Louise Wallenberg

CURRICULUM VITAE

Current position

Director and Researcher at The Centre for Fashion Studies, University,

Education and Degrees

Ph.D., Cinema Studies, Stockholm University 2002

M.A., Cinema Studies, Stockholm University 1996

B.A., Cinema Studies, Stockholm University 1995

Publications

1. ”Designing Desirable Men: Fashion, Style and Masculinity in 1930s Cinema”, in ed Dirk Laundwert, Seam and Star: Male Elegance. Antwerpen: MoMu Press, in press

2. ”Eleganten: om manlig elegans, behörighet och utanförskap”, in eds. Lars Ilshammar, Pelle Snickars and Per Westerlund, Citizen Schein (Stockholm: Kungliga biblioteket, 2010)

3. “Buggering Freud and Deleuxe: Towards A Theory of Queer Masochism”, in Journal of Aesthetics and Culture 2010, vol. 1 (co-written with Torkild Thanem)

4. “Sul masochismo e l’(in)differenza sessuale nella photografia de Helmut Newton”, in KRILL anno 1, numero 01(Bari, 2010)

5. ”Mode, makar och masker: modets funktion i två filmer av Mauritz Stiller”, in eds. Louise Wallenberg and Dirk Gindt, Mode: en introduktion (Stockholm: Raster förlag, 2009)

6. “Straight Heroes with Queer Inclinations: Male Film Stars in the Swedish 1930s”, in ed. Sean Griffin, Hetero: Queering Representations of Straightness on Film (New York: SUNY Press, 2009)

7. “Paradoxes of Academic Practice: Manegerial Techniques in Critical Pedagogy”, together with Torkild Thanem, in Critical Management Studies at Work (Edward Elgar, 2009)

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8. ”Rajat ylittäviä drag kingejä ja kurittomia dildolesboja”, in LÄHIKUVA no 3 ( 2009)

9. “Trespassing the F-line? The Swedish Drag King Scene and its Glorification of Masculinity”, in ed. Robin Wright, Queer Europe (London: Intellect Ltd. Books, 2008)

10. “Mannequin in Red: Death in A Couture House”, in ed. Marketa Uhlirova, If Looks could Kill: Images of Fashion, Crime and Violence (London: Fashion and Film Festival & Walther König, 2008)

11. “Magos magiska mode”, in FLM, vol. 1, no. 2 (Stockholm, 2008)

12. “Hitchcock’s New Look”, in FLM vol. 1, no. 1 (Stockholm, 2007)

13. ”’Ya know, it can be like this… just like this… always’: När buddy-relationens homoerotic blir explicit”, in Häften för kritiska studier (Stockholm, 2007)

14. “”, in eds. Ginnette Vincendau and Alistair Phillips, Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood (London: BFI, 2006)

15. “’Mazurka pa sengekanten’: The Emergence of Danish Soft Porn”, in ed. Tytti Soila, 24 Frames: A Series of Wallflower Critical Guides to National and Regional Cinemas (Wallflower Press, 2005)

16. “New Black Queer Cinema”, in ed. Michele Aaron, New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004)

17. Upsetting the Male: Feminist Interventions in the New Queer Wave, Philosophical Dissertation, Stockholm University (2002)

18. ”Stilleristic Women: Gender Ambivalence in the Films of Mauritz Stiller”, in Aura, Filmvetenskaplig tidskrift no. 4 (Stockholm, 2000)

19. ”Att se med egna ögon, Om film och kvinnovåld”, in Tusen flickor eds. Karin Stigbrand and Sofie Stolpe (Våldsskildringsrådet, Stockholm, 2000)

20. ”Queerfilmens nya våg”, in Bang no. 3 (Stockholm, 2000)

21. ”Multimedia i filmundervisningen, Utvärderande rapport om studenternas tillgodogörande av multimediala undervisningsredskap”, in Grundrådets samlingsserie (Stockholm, 1999)

22. ”Richard Dyers White - En vithet på fall”, in Häften för kritiska Studier no. 3 (Stockholm, 1997)

23. “Paris is Burning - En studie i kvinnligheten blottlagd som konstruktion”, in ed. Tytti Soila, Dialoger, Feministisk filmteori i praktik (Stockholm: Aura, 1997)

24. “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - En antipatriarkal film”, in Häften för kritiska Studier no. 3 (Stockholm, 1995)

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Academic Papers and Presentations

• “Male Elegance: On Belonging and Exclusion”, open lecture given at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, March 2010

• “MAGO’s Magic: Sexual (In)difference in the Swedish Cinema in the 1960s”, paper given at the symposium “Film+Fashion: Revisiting the 1960s”, The Gradute Center, CUNY, New York, March 2010

• “Straight heroes and queer ideals” paper presented at The Graduate Center at the Symposium “Costume and the Movies” at the City University of New York, February 2009

• “Buggering Freud and Deleuze”, open lecture given at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, March 2009

• “Designing Desirable Men”, paper presented at the symposium Male Elegance at MoMu, Antwerp, November 2008

• “Masochism and Sexual (In)differemce in Newton’s Photography”, paper presented at the Symposium INTERACTIONS, Stockholm University October 2008

• “Actors are just Cattle’: On Narrative Cinema, Visual Pleasure, and the Treatment of Women in Film Production”, paper presented at the conference The Dark Side of Organization, Sheffield, June 2008

• ”Incorporating the New Look: Wanting to Become Lisa – and Refusing It”, paper presented at the PCACA, San Francisco, March 2008

• “Bugging Freud with Deleuze and Guattari: Phallic Women and Becoming-Woman • Newton’s Photography”, paper co-written with Dr. Torkild Thanem, presented at the PCACA, San Francisco, March 2008

• “Engendering/Degendering”, paper presented at the Culture of Dress Conference at Hofstra University, New York, April 2007

• “Engendering/Degendering: Swedish Popular Cinema in the 1930s”, paper presented at the University of Technology Sydney, May 2007

• “Painful Paradoxes”, paper given together with Dr. Torkild Thanem at the Conference for Critical Management Studies, Cambridge University, England, July 2006

• “Resisting the Either/Or: On Intersexuality and Transgenderism”, paper presented at the conference Desiring Dissent: Bodies in Resistance Conference, at the University of Essex, England, May 2004

• ”And Love Conquers All: On Gender Differences in Romance Movies”, paper given at Centre for Gender Studies (Kvinnovetenskapligt forum), Umeå University, 2003

• ”Amongst Birds and Bandits: Film and the Creation of Identity”, lecture given at ”Ungdomskulturdagen”, Enheten för kommunikation och samverkan, Stockholm University, 2003

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• ”Straight Heroes with Queer Inclinations”, paper presented at the Popular European Cinema Conference, Stockholm University, 2003

• ”A Genuine Feminine Aesthetics?”, presentation given at the Art Film Conference in Stockholm, 2002

• ”Dykes on Screen”, presentation given at the Queer Seminar at the Centre for Gender Studies, Stockholm University, 2002

• “Sexual (In) Difference: Towards an Irigarayan Feminist Knowing”, paper presented at the European Group of Organization Studies Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2002

• ”Hollywood, Home Videos, and Homo-Heroines”, paper presented at the NorFa-Conference at Lund University, Lund, 2001

• ”Men on Screen: On the Rigidity and Diversity of Masculinity in Film”, presentation given at the Swedish Association of Sexual Education (RFSU), Stockholm, 2001

• ”An Ideal Man: Gösta Ekman as Desirable She-Man in the Swedish 1920s and 30s”, paper presented at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington DC, 2001

• ”Presentation of A Ph.D. Project: On Feminist Theory and Queer Cinema”, paper presented at the Women’s Studies Department, University of Warwick, England, 2001

• ”Becoming Woman: Power, Play and Private Pleasures”, paper presented together with Dr. Torkild Thanem at the Affective Encounters Conference, Turku University , October 2001

• ”Amongst Mommies, Machines, and Humans: Maternity, Reproduction, and Matricide in the Center of the Universe”, paper given at the Alien goes Queer Conference in Stockholm, October 2001

• ”New (In)Visibility and Resistance: The Lesbian Body as Paradox within Swedish Visual Culture”, paper presented at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Chicago, April 2000

• ”The New Queer Wave” - Konstruktioner inom queerfilmen”, paper given at the BHM Conference, Gothenburg University, May 2000

• ”Visibility and Resistance”, paper given at the Standing Conference on Organization and Symbolism Conference in Athens, Greece, July 2000

• ”Feminist Film Theory – A Presentation”, paper presented at Umeå Film Festival, Umeå, October 1999

• ”Queer as Folk or Straight as Hell: Desperately Seeking Feminist Film Theory at the Turn of the Century”, paper presented at the NorFa-Conference, Copenhagen University, September 1999

• “Transatlantic Transgender: The Self Represented by the Other”, paper presented at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference, San Diego, April 1998

• “Multi Media within Film Studies: An Evaluation Project”, paper presented at the Digital Resources for the Humanities, Oxford University, England, September 1997

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Guest Lectures (within the Academia)

• “Male Elegance: On Belonging and Exclusion”, open lecture given at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, March 2010

• “Buggering Freud and Deleuze”, open lecture held at Univeristà di Bari, Italy, May 2009

• “Buggering Freud and Deleuze”, open lecture given at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, March 2009

• “Straight heroes and queer ideals” paper presented at The Graduate Center at the Symposium “Costume and the Movies” at the City University of New York, February 2009

• “Popular Cinema and the Swedish 1930s” + “Dior and Hitch”, lectures held at Univeristà di Bari, Italy, December 2007

• ”Social Democracy and Swedish Male Film Stars in 1930 Cinema”, lecture given at the Department of Communications, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 2007

• ”Fashion at SU”, lecture given at the Department of Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, Stockholm University, March 2007

• ”Gender and Pedagogy”, lecture, seminar and work shop given at the Caroline Institute for Medical Research, November 2006

• ”Gender and Pedagogy”, lecture, seminar and workshop given at the Department of Culture, Aesthetics, and Media Studies, Gothenburg University, November 2005

• ” Queer Perspectives on Advertisement: Making Sex, Making Sexuality”, lectures given at Berghs Schools of Communication, Stockholm, two lectures and seminars in September 2005, two lectures and seminars in December 2005, one lecture in October 2006, two lectures in October 2007

• ”The Media and Queer Theory”, lecture given at the Higher Seminar, Örebro University, Örebro, May 2005

• ” Representation and Analysis: How to Make Sex”, lecture and workshop given at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, September 2004

• ”Gaze, Sexuality, and Politics”, lecture given at the School of Film and Photography (Film- och fotohögskolan, Gothenburg, November 2003

• ”Embodyment and Feminist Theory”, lecture given at the postgraduate seminar at The School of Business, Stockholm University, December 2002 and October 2003

• ”Film analysis: narration and interpretation”, lectures, seminars and workshops given during two days at the Educational Program, Södertörn University, Stockholm, September 2003

• ”Straight Heroes, Queer Inclinations”, open lecture given to the faculty at the University of Oregon, May 2003

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• ”Multi Culturalism at the University”, lecture given at Stockholm university, October 2002

• ”Dykes on Screen”, lecture given at the Queer Seminar, Centre for Gender Studies, Stockholm University, September 2002

• ”Film, Gaze, and Sex”, lecture given at the School of Film and Photography (Film- och fotohögskolan), Gothenburg, May 2002

• ”Presentation of A Ph. D. Project: On Feminist Theory and Queer Cinema”, lecture given at the Department of Women’s Studies, University of Warwick, England, June 2001

Public Lectures/Media Interviews

• “Grace Kelly and Alfred Hitchcock”, interview on the National Swedish Radio for the program “Stil”, April 2010

• Interview on National Swedish television, “Go’ kväll”, on Harry Schein and male elegance, April 2010

• ”Vamp”, interview by the Swedish National Radio for the radio program on fashion history called ”Style”, May 2009 (20 min)

• ”Fashion, Film & Costume”, open lecture at the Symposium ”The Dream Factory” in Stockholm and the , April 2009

• ”Early cinema and the fashion industry”, interview by the Swedish National Radio for the radio program on fashion history called ”Style”, May 2008 (15 min)

• ”Cinema kisses”, interview by the Swedish National Radio for the radio program on fashion history called ”Style”, 2007 (15 min)

• ”Horror Film and Fashion: A Genre’s Style and Costume Codes”, lecture held at The Archive for Sound and Images, Stockholm, April 2007

• ”Film as Gender Technology”, lecture at the Symposium ”Mera Film!”, given to high school teachers, Uppsala University, November 2005

• ”Kön i rutan”/”Gender, Sex, and Television”, lecture given to employees at the Swedish Television Network (SVT), Stockholm, April 2005

• ”Television och genus”/”TV and Gender”, lecture given to employees at the Swedish Television Network (SVT), Umeå, June 2005

• ”Barndomsskildringar och sexuell identitet”/”Childhood Representations and Sexual Identity”, lecture given at Gothenburg Film Festival, February 2005

• ”How Film Creates Gender: Presenting Feminist Film Theory”, lecture given at Norrköping Film Festival, October 2004

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• ”Art, Aesthetics, and Ethics - Swedish and European Cinema”, lecture given to theBoard members of The Swedish Program, Stockholm University, June 2004

• “Fashion Studies”, interview by the Swedish National Radio on the new university subject fashion studies, October 2006 (20 min)

• ”Sjöström and Stiller: Representing Gender in Silence”, lecture given to members of Friends of Scandinavian Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, April 2003

• “Scandinavian Cinema in Context”, lecture given at FLIS (introduction to university studies for high school students), University of Oregon, April 2003

• “New Queer Cinema: A Look at Form, Content, and Variety”, presentation given at the Oregon Queer Film Festival, University of Oregon, March 2003

• “Abnorm - Konstens queera samtal”/”Abnorm – Art and Queer Dialogues”, participation in a panel discussion on art and queerness, at SOC, Stockholm, October 2002

