sexuality, gender and the body. Former research includes independent and collaborative studies on transnational surrogacy, motherhood, family, and cultural aging.