Eleanor Armstrong
Profile
Biography
Affiliation: Institute of Space Research, University of Leicester, UK
Dr Armstrong (she/her) is an incoming Space Research Fellow (at University of Leicester's Institute for Space Research), and an outgoing Postdoctoral Researcher (Stockholm University). Her primary research interest is outer space and space sciences through a queer feminist framework. Here she theorises the public pedagogies of outer space, understanding what and how we learn about space - from official cultural actors (museums, memorials, Barbie) to unofficial and often activist organisers (zinesters, space camp facilitators, or Girls in STEM groups).
Dr Armstrong's secondary research interest is the narrative constructions of geology and mineralogy collections at museums and universities, and working to pluralize the themes and focuses of collections displays through work with emerging museum professionals and curators.
Publications
Selected publications
- "To Queerly Go" (Quest: The History of Space Flight Quarterly, 2024) Armstrong & Rand.
- "Labours of Excavation" (Journal of Natural Science Collections, 2024) Armstrong & Oromeng
- “The crowded and empty Arctic” (Lychnos, 2024) Klinger, Bennett, Adams & Armstrong. https://doi.org/10.48202/25085
- “Science Butch Blues” (Queer STS Forum, 2023) Armstrong & Danielsson.
- “The Trouble with Space Auctions” (Historical Studies of Natural Science, 2023) Armstrong & Bimm. https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2023.53.4.425
- “Feminist Approaches to Outer Space” (Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space, 2023) Gál & Armstrong. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003280507-15
- “Queering Science Museums, Science Centres, and Other Public Science Institutions” (Queering Science Communication, 2023) Armstrong & Lock. https://doi-org.ezp.sub.su.se/10.2307/jj.2430363.15