Linköping University, Sweden
Nina Lykke is professor of Gender Studies with special reference to Gender and Culture at Linköping University, Sweden.
She is director of an international Centre of Gender Excellence, GEXcel, as well as scientific leader of a Nordic and a Swedish-International Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. She has extensive international experience from numerous cross-national projects and networks in gender research and education in Gender Studies. From 2001-2005, she was managing director of AOIFE (Association of Institutions of Feminist Education and Research in Europe), and she is also a longstanding member of the lead-team of the European thematic network in Womens Studies, Athena.
She is associate editor of the European Journal of Womens Studies and advisor for several other scholarly feminist journals. She is managing co-editor (together with Jeff Hearn) of the book series Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality.