Shownotes: S1E6 Conversation with Camilla Mørk Røstvik

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About Camilla

Professor Camilla Mørk Røstvik is a Professor in History at the University of Agder, Norway and President of the Society or Menstrual Cycle Research. Until Summer 2022, she was a Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Art History at the University of Aberdeen, UK. She previously held research fellowships in History and Art History at the University of St Andrews; and at the University of Leeds. Her research interests lie in the intersection of the histories of science/medicine, the history of art, and gender studies, particularly in the mid-late twentieth century.

She is the author of Cash Flow: The Businesses of Menstruation (2022), and is the founder of the Wellcome Trust-funded Menstruation Network UK, and of the Scottish Government-funded project ‘The Arctic Period: Menstruation and Knowledge across Borders’. Her new book Period Art: The Visual Culture of Menstruation is due to be published in November 2026. It examines artists have used menstruation as both subject and material, challenging stigma by making the cycle visible, political, and creative.

camilla’s work

Mørk Røstvik C, Eidsaa RM, Fugli I et al. (2026) Remembering Witches: Missing Memorials and the Reimagining of the Historic Sorcery Trials in Agder . Routledge Open Res 2026, 4:13 https://doi.org/10.12688/routledgeopenres.21484.2

Røstvik, C.M. (2026). Birth knowledge and institutional experiences: Lyndsay Mann’s As You Were. In F. JOHNSTONE , A. MOREHEAD & I. WILTSHIRE (Eds), Art and the Critical Medical Humanities (pp. 187–190). London: Bloomsbury Academic. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350506367.ch-18

Mørk Røstvik C, (2025) ‘Grade-Three Witch’: The Alchemy of Menstruation, Historica, 48(3), https://doi.org/10.21827/historica.48.3.35-39

Camilla Mørk Røstvik (2025). Menstruation in medical and art history. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3699005

Camilla Mørk Røstvik (2024). Miss tampon liberty: The environmenstrual movement and art. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5129633

Camilla Mørk Røstvik, (2023) Breaking the Dam: Sámi Art Histories, Art History, Volume 46, Issue 2, April 2023, Pages 394–401, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12718

Fyfe, A., Moxham, N., McDougall-Waters, J., & Røstvik, C. M. (2022). A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015. UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2gz3zp1

Røstvik, C. M., Hughes, B. & Spencer, C., (2022) “The Red Gown: Reflections on the In/Visibility of Menstruation in Scotland”, Open Library of Humanities 8(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.6340

Camilla Mørk Røstvik (2021) 'Do N3ot Flush Feminine Products!' The Environmental History, Biohazards and Norms Contained in the UK Sanitary Bin Industry Since 1960. Environment and History 27, 549-579. 10.3197/096734019X15740974883807

RØSTVIK, C. M. (2020). Mother Nature as Brand Strategy: Gender and Creativity in Tampax Advertising 2007–2009. Enterprise & Society, 21(2), 413–452. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2019.36

Camilla Mørk Røstvik (2019) Blood Works: Judy Chicago and Menstrual Art Since 1970, Oxford Art Journal, Volume 42, Issue 3, December 2019, Pages 335–353, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcz021

Camilla Mørk Røstvik (2019) Blood Work: Menstrual Cycle Scholarship Comes of Age, Social History of Medicine, Volume 32, Issue 4, November 2019, Pages 867–871, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz072

Bee HughesSeptember 17, 2026