Research
I am an interdisciplinary researcher at the crossroads of theater history and gender research. My main research focus is the actress' professional history, to which my dissertation from 2018 was a contribution, "Divine, nothing less than divine!" Actress Ellen Hartman's performances on stage and in public life. The dissertation and the articles I wrote during my doctoral studies were also a contribution to diva research and critical femininity studies. In my postdoctoral studies, I have further developed the concept of diva and dandy, and critical whiteness studies, but I am also interested in critical analysis of both contemporary and historical popular cultural phenomena. Since I am also an actress and theater director, my research is always based on situated knowledge.
In addition to writing peer-reviewed articles, I also regularly publish popular scientific texts. I also communicate my research in lectures of a more popular science form within the third task, outside universities and colleges.
Teaching
I teach a range of courses on undergraduate and graduate level in gender studies.
Selected publications
Monografi/Monography
”Gudomlig, ingenting mindre än gudomlig!” Skådespelerskan Ellen Hartmans
iscensättningar på scen och i offentligheten, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, Stockholms universitet, Diss. Stockholm: Stockholms universitet, 2018,Stockholm, 2018
Referee-granskade artiklar och bokkapitel/ Peer review articles and bookchapters
Ohlsson, Hélène, ”Skev sexualitet runt sekelskiftet 1900: Hur skådespelaren Gustaf Fredriksson blev homosexuell” Lambda Nordica, Skev, Vol. 26, No, 4–1, 2021, s. 23–49.
Ohlsson, Hélène, “Performing Nordic White Femininity: Two Swedish Divas in the U.S. in the Nineteenth-Century”, Nordic Theatre Studies on Transnational Influences, Vol. 32 no. 1, 2020, s. 54–70.
Andra vetenskapliga artiklar och bokkapitel/ Other scientific articles and bookchapters
Ohlsson, Hélène, ”Världar av poesi: Skådespelerskan Emilie Högqvist i Rom 1842–43”, kapitel i antologin Luften så klar: Nordeuropeiska författare och konstnärer i Rom 1780–1950, Stockholm: Makadam förlag, 2020.
Ohlsson, Hélène, ”Diva”, Lambda Nordica, Queer Concepts for the 2020s, Vol. 25 No. 1 2020, s. 38–42. (Inbjuden författare).