Elisabeth L. Engebretsen

Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for gender research at the University of Oslo, Norway and a member of the independent Forskerkollektivet. She is the author of Queer women in urban China: An ethnography (Routledge 2014), which was awarded the 2014 Ruth Benedict Book Award honorable mention from the Association of Queer Anthropology, American Anthropological Association. Engebretsen co-edited Anthropology’s queer sensibilities, a Sexualities special issue (2017), Queer/tongzhi China: New perspectives on research, activism and media cultures (NIAS Press 2015), and Generations of feminist activism in China (forthcoming). Engebretsen is currently working on a manuscript on the modern history of pride politics, queer public visibility and activism in Norway.