Visiting Scholar in Sexuality Studies Talk with Katherine Hubbard

Date: April 22, 2025
Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm ET
Location: Online
Register: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/C-XVQvXpQTmwMC1xcokM2Q

Katherine Hubbard is Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey. Her research and teaching are interdisciplinary, including sociological, psychological and historical components. At present, she is centrally focused on research areas pertaining to feminist histories of Psychology, sexuality, and queer studies. Her work takes a distinctive affirmative and inclusive approach. She is especially known for multi-methods research on queer feminist British history, analysis of gendered power within Psychology and broad applications of queer theory. Her books include Queer Ink: A Blotted History Towards Liberation (2020) and A Feminist Companion to Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology (2024). Her current book-based project is Queer Studies: The Basics (due 2025) with co-author and collaborator Dr David Griffiths. Other recent collaborations include, the excavation of feminist voices in Psychology in the UK, an LGBTQ+ inclusive historical analysis of aversion therapy as practised in the UK, and a project studying the role of affect when doing queer history.

She is one of the founding members of the Sex, Gender and Sexuality Research Group at the University of Surrey, is a past Chair of the University LGBTQI Equality Group, and was the first Programme Director for the interdisciplinary MSc course in Sex, Gender and Sexuality studies having established it. She is also a Co-I on the FUTURESEX initiative which aims to bridge academic, activist and community groups and an international member of Psychology's Feminist Voices. She received the American Psychological Association (Society for the History of Psychology Division 26) career award (2024).