Staff

Associate professor in Russian Literature.

PhD in gender studies and postdoctoral researcher in English literature at the Department for Language Studies with a focus on speculative fiction.

I am a doctoral student in Sámi dutkan/Sami Studies with a focus on Language Policy and Planning.

I coordinate the activities of the Arctic Graduate School and other Arctic education activities. My academic backgrounds are Cognitive Science, Computer Science and Psychology.

I am a senior lecturer and associate professor in Language Teaching and Learning. My research centers on L2 development, multilingualism and literacy. I teach courses in Swedish as a second language.

Associate Professor of English Literature, teaching literature, langaguage proficiency and academic writing. My research is in gender and cultural studies, focusing on critical kinship studies. 

As a senior lecturer at the department I teach German linguistics and culture both on campus and online. 

Professor in Educational Work. 

Research interests: multilingualism in education and work life, minority languages, Swedish as a second language, translanguaging, literacies, linguistic ethnography.

I am Deputy Vice-Chancellor for education on the first- and second-cycle level.

Administrative coordinator at the Department of Language Studies.

Assistant director. 

Professor in Sámi studies and digital humanities. 

Deputy director of the research infrastructure Huminfra.

Co-editor för tidiskriften JAF: A Global Quarterly.

Professor of Scandinavian Languages with a focus on North Scandinavian Studies. 

Senior lecturer in Spanish at the Department of Language Studies

I am a university lecturer at the department of language studies and teach language didactics and Swedish.

I am a doctoral student with an interest in the assessment practices in the Swedish preschool class.

Lecturer in Swedish as a second language

My research interests include writing education and discourses of writing in policy and practice. I have a background as a teacher, as a coordinator of literacy networks, and as a teacher educator.

I am an Associate Professor of Italian Studies. My research interests revolve around the relationship between art, science, and literature.

I work within the field of Language Teaching and Learning (didaktik) with a particular focus on literacy and writing, policy and participation. See also www.wrights.se

I teach French and Swedish as a second language and am Deputy Director of Studies in French and Spanish. I'm also the International Coordinator for French. 

I am the study advisor, the international coordinator and the contact person for students with pedagogical support. I am also study administrator for courses in English, German and Russian.

Senior Lecturer in General Linguistics

Assistant Director of Studies, General and Applied Linguistics

Mun lean sámegiela doseanta ja máŋggagielatvuođa ja čállinoahpahusa dutki. I am Docent of Sámi language. I do research on multilingualism and literacy instruction in a minority context.

Researcher in applied lingustics with focus on power relations and gender in conversations about humour and sports.

I am Professor of English Literature at Umeå University, Sweden and among other things, my research has concerned postmodern romance, Irish women's literature and Irish book history. 

I teach English linguistics. My research interests include cognitive and corpus linguistics, emotions, English historical linguistics, and semantics.   

I teach German and Language Didactics. I am also the coordinator for teacher education and for minority languages and also assistant director of studies for Finnish, Meänkieli, Sami and German.

I am a PhD student in linguistics specializing in language policy and planning related to the national minority language Meänkieli.

PhD student in Educational work. 

I teach English at the Umeå School of Education and I am the course coordinator for Practical Placement courses (VFU II / III)

Professor in Scandinavian languages

Writing for academic and research purposes in a second language, the teaching and learning of English in schools, uses of picture books for language learning

Reader in English literature, deputy director of English.

I am professor of linguistics, and honorary professor of education at Prifysgol Bangor University. I am also the scientific leader for the post-graduate school in the Educational Sciences.

Associate professor at the Department of Language Studies/Sámi dutkan. Intellectual Indigenous traditions are my research interests. 

I am a doctoral student in English literature. In my project, I explore representations of eating disorders in contemporary literature.

Researches dialects and place names within the northern Scandinavian areas, including spotlighting different language landscapes. Focus lies on the Scandinavian languages.

Doctoral student in English literature since September 2024. My research focuses on speculative fiction, postcolonial literature and ecocriticism, with a focus on the Arctic.

PhD Student in linguistics with focus on language policy and planning regarding the Sámi languages.

I am an assistant professor in linguistics with a focus on language development.

Phd Student in Sami studies, focusing on indigenous politics and Arctic relations. Originally from Canada.

I teach and do research in Education and TESOL Teacher Education from a critical, interdisciplinary perspective.

My research interests span fan fiction, teaching and learning of (French) literature, reception studies, and speculative fiction with a focus on reworking of myths and legends from the North.

 
I am an Associate Professor in German literature and teach courses at all levels.

Associate professor teaching at the Special Needs Teacher Education Programme. Main research interests are language, reading and writing difficulties.

Professor of Modern English literature. Research interests: speculative fiction, travel writing, fan fiction, the Arctic.

My research areas cover morphology, lexical semantics, language acquisition, as well as contrastive and corpus linguistics, and have a particular focus on word-formation.

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of English Linguistics

I am a PhD candidate in linguistics and gender studies. My project focuses on HIV/AIDS representation in Swedish mainstream and queer magazines. 

Associate professor in Finnish language

Communications Officer, and Web Editor at the Arctic Centre. I am responsible for the external communication on social media, in newsletters, and on our website. 

Postdoctoral Fellow | Research on the intersection of language education, migration and multilingualism, as well as internationalisation of higher education.

I am a doctoral student in Language Teaching and Learning at the Department of Language Studies. 

Director of Studies. Writing researcher. Metaphor researcher. Love researcher. Lecturer.

I am lecturer in Swedish with a didactical orientation doing teaching and research in Swedish/Scandinavian languages, often in relation to the teaching profession.

I work as a Communications Officer at the Department of Language Studies,  and at Humlab. My tasks include web-related work, graphic design, writing news, social media, and events.

I am a PhD-student in linguistics with a focus on Nordic languages. 

Lecturer in Scandinavian languages.

I mainly teach and train voice and speech for all teacher education students. In addition, I teach language didactics both within teacher education and special needs teacher education.

I am an Associate Professor in English literature at the Department of Language Studies. I teach courses in literature, cultural studies, academic writing and language proficiency at all levels.

Using experimental methods, I research how multiple cue use in third-language Swedish sentences and discourses is affected by the cue use in learners' first and second languages.

I am a senior lecturer in language, reading and writing development with a focus on special needs teachers’ profession.

Speech and language therapist and lecturer helping teacher students with their voices and speech. Also teaching in speech production, Swedish pronunciation and children’s language development.