Research
I am currently doing research on literary value in Swedish and American literature 1900-1970 in a collaborative project with Anna Forssberg . My previous research efforts primarily concern American modernism, specifically American expatriate writers and their autobiograhies, intertextuality, and collaborative writing.
Teaching
I teach English at Karlstad University, especially literature courses at different levels. I also supervise a doctoral student and students writing various types of essays, and work with translation and proofreading.
Collaboration
I am a member of the Research Group for Culture Studies at Karlstad University (KuFo).
Selected publications
"Omdömen, omvändelser, omvärdering- Edward Dahlberg, Leon Larsson och den litterära avbönen." Arbetarlitteratur bortom kanon: Nordiska perspektiv. Beata Agrell, Anna Forssberg & Magnus Nilsson (red.), Malmö University Studies in Class and Culture 1, 2024, 27-44.
"Post-Plantation and Post-Hawthorne Poputchik Writing: The Peculiarly American Time and Place of Julia Peterkin's Scarlet Sister Mary." European Journal of American Studies, 19:2, 2024.
“’An age that is slipping out and an age that is hastening in’: Värdet av skönlitterär sociologisk analys i Gustaf Hellströms Snörmakare Lekholm får en idé och Ellen Glasgows In This Our Life” i Samlaren 144, 2023, 207–235.
“Vilda pojkar, värde och varaktighet. Litterärt värde och värdering i fallen Sigfrid Siwertz Mälarpirater och Marjorie Rawlings The Yearling.” Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 52:2-3, 2022.
“Being Geniuses Together: Ghostwriting and the Uncanny of Robert McAlmon’s and Kay Boyle’s (Out of) Joint Autobiography”, European Journal of American studies [Online], 12-2, 2017.
“’Between Two Covers with Somebody Else’: Authority, Authorship, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.” Authority Matters: Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Authorship. Stephen Donovan, Danuta Fjellestad, and Rolf Lundén (eds.). Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2008.
The True Story of Alice B. Toklas. University of Iowa Press, 2006. ISBN 0-87745-985-1.
“Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.” Rethinking Literary History and Genre through Gender. Åsa Johansson and Petra Ragnerstam (eds.). Uppsala University Press, 2005.
“The True Story of Alice B. Toklas. Almost the Same but not Quite/not Straight in the Toklas Autobiographies.” Dissertation. Uppsala University, 2004.