Research
I am Associate Professor of English Linguistics, specialized in discourse analysis applied to digital, online, and social media environments.
In recent years, my research has mainly been focused on language and race/racism, language and gender, and the development of a research collaboration between Karlstad University and the Embracer Games Archive, with research focusing on the games archive as a place, questions of cultural heritage and game preservation, and historical video games as material artifacts with transforming meanings in a postdigital society. The latter project is in development, in faculty-internal collaboration with the Center for Geomedia Studies and KultPlats, a research group gathering humanities scholars interested in the relation between culture and place.
In the period 2020–2024, I was principal investigator of the project Non-apologies: The reception of public apologies in mediated interaction in the era of #MeToo, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Reg no P19-0213:1). The project was conducted together with Erica Sandlund, and hosted by the Department of Language, Literature, and Intercultural Studies.
Further in 2020–2024, I was project researcher in The Swedish r-word: Uses and negotiations of the terms race and racism in contemporary Swedish online and social media discourse, funded by the Swedish Research Council (Reg no 2019-03291). The principal investigator was Tobias Hübinette, and the project was hosted by the KuFo, the Research Group for Culture Studies.
In 2019, I was postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Educational Studies at Karlstad University. My postdoctoral project focused on the in-class but off-task use of Snapchat by students among Swedish upper-secondary school students. The project was conducted in collaboration with the SRC-funded project Uppkopplade klassrum.
In 2017, I defended my doctoral dissertation i tweet like i talk: Aspects of speech and writing on Twitter. The project considers various aspects of 'spokenness' in the use of written English on Twitter, centered on the question of what spokenness may actually come to mean, how orality can be remediated, in a digital writing space. The dissertation comprises case studies investigating the communicative functions of hashtags, various functional and formal aspects of the use of conversational reported speech, and normative aspects of how Twitter users themselves construe 'talk-likeness' on Twitter.
Other research projects I have been involved in have centered in studying the relationship between SLA and extramural activities involving English, such as playing video games (with Pia Sundqvist), high stakes oral examinations in L2 English learning in Sweden (Testing Talk; Swedish Research Council Reg no 2012-4129; project leader Erica Sandlund), popular music discourses (a KuFo project), and the discursive construction of political correctness (with several KuFo scholars). I also serverd as research assistant in the Lund University-based project MultiLingual Spaces (Vetenskapsrådet Dnr. 2016-03469; project leader Marie Källkvist, Lund University).
Teaching
Starting in 2024, I serve as Director of Studies for English, Spanish, and Intercultural Studies, at the Department of Language, Literature and Intercultural Studies. During this period, I teach mainly advanced level courses in English linguistics, in our MA program. My courses tend to center applied linguistic perspectives, discourse analytic methods, and media and social media language as empirical materials. My main profile courses are ENAS05 Language and social media, and ENAS08 Critical approaches to language and discourse. I have also been involved in developing and teaching two undergraduate courses connected to the research collaboration with Embracer Games archive, namely ENGAM3 Narrative in video games: A historical overview, and LVGAM3 Video game rhetoric: Narrative, cultural, and multimodal perspectives.