Academic interests
My research fields are English-language literature and literature education. I am particularly interested in the uses of literature across the education system, from primary to higher education. Over the past several years, I have examined various aspects of this question in relation to curricula in English and to English textbooks. As a research fellow in the EDUCATE-project, I am currently exploring the question using video-observation data. I am also interested in teacher educator identities and attitudes. Within the area of literary studies, I have been concerned with the potential of literature to portray human experience and to shed light on societal phenomena, and I have written on such topics as the Great Irish Famine and 9/11 terrorism in contemporary Anglo-American fiction.
Teaching
- EDID4009 Master's Thesis in English subject didactics (MA)
- PPU/PROF3025 Ledelse av elevers læring (engelskdidaktikk) (BA)
Background
- 2022-present: Research fellow at the Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo
- 2010-2022: Senior lecturer in English at the School of Language, Literatures and Learning, Dalarna University, Sweden
- 2010: Lecturer in English at the School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University, Sweden
- 2007: Visiting scholar at the Department of English, University of California at Berkeley, USA
- 2006: Visiting scholar at the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, England
- 2004-2010: PhD student and teaching fellow at the Department of English, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Distinctions
- 2019: Docent/Reader of English literature, with specialisation in literature education
- 2017: Excellent teaching practitioner, Dalarna University.
Commissions of Trust
- 2017-present: Board member of the Literature Education Network https://ju.se/en/research/research-groups/literature-education-network.html
- 2021-present: Editorial board member of the Nordic Journal of English Studies
- 2021-2022: Pro-Dean of the University Faculty Board, Dalarna University
- 2017-2020: Member of Humtank humtank.se
- 2017-2020: Leader of the research forum for teaching and learning in higher education at Dalarna University
- 2017-2019: Head of the English subject, Dalarna University
- 2016-2020: Chair of the Faculty Board for Humanities, Dalarna University.