Staff
Steering committee
Chair of the steering committee: Jenny Sundén
Secretary: Ewa Rogström
Members
Doctoral student representatives: Moa Höglund and Maria Mårsell
Director of studies for Studies in Practical Knowledge: Carl Cederberg
Director of studies for Aesthetics: Erik Wallrup
Director of studies for Philosophy: Ulrika Björk
Director of Studies for Gender Studies: Linn Sandberg
Director of Studies for Art History: Katarina Wadstein MacLeod
Director of studies for Media and Communication Studies: Göran Bolin External link.
Director of studies for Comparative Literature: Claudia Lindén
Researcher, doctoral students and other staff:
Associate professor in Journalism and PhD in Media Technology. Head of School at NMT until August, then, I will come back to the Department of Journalism at ISV.
Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies
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As part of the research hub ReNEW (Reimagining Norden in an Evolving World), I study Norden, vikings and masculinity in Anglophone fantasy literature.
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My research explores how people coexist with, and create meaning from, media in everyday life from phenomenological, material, spatial and ethical perspectives.
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senior lecturer of comparative literature and drama
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Researches the practical knowledge of police officers in counterterrorism intervention units, and their ability to act in unknown, unforeseen and rapidly changing problems, against
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Philosophy of action and language, philosophy of humor, emotions and rationality, virtue ethics, Wittgenstein, Anscombe, McDowell, Cavell
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Doctoral student in Aesthetics Research interests include modern aesthetics, Immanuel Kant, artistic expression.
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My thesis "Det absoluta och det gemensamma. Benjamin Höijers konstfilosofi" is the first interpretation of the philosophy of art of the Swedish idealist Höijer (1767–1812).
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Professor i konstvetenskap, ledamot av fakultetsnämnden 2022-2025
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Anna Enström
PhD

Staffan Ericson
Associate Professor
Senior Lecturer

My PhD project focuses on how ideas about unborn human life have influenced and structured Swedish abortion politics between 1935-2021.
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Research into questions concerning post-Romantic literature, aesthetics, film, and visual arts.
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Professor Emeritus in Media and Communication Studies, focusing media, mediatisation, critical theory, cultural studies, interpretation and European identities.
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I work as a lecturer and researcher in media and communication studies as well as within teacher education.
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I am a researcher and teacher in media and communication studies, My main research interests concerns education, media and digitalization.
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I am an ethnologist, senior lecturer and director of the Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge. My main research field is within medical humanities.
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Jessica Gustafsson
PhD
Senior Lecturer

I am working as a lecturer in Media and Communication Studies. Currently, my research interest is directed to how the field of neuroeducation deals with effects of digital media.
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Doctoral student in Media and Communication Studies / BEEGS. Writing a dissertation on cultural valuation practices, education media and digitization in Sweden and Estonia.
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Urban Hermansson
Doctoral Student

I am a media researcher whose work is mainly on fake news, media and war, history of media and culture, primarily in Eastern Europe
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Ellen Jacobsson
Doctoral Student
I am a doctoral student in the theory of practical knowledge. My research investigates the conditions and assumptions for practices of integration and their knowledge.
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Research interests include art historiography, temporality, assemblage theory, museum studies and aspects of the climate crisis and the anthropocene
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Jenny Karlsson
Education Administrator
Researcher and writer. Her research focuses on commemorative practices, representations and expression of history.
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I am professor in media and communication studies. My research interests include media activism, media practices, algorithms, automation and artificial intelligence
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Emma Kihl is doctoral candidate in comparative literature. The thesis is reading Agneta Enckell’s poetry in company with Isabelle Stengers's philosophy.
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Comparative gender studies; public knowledge regimes and policy making, body/bio-politics, citizenship, borderlands of post/decolonial and postsocialist scholarship.
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Karin Larsson
Doctoral Student
Camilla Larsson
PhD
Senior Lecturer
Nicholas Lawrence
Doctoral Student

Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies. I am researcher in media activism, media philosophy, cultural and media production, and aesthetic learning processes.
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I work as a senior lecturer in literature since 2018. In my research I focus queer perspectives and the human-animal relationship in northern-European literature after 1880.
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I work with material from 19th century to the present and research femininity, domesticity, bodies, gender, identity, cultural heritage & value production, and arctic nature.
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Historian of Ideas and Professor of Gender Studies, specialized on early feminism, memory studies/memory politics and methodology.
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I am an associate professor in Gender Studies and the head of Gender Studies. My research explores intersections of gender, nation, and whiteness in tourism.
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Dannie Milve
My PhD is a part of the project "Digital sexual health - Designing for safety, pleasure and wellbeing in LGBTQ+ communities".
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PhD candidate within the project Exhibiting Art in a European Periphery? International Art in Sweden during the Cold War.
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My PhD project in comparative literature explores ideas of peace in theoretical and fictional works by Frida Stéenhoff, Elin Wägner and Hagar Olsson.
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I teach art history from basic level to research supervision. I have particularly focused on public art, designed living environment, as well as on modernism.
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David Payne
PhD
Publications Officer
International research editor for Södertörns Publications Committee. I am also a researcher in continental political philosophy, and I lecture political theory and rhetoric.
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Teaching and research on German, Swedish, Finland-Swedish, and American literature from the 18th century onward; publications on Goethe, Novalis, Almqvist, and Bachmann.
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Doctoral student in the theory of practical knowledge. I'm writing a thesis on Swedish and Finnish teachers' lived experience of boredom.
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Kirill Polkov
Doctoral Student
PhD candidate in gender studies. My project in examines the role homosexuality plays in media and cultural representations of Russia in the Swedish context
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I teach at the teachers programs especially the preschool teachers programs.
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I am a visiting researcher in Media and Communication Studies Department and CBEES. My research interests are media ethnography, feminist theory and critical cultural studies.
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Maria Ribeiro
Doctoral Student
Ewa Rogström
Officer
Administration of doctoral-level education.
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Specialising in phenomenological and hermeneutic philosophy, and in Ancient philosophy. Co-editor of Nietzsche's collected works in Swedish.
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Eva Schwarz is philosopher and associate professor at the Centre for Studies in practical knowledge. Her research is about collectivity and professional judgement.
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Doctoral Student in Media and Communication Studies. I research media practices in refugee camps in Germany since 1945. Research interests: media, migration and their histories.
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Teach and research post- and decolonial philosophies, Afro-Caribbean and indigenous thinking, with a basis in contemporary continental philo, feminism and phenomenology.
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Professor in Media and Communication Studies. My main reserach interests concerns media production, media work and media and social class.
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I'm a professor of gender studies. My work is in the intersection of digital media and technology studies, gender and sexuality studies, feminist queer theory and affect theory.
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Emil Sunnerfjell
Education Administrator
Director of studies (third cycle) and associate professor and senior lecturer in Comparative Literature with drama orientation. Teaching at teacher training programs.
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Head of department, School of Police Studies
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Aesthetics: associated professor, director of studies doctoral education, co-ordinator masters' programme , co-ordinator programme in Aesthetics
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Anna Wennergren
Doctoral Student

I am associate professor in Gender Studies, my research investigates intersections of gender, music, theatre and media.
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Kim West
PhD
Researcher
The development of critical aesthetic thought, the cultural history of popular avantgardes, and the institutional and technological transformations of art’s forms of mediation.
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Josefine Wikström
Senior Lecturer
My research interests are contemporary art, dance and performance; philosophy of art and critical theory. Right now I work within the project Culture, Autonomy, Action (RJ).
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I teach in Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, and in the Police Training Program. My research is situated at the intersection of queer theory and literature (and other media).
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I am Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies. My research interests include visual communication, journalism, and historical perspectives on the media.
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