Biography

Camilla is Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Art History at Aberdeen. She specialises in 20th and 21st century visual culture, with a longstanding research interest in the history, cultures, and art of menstruation. Her interests include feminist art history and art projects, environmental humanities, medical humanities, feminist Science & Technology Studies, and Norwegian/Sámi art histories.

Camilla's work has appeared in Technology & Culture, Oxford Art Journal, Environment & Society, Enterprise and History, and Leonardo. She has written in Norwegian for Tidsskrift for Norsk Kjønnsforskning and Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. Her most recent book is Cash Flow: The Businesses of Menstruation (UCL Press, 2022), and she is working on a new book entitled The Painters Are In: A Visual History of Menstruation (McGill Queen's University Press, 2024). Camilla's writing has also appeared in the Wellcome Trust Stories blog series, BBC Radio, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, The Conversation, and Discard Studies.

Camilla leads the Wellcome Trust funded Menstruation Research Network UK (2022-2025) and led the Scottish Government funded project Arctic Periods: Transnational Knowledge about Menstrual History (2021-22). She is Co-PI on the Royal Society of Edinburgh funded 'Ending Period Poverty in Scotland' research project (2020-2022), and was PI on the Wellcome Trust funded Menstruation Research Network UK (2019-2020).

Camilla worked at Leeds University from 2020-2021, on the AHRC-funded project 'Generic Visuals in the News: The Role of Stock Photos and Simple Data Visualizations in Assembling Publics'. From 2017-2020, she was Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of St Andrews, and she remains a Honorary Research Fellow there, where she collaborates with the Centre for Contemporary Art on the artist-in-residency project Blood Lines.

I welcome enquiries from PhD students interested in:

• Feminist art history
• Menstruation
• Science & Technology Studies
• Medical humanities

Funding and Grants

PI, Scottish Government Arctic Connections Fund, Arctic Periods: Transnational Knowledge about Menstrual History and Wellbeing, 2021-2022

PI, Aberdeen University Internal Pump-Prime funding, Menstruation Research Network, 2021-2022

PI, The Wellcome Trust, Menstruation Research Network UK: Beyond Products, 2022-2025

Co-PI, Royal Society of Edinburgh network award, 'Ending Period Poverty in Scotland', 2020-2022

PI, The Wellcome Trust, Menstruation Research Network UK, 2019-2020

PI, The Leverhulme Trust, Early Career Fellow, University of St Andrews, 2017-2020