PhD in gender studies and postdoctoral researcher in English literature at the Department for Language Studies with a focus on speculative fiction.
I hold a PhD in gender studies and am currently a postdoctoral researcher in English literature at the Department of Language Studies, as part of the research group Speculative Fiction UmU. In my postdoc project “Reimagining the Red Planet: Feminist and Queer Speculative Interventions” I examine feminist and queer Mars speculative fiction with a focus on how this literature writes back to and challenges earlier speculative Mars fiction as well as more traditional mainstream notions of Mars and space exploration.
My main research interests revolve around speculative fiction, queer theory, outer space, and (queer) masculinities. In my dissertation, Steel as the Answer? Viking Bodies, Power, and Masculinity in Anglophone Fantasy Literature 2006–2016, I examined the Viking motif in contemporary, Anglophone gritty fantasy with a focus on gender, sexuality, embodiment, power, and masculinity.
2021 I published a collection of essays on speculative fiction, Annorstädes [Elsewhere], Vendels förlag. I am also the editorial secretary for lambda nordica, Nordic journal for LGBTQ research and queer studies.