Director of studies

I’m a senior lecturer in English and teach literature and academic writing; as of January 2024, I am also director of studies for English. My dissertation – Silent Modernism: Soundscapes and the Unsayable in Richardson, Joyce, and Woolf (2014/2017) – explores silence in modernist fiction, and the representation of sound in literature is something that still interests me. Today, my research is primarily focused on 'the long 1950s' in American literature. I'm currently at work on a monograph about Sylvia Plath's poetry, and am generally interested in mid-century American poetry. Together with Sanna Melin Schyllert, I've started INNC (International Network of Nineteen-Fifties Culture), which yearly organizes symposia focused on the long 1950s in American culture. My research has been awarded by Vetenskapssocieteten in Lund and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters.