Margrit Shildrick

Margrit Shildrick
Academic background
Education	University of Sussex (BA) University of Liverpool (MSc, 1991) University of Warwick (PhD, 1994) Queen's University Belfast (PCHET, 2007)
Thesis	Leaky Bodies and Boundaries. Feminism, Deconstruction and Bioethics  (1994)
Doctoral advisor	Christine Battersby and Hilary Graham

Margrit Shildrick is an academic in interdisciplinary gender studies whose research spans feminism, bioethics, and post-structuralism, among other fields of thought. Since 2018, she has served as a guest professor at Stockholm University.

Education

Shildrick earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Sussex, a Master of Science in the ethics of health care from the University of Liverpool (1991), a Doctor of Philosophy in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Warwick (1994), and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education and Teaching from Queen's University Belfast (2007). ^[1]

Career

Shildrick has lectured at Open University (1991-1994), the University of Warwick (1994), the University of Liverpool (1993-1995), Lancaster University (1994-1995; 1997-1998), the University of Leeds (1995-1996), and Staffordshire University (1998-2001; 2001-2002). From 2003 to 2004, Shildrick was a visiting professor and director of the critical disability studies program at York University. From 2011 to 2017, she was a professor at Linköping University, after which she became a guest professor at Stockholm University, a position she continues to hold in January 2025. ^[1]

Shildrick has held research fellowships at University College Dublin (2001-2004), Cornell University (2003), Macquarie University (2005), the University of Sydney (2005), the University of Toronto (2005-2007), Queen's University Belfast (2005-2009), Linköping University (2009), and Australian National University (2018). ^[1]

Books

Authored

• Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)ethics. Routledge. 1997. ISBN   978-0-415-14616-6. ^[2]
• Embodying the Monster: Encounters with the Vulnerable Self. Sage. 2002. ISBN   978-1-446-23635-2. ^[3]
• Dangerous Discourses: Subjectivity, Sexuality and Disability. Palgrave Macmillan. 2009. ISBN   978-0-230-24464-1.
• Visceral Prostheses: Somatechnics and Posthuman Embodiment. Bloomsbury. 2023. ISBN   978-1-350-22494-0.

Edited

• Price, Janet; Shildrick, Margrit, eds. (1998). Vital Signs: Feminist Reconfigurations of the Bio/logical Body. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN   978-0-748-60963-5. ^{[4] [5]}
• Price, Janet; Shildrick, Margrit, eds. (1999). Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN   978-0-415-92566-2. ^[4]
• Shildrick, Margrit; Mykitiuk, Roxanne, eds. (2005). Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges. MIT Press. ISBN   978-0-262-69320-2. ^[6]
• Shildrick, Margrit; Giffney, Noreen, eds. (2013). Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN   978-1-137-31547-2.

References

1. "Margrit Shildrick". Stockholm University . Retrieved 2025-01-02.^{[ non-primary source needed ]}
2. Marshall, Jane (December 1998). "A review of: "Leaky bodies and boundaries: feminism, postmodernism and (Bio) ethics"" . European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling. 1 (3): 490–493. doi:10.1080/13642539808400538. ISSN   1364-2537.
3. Pearson, Joanne (May 2003). "Book Reviews" . European Journal of Cultural Studies. 6 (2): 247–248. doi:10.1177/1367549403006002007. ISSN   1367-5494.
4. "Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader and Vital Signs: Feminist Reconfigurations of the Bio/Logical Body" . Journal of Medical Humanities. 26 (1): 67–70. April 2005. doi:10.1007/s10912-005-1054-z. ISSN   1041-3545 – via Springer.
5. Amir, Delila (November 2001). "Vital Signs: Feminist Reconfigurations of The Bio/Logical Body" . Women's Studies International Forum. 24 (6): 746–748. doi:10.1016/S0277-5395(01)00212-6.
6. Roberts, Celia; Throsby, Karen (2006-07-01). "Contemporary Challenges to Bioethics" . Australian Feminist Studies. 21 (50): 289–291. doi:10.1080/08164640600731846. ISSN   0816-4649.

External links

• Margrit Shildrick publications indexed by Google Scholar