Kata Kyrölä University College London

Dr. Kata Kyrölä is an Associate Professor in Media Studies at the department of Culture, Communication and Media, the IOE, University College London and Docent in Gender Studies and Media Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. Their most recent research explores queer Indigenous and Sámi sensibilities in contemporary media. Their earlier work has addressed themes such as trigger warnings online, media and body image, fat and queer digital activism, pornography use, and racialized politics of ‘bad feeling’. Their publications include The Weight of Images: Affect, Body Image and Fat in the Media (2014), The Power of Vulnerability: Mobilising Affect in Feminist, Queer and Anti-racist Media Cultures (2018, co-edited with Anu Koivunen and Ingrid Ryberg), a special issue on Nordic queer cinema (2021, co-editor) for lambda nordica and articles in journals such as Feminist Theory, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Camera Obscura, Sexualities and Social Media + Society.