Academic work/writings

Key works

Guest Editor – Art & the Public Sphere journal, for the special issue ‘The Body, Anatomy, and Aesthetics’.

Guest Editor- Sexualities journal, for the special issue ‘Queer Immunities/Immunologies, Queer Virology’, drawing on work done as a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge.

Articles

Danil, L.R. (2025) Introduction: Queer immunities/immunology, queer virology. Sexualities.

Linda Roland Danil (2025) Review Essay: Art, political economy, and art as a human right: Eva Maria Stadler & Jenni Tischer (eds.) Abstraction & Economy: Myths of Growth. Human Rights Quarterly.

Danil, L.R. and Dean. T. (2024) Viral Sensibilities: A Conversation with Tim Dean. Sexualities.

Danil, L. R. (2021) Queerphobic Immunopolitics in the Case of HIV/AIDS: Political Economy, the Dark Legacy of British Colonialism, and Queerphobia in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sexuality & Culture 25, 377–395. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-020-09774-w

Danil, Linda Roland (2021). Attribution on a Work of Art, the Author, Identity and the Self in the Courtroom: the Case of Thwaytes v. Sotheby’s. Law, Culture and the Humanities, 17(2), 246-260. https://doi.org/10.1177/1743872117694443

Danil, L. R. (2020) On facing the crucial psychosocial and political-economic dimensions of anthropogenic global warming. Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society, 25, 271–282. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-020-00165-6

Griffin, L., & Danil, L. R. (2019). Law’s Changing Bodies: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Law and Embodiment. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 45(1), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2019.1672613

Danil, Linda Roland. (2018). Weapons, desire and the making of war: a Lacanian response. Critical Studies on Security, 6(3), 330–342. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2018.1473670

Danil, Linda Roland. (2018). Introduction: Visual representations of war and violence: considering embodiment. Critical Studies on Security, 6(3), 344–346. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2018.1432533

Danil, L. R. Keyu and Others (2017): Derridean Hauntology and Lacanian-Žižekian Psychoanalysis in Between the Lines. Law and Critique 28, 43–60 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-016-9190-3

Danil, Linda Roland (2016) Trigger warnings, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and international security: making a link, Critical Studies on Security, 4(1), 121–124. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2016.1163940

Book chapters

The Future of Peace Betrayed: The UN Security Council and political, linguistic and psychoanalytic vulnerabilities. In:  ‘Future Wars: Storia Della Distopia Militare’ by the Società Italiana di Storia Militare. 2016.

Book Reviews

Linda Roland Danil (2025), Meat Love: An Ideology of the Flesh by Amber Husain (review), Human Rights Quarterly, 47(1). https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/951576

Danil, L. R. (2024). Book Review: The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media Sexualities, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607241285081

Danil, L. R. (2024). Book review: AIDS & Representation: Queering portraiture during the AIDS crisis in America, Sexualities, 0(0), https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607241266082

Danil, L. R. (2024). [Review of the book Animals and Capital, by Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel]. Human Rights Quarterly 46(4), 729-734. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2024.a941754

Danil, L. R. (2022). Bodies Unbound: Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy, by Piper Sledge. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 25(1), 148–150. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2022.2125892

Danil, L. R. (2021). Review of the book The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes, by Jill Richards. Human Rights Quarterly 43(4), 831 – 835. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2021.0052

Danil, L. R. (2022). Book Review: Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines. Sexualities, 25(5-6), 842-844. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607211008700

Danil, L. R. (2021). Senthorun Sunil Raj, Feeling Queer Jurisprudence: Injury, Intimacy, Identity. Sexualities, 24(8), 1100-1103. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460720947319

Danil, L. R. (2022). [Review of the book Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization, by David Livingstone Smith]. Human Rights Quarterly 44(4), 848-853. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2022.0037

Danil, L.R. (2020). [Review of the book After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China, by Howard Chiang]. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 75(1), 116-118. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/746894.

Danil, Linda Roland (2019) Book Review: The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science and the Great War, BMJ Medical Humanities Blog February 4 [Online] Available from: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2019/02/04/the-human-body-in-the-age-of-catastrophe-brittleness-integration-science-and-the-great-war/?fbclid=IwAR1_bpmU2FvRVCi7e37WkVOYnDT5-aOSdrQIPKjQGnEy28o7HhhIQ_Ofwz8

Danil, L. R. (2017). Queer stories of Europe. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 25(3), 383–385. https://doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2017.1401852

Danil, L. R. (2016). Crossing the color line: race, sex, and the contested politics of colonialism in Ghana. African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, 10(2), 228–230. https://doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2016.1224059

Danil L. R. (2016) Book review: Žižek and Law, edited by Laurent de Sutter.  Legal Studies. 36(2):386-393. doi:10.1111/lest.12126

Danil, Linda Roland. Book review: Tony Prosser, The Economic Constitution. 4 June 2014, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books.

Danil, Linda Roland. Anne Phillips, Our Bodies, Whose Property? December 2013, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books.

Danil, Linda Roland. Rosemary Hunter, Clare McGlynn and Erika Rackley (eds), Feminist Judgments: From Theory to Practice, 7 July 2013, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books.

Danil, Linda Roland. Luis Suarez-Villa
Globalization and Technocapitalism: The Political Economy of Corporate Power and Technological Domination. 3 September 2012. Marx and Philosophy Review of Books.

Blog posts

We need a new, enforceable international climate change agreement — Dr Linda Roland Danil, UK Human Rights Blog [Online] 8 October 2018. Available from: https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/?p=39073

Guest Blog Post: Legal personhood for non-human animals: Part II – Dr Linda Roland Danil, UK Human Rights Blog [Online] 1 June 2018 Available from: https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2018/06/01/legal-personhood-for-non-human-animals-part-ii-dr-linda-roland-danil/ 

Guest Blog Post: Legal personhood for non-human animals? The case of the Non-Human Rights Project — Dr Linda Roland Danil, UK Human Rights Blog [Online] 26 April 2018 Available from: https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2018/04/26/legal-personhood-for-non-human-animals-the-case-of-the-non-human-rights-project-dr-linda-roland-danil/

Guest Blog Post: A commentary on Cassirer v Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation: the case of a Nazi-confiscated artwork, Boodle Hatfield art law blog [Online] 24 October 2017. Available from: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=cbfa581e-f40c-4158-8a89-f3658d7dcfa9

Masterpiece by Bernardo Bellotto purchased by London National Gallery consequent to temporary export bar, Sheppard Mullin art law blog [Online] Available from: https://www.artlawgallery.com/2017/11/articles/art-galleries/bellotto-export-licence/

Deconstructing Copyright, Critical Legal Thinking [Online] 8 April 2013. Available from: http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/04/08/deconstructing-copyright/

Guest editorial work

• Guest Editor of an Art & the Public Sphere journal special issue: ‘The Body, Anatomy, and Aesthetics’: CFP can be found here: https://arthist.net/archive/44878

• Guest Editor of a Sexualities special issue: Queer Immunities/Immunologies, Queer Virology (2024 – 2025) : CFP can be found here: https://arthist.net/archive/38903

• Guest Co-Editor (with Dr. Laura Griffin) of a special issue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal: Law, The Body and Embodiment: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives. 2019.  

• Guest Editor for vol.1, 2018 Interventions Issue: Visual Representations of War and Violence: Considering Embodiment; Critical Studies on Security.

Events

Invitation to be a symposium and roundtable speaker at Queer and Trans Testimonies from the Holocaust to 2023, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.