Background and experience
Professor, History - University of Agder - 2025 - ongoing
President, Society for Menstrual Cycle Research - 2025 - ongoing
Associate Professor, History - University of Agder - 2022 - 2025
Lecturer, History of Art - University of Aberdeen - 2021-2022
Postdoc, Visual Studies - University of Leeds - 2020-2021
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Art History - University of St Andrews - 2017-2020
Resident Historian - Viking Cruises - 2017 - ongoing
PhD, Art History - University of Manchester - 2012-2017
Areas of responsibility
Mørk Røstvik is Professor of History. She specialises in 20th and 21st cultural histories of menstruation. She is currently working on a project about the archetype of the witch in Norway.
She is currently the President of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. She is also Honorary Lecturer in the School of Medicine and the School of Art History at Aberdeen, and Honorary Research Fellow in Art History at the University of St Andrews.
Mørk Røstvik holds a Bachelors degree in Art History from the University of Oslo (2011), a Masters degree in Art History from the University of Manchester (2012), and a PhD from the University of Manchester (2016).
Teaching
Bachelor, Master and PhD in Art History, History, or Arts.
Happy to supervise topics related to the history of reproduction, women's and gender history, modern history of technology, medical humanities, the history of menstruation, neopaganism, Wicca, and modern witch history / witches and memory culture both internationally and in Scandinavia.
Research
Selected publications
Her first monograph was Cash Flow: The Businesses of Menstruation (UCL Press, 2022), and her most recent book Period Art: A Visual History of Menstruation (McGill Queen's University Press, 2024).
Mørk Røstvik'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 writing has also appeared in the Wellcome Trust Stories blog series, BBC Radio, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, The Conversation, and Discard Studies.
Selected projects
Mørk Røstvik is the current President of The Society for Menstrual Cycle Research.
She co-established The Menstruation Research Network UK in the United Kingdom in 2018. Since then, she has led several major research projects funded by The Wellcome Trust and remains the chair of the group.
From 2024, Mørk Røstvik collaborated with colleagues at the University of Agder (UiA) on the project Remembering Witches (documentation available here), which focuses on the absence of a memorial for the witch trials in Agder.
Røstvik co-organizes the feminist reading group at UiA, is a member of the QiA research forum, Arts & Conflict, and Claimed Pasts.