Professor of Gender Studies, Chair in Sex Media and Sex Cultures, Linköping University
João Florêncio is Professor of Gender Studies and chair of Sex Media and Sex Cultures at Linköping University, Sweden. A queer cultural scholar of embodiment and sexuality, his research focuses on the interfacing between the body, media technologies, and sex in contemporary culture. João’s work has appeared in The Sociological Review, Sexualities, Radical History Review, Porn Studies, and Somatechnics, among other journals of reference. He is the author of Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures: The Ethics of Becoming-Pig (Routledge, 2020)
Experience
2023–present
Professor of Gender Studies, Linköping University
2019–2023
Senior Lecturer in History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, University of Exeter
2015–2019
Lecturer in History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, University of Exeter
Education
2014
Goldsmiths, University of London, PhD Visual Cultures
2012
Goldsmiths, University of London, PG Certificate Management of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
2008
University of Greenwich, MA Media Arts Philosophy
2006
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Licenciatura Musicology
Grants and Contracts
2023
The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945–2000
Role:
Principal Investigator
Funding Source:
Arts and Humanities Research Council
2019
Masculinity and the Ethics of Porosity in "Post-AIDS" Gay Porn
Role:
Principal Investigator
Funding Source:
Arts and Humanities Research Council
2016
Rock/Body: Performative Interfaces Between the Geologic and the Body
Role:
Principal Investigator
Funding Source:
Arts and Humanities Research Council
Professional Memberships
Higher Education Academy
Association for Cultural Studies
Honours
Honorary Professor in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of Exeter, UK (2023–2026)