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:

Ester Appelgren

Ester Appelgren

Associate Professor

Head of School

Senior Lecturer

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

MD342C

Anna Bark Persson

Anna Bark Persson

Doctoral Student

As part of the research hub ReNEW (Reimagining Norden in an Evolving World), I study Norden, vikings and masculinity in Anglophone fantasy literature.

Culture and Education

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Stina Bengtsson

Stina Bengtsson

Professor

My research explores how people coexist with, and create meaning from, media in everyday life from phenomenological, material, spatial and ethical perspectives.

Culture and Education

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Anna-Mia Bergkvist

Anna-Mia Bergkvist

Doctoral Student

Culture and Education

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Amelie Björck

Amelie Björck

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

senior lecturer of comparative literature and drama

Culture and Education

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Ludvig Björklund

Ludvig Björklund

Researches the practical knowledge of police officers in counterterrorism intervention units, and their ability to act in unknown, unforeseen and rapidly changing problems, against

Culture and Education

PD224

Göran Bolin

Göran Bolin

Professor

Professor

Culture and Education

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Jonna Bornemark

Jonna Bornemark

Professor

Culture and Education

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Charlotte Bydler

Charlotte Bydler

Professor

Stina Bäckström

Stina Bäckström

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Philosophy of action and language, philosophy of humor, emotions and rationality, virtue ethics, Wittgenstein, Anscombe, McDowell, Cavell

Culture and Education

PD225

Cecilia Cavalcante Schuback

Cecilia Cavalcante Schuback

Doctoral Student

Doctoral student in Aesthetics Research interests include modern aesthetics, Immanuel Kant, artistic expression.

Culture and Education

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Carl Cederberg

Carl Cederberg

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Culture and Education

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Mats Dahllöv

Mats Dahllöv

PhD

Doctoral Student

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).

Culture and Education

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Marta Edling

Marta Edling

Professor

Professor i konstvetenskap, ledamot av fakultetsnämnden 2022-2025

Culture and Education

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Anna Enström

Anna Enström

PhD

Culture and Education

Staffan Ericson

Staffan Ericson

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Culture and Education

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Christine Farhan

Christine Farhan

Professor

Professor emeritus/emerita

Nadia Feshari

Nadia Feshari

Doctoral Student

My PhD project focuses on how ideas about unborn human life have influenced and structured Swedish abortion politics between 1935-2021.

Culture and Education

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Aris Fioretos

Aris Fioretos

Professor

Research into questions concerning post-Romantic literature, aesthetics, film, and visual arts.

Culture and Education

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Johan Fornäs

Johan Fornäs

Professor

Professor emeritus/emerita

Professor Emeritus in Media and Communication Studies, focusing media, mediatisation, critical theory, cultural studies, interpretation and European identities.

Culture and Education

Ingrid Forsler

Ingrid Forsler

PhD

Subject Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

I work as a lecturer and researcher in media and communication studies as well as within teacher education.

Culture and Education

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Michael Forsman

Michael Forsman

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

I am a researcher and teacher in media and communication studies, My main research interests concerns education, media and digitalization.

Culture and Education

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Heike Graf

Heike Graf

Professor

Culture and Education

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Martin Gunnarson

Martin Gunnarson

PhD

Senior Lecturer

I am an ethnologist, senior lecturer and director of the Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge. My main research field is within medical humanities.

Culture and Education

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Jessica Gustafsson

Jessica Gustafsson

PhD

Senior Lecturer

Carina Guyard

Carina Guyard

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.

Culture and Education

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Saga Hansén

Saga Hansén

Doctoral Student

Doctoral student in Media and Communication Studies / BEEGS. Writing a dissertation on cultural valuation practices, education media and digitization in Sweden and Estonia.

Culture and Education

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Urban Hermansson

Urban Hermansson

Doctoral Student

Roman Horbyk

Roman Horbyk

PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

I am a media researcher whose work is mainly on fake news, media and war, history of media and culture, primarily in Eastern Europe

Culture and Education

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Moa Höglund

Moa Höglund

Doctoral Student

Culture and Education

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Ellen Jacobsson

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.

Culture and Education

PD211

Anna Maria Jönsson

Anna Maria Jönsson

Professor

Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Dan Karlholm

Dan Karlholm

Professor

Research interests include art historiography, temporality, assemblage theory, museum studies and aspects of the climate crisis and the anthropocene

Culture and Education

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Jenny Karlsson

Jenny Karlsson

Education Administrator

Academic secretary

Culture and Education

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Rebecka Katz Thor

Rebecka Katz Thor

PhD

Researcher

Researcher and writer. Her research focuses on commemorative practices, representations and expression of history.

Culture and Education

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Anne Kaun

Anne Kaun

Professor

I am professor in media and communication studies. My research interests include media activism, media practices, algorithms, automation and artificial intelligence

Culture and Education

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Emma Kihl

Emma Kihl

Doctoral Student

Emma Kihl is doctoral candidate in comparative literature. The thesis is reading Agneta Enckell’s poetry in company with Isabelle Stengers's philosophy.

Culture and Education

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Teresa Kulawik

Teresa Kulawik

Professor

Programme Coordinator

Comparative gender studies; public knowledge regimes and policy making, body/bio-politics, citizenship, borderlands of post/decolonial and postsocialist scholarship.

Culture and Education

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Jonna Lappalainen

Jonna Lappalainen

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Karin Larsson

Karin Larsson

Doctoral Student

Culture and Education

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Camilla Larsson

Camilla Larsson

PhD

Senior Lecturer

Doctoral Student

Culture and Education

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Nicholas Lawrence

Nicholas Lawrence

Doctoral Student

Claudia Lindén

Claudia Lindén

Professor

Programme Coordinator

Professor Comparative Literature

Culture and Education

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Lars Lundgren

Lars Lundgren

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Culture and Education

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Isabel Löfgren

Isabel Löfgren

PhD

Programme Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies. I am researcher in media activism, media philosophy, cultural and media production, and aesthetic learning processes.

