Staff
Steering committee
Chair of the steering committee: Jenny Sundén
Secretary: Ewa Rogström
Members
Doctoral student representatives: Jennie Plate Blomberg and Linnéa Karlsson
Director of studies for Studies in Practical Knowledge: Carl Cederberg
Director of studies for Aesthetics: Aris Fioretos
Director of studies for Philosophy: Ulrika Björk
Director of Studies for Gender Studies: Linn Sandberg
Director of Studies for Art History: Marta Edling
Director of studies for Media and Communication Studies: Göran Bolin
Director of studies for Comparative Literature: Claudia Lindén
Researcher, doctoral students and other staff:
Associate professor in Journalism and PhD in Media Technology.
Social Sciences
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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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I teach in Dramatext och teater, creative writing and animal studies. My latest monograph is Zooësis. Kulturella gestaltningar av lantbruksdjurens tid och liv.
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My teaching and research orients itself within the German and French phenomenological, existential, and feminist traditions of thought.
Culture and Education
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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
Culture and Education
PD225
Doctoral student in Aesthetics Research interests include modern aesthetics, Immanuel Kant's aesthetic philosophy, modern artistic expression such as visual arts and music.
Culture and Education
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Mikael Cleryd
Doctoral Student
My thesis "Det absoluta och det gemensamma" ("The Absolute and the Common" is the first interpretation of the philosophy of art of the Swedish Idealist Benjamin Höijer (1767–1812).
Culture and Education
Professor i konstvetenskap, ledamot av fakultetsnämnden 2022-2025
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Anna Enström
PhD
Senior Lecturer
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.
Culture and Education
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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.
Culture and Education
I work as a lecturer and researcher in media and communication studies as well as within teacher education. My research interests concern media technologies in education.
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I am Professor of Media and Communication Studies. My main research interests are schools, media and digitalisation.
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Claudia Gioia
Doctoral Student
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
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
PC239
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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On leave
Doctoral researcher. My PhD project is called: "(Anal) sex as practise and taboo in digital environments: Desire, stigma and sexual health - focusing on queer men's anal sexuality
Culture and Education
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.
Culture and Education
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 a senior lecturer in comparative literature. She defended her PhD-thesis on Agneta Enckell's poetry and Isabelle Stengers' Cosmopolitics in December 2023.
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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
I am a doctoral student in Media and Communications Studies. I write my dissertation on time, space and technology in the architectural renewal of Moscow 2010-2020.
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Nicholas Lawrence
Doctoral Student
Doctoral student in Theory of practical knowledge, belonging to the research school Transplace
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I am associate professor in media and communication studies. My research interests include media theory, communication history, media infrastructures, and history of media studies.
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Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies. I am researcher in media activism, media philosophy, visual cultures and media production, and aesthetic learning processes.
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Full professor in literature with an interest in Northern European literture after 1880, queer theory and literary animal studies.
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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.
Culture and Education
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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I am a doctoral student in gender studies. My project examines men's digital life writing as a life-sustaining practice.
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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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Doctoral student in Media and Communication Studies. My dissertation project concerns datafication, automation and artificial intelligence in the Swedish public services.
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In my PhD project I study the relation between peace as a literary theme and the modern/colonial narrative in works by Frida Stéenhoff, Elin Wägner, and Hagar Olsson.
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My PhD focuses on experiences of border-crossing, sexual violence and agency among Vietnamese undocumented immigrant women.
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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.
Library
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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.
Culture and Education
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PhD candidate in gender studies. My project examines the role non-normative sexuality plays in media and cultural representations of Russia in Sweden
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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. My research interests are media ethnography, feminist theory and critical cultural studies.
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Teaching at the Centre for Practical Knowledge.
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Maria Ribeiro
Doctoral Student
Ewa Rogström
Officer
Administration of doctoral-level education in the research area of Critical and Cultural Theory.
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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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The focus of my research is primarily gender, sexuality, ageing and later life and dementia illnesses. I'm the Director of studies of the doctoral programme in Gender Studies
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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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Néa Sedell
Doctoral Student
Doctoral student in Aesthetics. My dissertation project explores literary embodiments and theoretical conceptualizations of melancholy in the late writings of E.M. Cioran.
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My research is focused on the history of aesthetics and I am particularly interested in the relation between aesthetics and the political.
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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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I am Head of Department and Professor in Media and Communication Studies. My main reserach interests concerns media production, media work and media and media trust.
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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
Head of department, School of Police Studies
Police Education
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Aesthetics: associated professor, 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.
Culture and Education
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Philosophy of art, German idealism, critical theory, labour, Adorno, Marx, contemporary Marxism, contemporary art from 1960s onwards, specifically performance/dance
Culture and Education
PD219
I teach in Gender Studies. 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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