Need inspiration for your lesson plan? Below are some idea seeds to build your lectures and/or workshops. Please get in touch if you’d be interested in guest lectures—I’d be happy to visit (in the greater Stockholm area) or beam in virtually.

Topic: dietary advice in the age of gut hacks and microbiome research
(relevant disciplines: sociology, STS, medical humanities, media/cultural studies, food studies)

Appropriate for: undergraduate students, graduate students

• Beforehand (either as homework or in-class): watch the documentary Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut. Available on Netflix in many countries.
• Read: “Brokering the gut: microbial decoys in the documentary Hack Your Health” co-written with Erika Zurawski; available at DOI: 10.1057/s41599-025-06260-2
  
• Concepts/observations to potentially discuss
  • sociology: Robert Crawford’s healthism, health systems and the (bio)hacking they enable, sociological perspectives on choice
  • STS: hierarchies of expertise, the gut as a boundary object, the politics of communicating this particular microbial science, privacy tensions with personalised recommendations via an app, human bodies as more-than-human or akin to the figure of Donna Haraway’s cyborg
  • medical humanities: how dysbiosis is constructed as ‘illness,’ Daniell’s case as a ‘disability,’ theorising the gut, normative narratives of cure and control
  • media/cultural studies: representations of microbes, how patients are interpellated to act, methodological affordances of a close ‘reading’ of documentaries
  • food studies: historical repetition of the ABC dietary advice, the performativity of the smoothie scene, the myth of choice, normative heal

Topic: multispecies/multisensory methodologies and their practical challenges
(relevant disciplines: anthropology, geography, sensory studies)

Appropriate for: graduate students, best conducted as a longer seminar/workshop format

• Beforehand (either as homework or in-class): assign moment of observing a species of choice.
• Read: “Sensoriographic Sensibilities: Immersing, Recording, and Storying the Senses in Multispecies Worlds.” co-written with L. Sasha Gora, Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova, Philine Schiller, Lena M. Schlegel, and Penelope Volinia. Not yet available. Forthcoming Fall 2026.
  
• More to come, once the article is published!