Dr Elena Gonzalez-Polledo FHEA

Staff details

Position

Senior Lecturer and Head of Department

Department

Anthropology

Email

e.gonzalez-polledo (@gold.ac.uk)

I am a social anthropologist, but my work crosses boundaries between academic disciplines.

I am a social anthropologist specialising in gender theory, science and technology studies, and digital anthropology. I have conducted research in the United Kingdom, North America and Europe.

I am currently working on two projects - an ethnography of everyday biotechnological experimentation, and a global anthropology of bioinformation.

Teaching and supervision

BA Anthropology

Research interests

Data Worlds and Futures: Archives, Bio information and Evidence (Wellcome Trust funded)
Communicating Chronic Pain - Interdisciplinary methods for non-verbal data (NCRM funded)
MEDEA - Models and their effects on development paths: an ethnographic and comparative approach (EU FP7)

I co-edit the book series Theorizing Ethnography: Concept, Context, Critique, published with Routledge Anthropology.

Publications and research outputs

Book

Boyce, P; Gonzalez-Polledo, EJ and Posocco, S. 2019. Queering Knowledge: Analytics, Devices and Investments after Marilyn Strathern. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781138230989

Gonzalez-Polledo, EJ. 2017. Transitioning: Matter, Gender, Thought. London: Rowman and Littlefield International. ISBN 9781783488445

Edited Book

Gonzalez-Polledo, EJ and Posocco, S, eds. 2021. Bioinformation Worlds and Futures. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780367409456

Gonzalez-Polledo, EJ and Tarr, Jen, eds. 2017. Painscapes: Communicating Pain. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan. ISBN 978-1-349-95271-7

Book Section

Gonzalez-Polledo, EJ and Posocco, S. 2021. Bioinformation Worlds and Futures: Introduction. In: EJ Gonzalez-Polledo and S Posocco, eds. Bioinformation Worlds and Futures. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780367409456

Gonzalez-Polledo, EJ. 2019. Wild Gender. In: Paul Boyce; EJ Gonzalez-Polledo and Silvia Posocco, eds. Queering Knowledge: Analytics, Devices and Investments after Marilyn Strathern. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781138230989

Boyce, Paul; Gonzalez-Polledo, EJ and Posocco, Silvia. 2019. Queering Knowledge: An Introduction. In: P Boyce; EJ Gonzalez-Polledo and S Posocco, eds. Queering Knowledge: Analytics, Devices and Investments after Marilyn Strathern. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781138230989

Article

Sarker, A; Lakamana, S; Guo, Y; Ge, Y; Leslie, A; Okunromade, O; Gonzalez-Polledo, EJ; Perrone, J and Mackenzie-Brown, AM. 2023. #ChronicPain: Automated Building of a Chronic Pain Cohort from Twitter Using Machine Learning. Health Data Science, 3, 0078. ISSN 2765-8783

Gonzalez-Polledo, EJ and Posocco, S. 2022. Forensic Apophenia: Sensing the Bioinformation Archive. Anthropological Quarterly, 95(1), pp. 97-123. ISSN 0003-5491

Gonzalez-Polledo, EJ and Posocco, S. 2021. Archives, promises, values: forensic infrastructures in times of austerity. Critique of Anthropology, 41(1), pp. 3-20. ISSN 0308-275X

Thesis

Gonzalez-Polledo Bermudez, Elena. 2010. From Transition To Transitioning: An Anthropological Study of Female To Male Transsexuality. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London

Teaching

I joined Goldsmiths as a lecturer in September 2017, having completed a PhD in the department of anthropology in 2010. In the meantime, I was a post-doc researcher in the FP7 funded project MEDEA - Models and their effects on development paths: an ethnographic and comparative approach. I also held an LSE Fellowship (2012-2014) and a Course Tutor position (2014-2016) at the London School of Economics. Before joining the department, I worked as a Lecturer in the University of Sheffield’s Faculty of Social Sciences.