Cristian Norocel

Background

In 2014, I became Doctor of Social Sciences (Politices Doktor) in Political Sciences at the University of Helsinki with the thesis "Our People a Tight-knit Family at the Same Protective Roof: A Critical Study of Gendered Conceptual Metaphors at Work in Radical Right Populism". In 2017, I was awarded the title of Docent (Dosentti) in Political Sciences at the University of Helsinki. The same year I was employed for 2 years as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. In 2019, I took up the position of Associate Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Lund University.

Research areas

• Intersectional perspectives on politics

• Critical masculinity studies and right-wing extremism

• Anti-gender campaigns and retrogressive politics in Europe

• Gender, social media, affect and (right-wing populist) politics

• Critical qualitative methods

Ongoing research and teaching

My research focuses mainly on issues of right-wing populist and extreme right political communication; political discourses aimed at normalizing extreme right opinions; as well as the construction and maintenance of various power hierarchies within anti-gender discourses. I examine these phenomena in a comparative perspective both in the Nordic countries, with a focus on Sweden and Finland, as well as in Central Europe, with focus on Hungary and Romania.

I teach and supervise at all levels.