Culture and Education

PC245

Ann-Sofie Lönngren

Ann-Sofie Lönngren

Professor

Subject Coordinator

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.

Culture and Education

PA204B

Katarina Macleod

Katarina Macleod

Professor

I work with material from 19th century to the present and research femininity, domesticity, bodies, gender, identity, cultural heritage & value production, and arctic nature.

Culture and Education

PC229

Ulla Manns

Ulla Manns

Professor

Historian of Ideas and Professor of Gender Studies, specialized on early feminism, memory studies/memory politics and methodology.

Culture and Education

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Katarina Mattsson

Katarina Mattsson

Associate Professor

Head of Department

Senior Lecturer

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.

Culture and Education

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Dannie Milve

Dannie Milve

My PhD is a part of the project "Digital sexual health - Designing for safety, pleasure and wellbeing in LGBTQ+ communities".

Culture and Education

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Francesca Morini

Francesca Morini

Doctoral Student

Culture and Education

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Pella Myrstener

Pella Myrstener

Doctoral Student

PhD candidate within the project Exhibiting Art in a European Periphery? International Art in Sweden during the Cold War.

Culture and Education

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Maria Mårsell

Maria Mårsell

Doctoral Student

My PhD project in comparative literature explores ideas of peace in theoretical and fictional works by Frida Stéenhoff, Elin Wägner and Hagar Olsson.

Culture and Education

PA204C

Håkan Nilsson

Håkan Nilsson

Professor

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.

Culture and Education

PC235

Joel Odebrant

Joel Odebrant

Doctoral Student

Doctoral student in Art History

Culture and Education

PC219

David Payne

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.

Library

UB751

Mattias Pirholt

Mattias Pirholt

Professor

Head of Department

Teaching and research on German, Swedish, Finland-Swedish, and American literature from the 18th century onward; publications on Goethe, Novalis, Almqvist, and Bachmann.

Culture and Education

PA203

Jennie Plate Blomberg

Jennie Plate Blomberg

Doctoral Student

Doctoral student in the theory of practical knowledge. I'm writing a thesis on Swedish and Finnish teachers' lived experience of boredom.

Culture and Education

PD229

Kirill Polkov

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

Culture and Education

PC223

Maria Pröckl

Maria Pröckl

PhD

Senior Lecturer

I teach at the teachers programs especially the preschool teachers programs.

Culture and Education

PD204

Emek Rahte

Emek Rahte

Visiting Research Fellow

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.

Culture and Education

PC246

Maria Ribeiro

Maria Ribeiro

Doctoral Student

PhD candidate

Culture and Education

PC230

Ewa Rogström

Ewa Rogström

Officer

Administration of doctoral-level education.

Culture and Education

PD236

Hans Ruin

Hans Ruin

Professor

Programme Coordinator

Specialising in phenomenological and hermeneutic philosophy, and in Ancient philosophy. Co-editor of Nietzsche's collected works in Swedish.

Culture and Education

PD216

Anna Rådström

Anna Rådström

Associate Professor

Subject Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

Culture and Education

PC217

Linn Sandberg

Linn Sandberg

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Culture and Education

PC222

Eva Schwarz

Eva Schwarz

Associate Professor

Programme Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

Eva Schwarz is philosopher and associate professor at the Centre for Studies in practical knowledge. Her research is about collectivity and professional judgement.

Culture and Education

PD203

Philipp Seuferling

Philipp Seuferling

PhD

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.

Culture and Education

Cecilia Sjöholm

Cecilia Sjöholm

Professor

Professor of Aesthetics

Culture and Education

PD221

Nicholas Smith

Nicholas Smith

PhD

Senior Lecturer

Teach and research post- and decolonial philosophies, Afro-Caribbean and indigenous thinking, with a basis in contemporary continental philo, feminism and phenomenology.

Culture and Education

PD220

Fredrik Stiernstedt

Fredrik Stiernstedt

Professor

Head of Department

Professor in Media and Communication Studies. My main reserach interests concerns media production, media work and media and social class.

Culture and Education

PC202

Per Ståhlberg

Per Ståhlberg

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Culture and Education

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Jenny Sundén

Jenny Sundén

Professor

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.

Culture and Education

PC221

Emil Sunnerfjell

Emil Sunnerfjell

Education Administrator

Christina Svens

Christina Svens

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Director of studies (third cycle) and associate professor and senior lecturer in Comparative Literature with drama orientation. Teaching at teacher training programs.

Culture and Education

PA204A

Lotta Tillberg

Lotta Tillberg

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Head of department, School of Police Studies

Culture and Education

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Erik Wallrup

Erik Wallrup

Associate Professor

Programme Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

Aesthetics: associated professor, director of studies doctoral education, co-ordinator masters' programme , co-ordinator programme in Aesthetics

Culture and Education

PD228

Anna Wennergren

Anna Wennergren

Doctoral Student

Ann Werner

Ann Werner

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

I am associate professor in Gender Studies, my research investigates intersections of gender, music, theatre and media.

Culture and Education

PC224

Kim West

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.

Culture and Education

PD215

Josefine Wikström

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).

Culture and Education

PD219

Oscar von Seth

Oscar von Seth

PhD

Senior Lecturer

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).

Culture and Education

PA242

Patrik Åker

Patrik Åker

Associate Professor

Programme Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

I am Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies. My research interests include visual communication, journalism, and historical perspectives on the media.

Culture and Education

PC203

Annika Öhrner

Annika Öhrner

Associate Professor

Programme Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

Culture and Education

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