• ”To Queer Alien”, participation in a discussion on the Alien films and queerness, on the Swedish National Radio (SVR), January 2001 (30 min)

• “Divas”, interview about drag queens and female divas within popular culture on the Swedish National Radio (SVR), August 2000 (45 min)

• Participation in a round table discussion on gender stereotypes in film on the radio show “Freja” on Swedish National Radio, November 1999 (20 min)

• ”Girls on Film: On Gender Stereotyping in Youth Film”, lecture given at Zita on request from Folkets Bio, October 1998

Administrative, Academic, and Other Experiences

Administrative

• Member of the Board of The Humanities Faculty at Stockholm University, January 1st 2009 – present day

• Member of the Board for Employment of Lecturers at The Humanities Faculty, Stockholm University, January 1st 2009 – present day

• Director of the Centre for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University, January 1st 2007 – present day

• Director of Studies and educational developer of the undergraduate courses and of the master program, Centre for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University, July 1st 2006 – present day

• Board member of the Board for Fashion Studies at Stockholm university since January 1st 2006 – present day

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• Evaluator of CUT!, a multimedia project and teaching tool (used in film studies), Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, 1996-97

• Manager of Archives, Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, 1996

Academic

• Co-organizer of the international symposium “Fashion+Film: Revisiting the 1960s, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, March 2010

• Co-organizer of the international symposium “Fashion and Materiality”, Stockholm University, October 2009

• Co-organizer of FASHION DAY at the Stockholm University Library, May 2008

• Organizer of the international Symposium “Fashion Studies: Interactions”, Stockholm University, September 2008

• Co-organizer of the Nordic Workshop on Fashion Studies held at Stockholm University, May 2008 (with 45 Nordic scholars participating)

• Coordinator of the international symposium “Fashion Studies: Perspectives for the Future”, Stockholm University, September 2006

• Chair of two sessions at the American and Europena Business History Conference in Milano, June 2009

• Respondent to dr. Elspeth Probyn’s paper and presentation (Sidney University), at “Making Personhood”, an international conference arranged by dr. Beverly Skeggs (Lancaster University) in Stockholm in June 2007

• Chair, the international symposium “Fashion Studies: Perspectives for the Future”, Stockholm University, September 2006

• Chair, the Popular European Cinema Conference, Stockholm University, June 2003

• Chair, the “Affective Encounters Conference”, Turku University, Finland, September 2001

• Chair, the Nordic conference “Women in the Academia”, organized by the journal Häften för Kritiska Studier at Stockholm University, 1996

• Coordinator of the Nordic conference “Women in the Academia”, organized by the journal Häften för Kritiska Studier at Stockholm University, 1996

• Editor together with Dr. Dirk Gindt for the anthology Mode: introduction till modevetenskap (Stockholm: Raster förlag, 2009)

• Member of the editorial board for the Swedish academic journal Häften för Kritiska Studier, 1995-2001

• Reviewer of film studies literature for the Open University Press, UK, 2007

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• Reviewer for the Norwegian academic journal Norsk medietidskrift, 2006

• Reviewer for the British academic journal Culture and Organization (London: Routledge), 2002-2003

• Editorial assistant for Tytti Soila, ed, Dialoger: feministisk filmteori texter i praktik (Stockholm: Aura, 1997)

Pedagogical

• Director of Studies, Centre for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University, 2006 – present day

• Educational developer and instructor of various courses in university pedagogy, Centre for Teaching and Learning, aka UPC, Stockholm University, 2003-2006

• Pedagogical consultant to various departments at Stockholm University (Department of Sociology, Department of International Relations, Department of Social Work etc)

• Pedagogical consultant (regarding the Bologna Process and the transition to ECTS and a new grading system), Department of Cinema studies, Stockholm University, Spring and Fall 2005

• Pedagogical consultant (regarding gender and diversity issues), Department of Culture, Aesthetics, and Media Studies, Gothenburg University, Fall 2005 and Spring 2006

• Evaluator of the current forms, and developer of new forms focusing on learning and teaching practices, for the Teaching Excellence Awards at Stockholm University, 2005

Guest Researcher and/or Professor

March 2010 Professor, Film Studies, Columbia University, New York, USA

January-March 2009 Professor, the German and Scandinavian Studies Dept. at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA

November 2007 Researcher, Dept. of Communication, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA

January-April 2006 Researcher, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Stanford University USA

January-July 2003 Professor and Researcher, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature, University of Oregon, USA

May 2001 Researcher, Dept. of Cinema Studies, New York University USA

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February-July 2001 Researcher, Dept. of Film and TV Studies, University of Warwick, England

September-January 1998 Researcher, Dept. of Film and TV Studies, University of Warwick, England

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