Dr Nadja Stamselberg

Dr Nadja Stamselberg received her PhD in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2008. She has held academic appointments at Kingston University and Queen Mary University of London, and since 2012 has served as Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Regent’s University London. She also guest lectures at City, University of London, and has taught at the London campus of Syracuse University, New York.

Dr Stamselberg’s research is situated at the intersection of cultural theory, migration studies, and visual culture, with a particular focus on the politics of borders, identity, and representation. She is the co-editor of Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste (I.B. Tauris, 2014), a volume featuring contributions from leading scholars including Zygmunt Bauman, Sandro Mezzadra, and Nikos Papastergiadis. The publication critically interrogates dominant cultural narratives surrounding migration and displacement through an interdisciplinary lens. Her subsequent article, On the Right Side – Borders of Belonging (Skepsi, University of Kent, Vol. 9, 2018), further develops this inquiry, examining the construction of cultural and political belonging.

Alongside her academic research, Dr Stamselberg maintains an active artistic practice. Her work explores the space between perception and knowledge, investigating the tensions between visibility and meaning. Since October 2023, she has worked as Curator of the Knapp Gallery at Regent’s University London, where she leads a dynamic exhibition programme featuring the work of students, staff, and invited artists.

• October 2023- present: Regent’s University London - Knapp Gallery Curator
• September 2018 - present: Regent’s University London - Lecturer in Art History and Cultural Studies
• May 2023 – present: IES Abroad - Lecturer
• September 2012 – September 2018: Regent’s University London - Visiting Lecturer in Cultural Studies
• May 2018 – June 2018: Syracuse University, London - Adjunct Professor
• December 2011 – March 2015: Leuphana University Lüneburg
Centre for Digital Culture - International Ethnographer

BA (HONS) Fine Art Painting, Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London

MA Arts Criticism, City University, London
Dissertation: Mapping Transgression, A Reading of Mario Vargas Llosa’s ‘In Praise of the Stepmother’

CELTA Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults, International House, London

PhD Cultural Studies, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
Dissertation: The ‘Exclusive’ Identity – Identity of Exclusion Within the Community of Europe

PGCHE, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy Regent’s University, London

Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London

MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London

• ‘On the Right Side – Borders of Belonging’, Skepsi, University of Kent, Volume 9, 2018 
• ‘Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste’ ed. Nadja Stamselberg and Juliet Steyn, I.B. Tauris, Summer 2014
• From Exclusion to Hospitality; From Transgression to Cultural Difference; The European Pendulum’ in ‘Teresa Pinheiro, Beata Cieszynska and Eduardo Franco (2012): Ideas of/for Europe.
• An Interdisciplinary Approach to European Identity. Frankfurt et al.: Peter Lang ‘The European Identity: A real construct or a construction of the real? in Euroopan kymmenen kohtalonkysymysta, ed. Otto Bruun and Hanna Kuusela, Gaudeamus/Helsinki University Press, Helsinki, June 2009
• ‘On Movement: Sandro Mezzadra and the Politics of Migration’, The Myth of Europa, January 2009, p.14 ‘The World of Cheongsam’, in ‘The review of Mapping Motifs: An exploratory journey through fashion, cities and identities’
•  Art Post: The Art Information Portal for Galleries and Art Buyers, 2007, http://artpost.info/postscript 
• ‘The Cartography of Fashion’ in Game On, The Fashion World Conquest, ed. Wessie Ling, Exhibit, London, November 2006
• ‘Extraordinary Journeys, the works of Barbara McGivern’, in McGivern, exhibition catalogue, 2004, introduction 'Confusions in the Historical' in Journal for Northeast Issues, Hamburg, number 2, June 2003, p.53

• Renaissance Art and Society
• Identity
• Migration
• Belonging
• Cultural History and Memory

Capstone Supervision

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

• Renaissance Art and Society
• Understanding the Global Art Market
• Core Concepts in Media