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Berit Åström

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. 

Research qualifications: Docent
Educational qualifications: Recognised university teacher

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Associate professor at Department of Language Studies Section: English Role: Assistant head of department
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A, Humanisthuset, korridor HUM.J.2 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

I am an Associate Professor of Literature. I teach literature, language proficiency, academic writing and cultural studies, and supervise BA and MA theses. I also supervise doctoral students.

My research is in the fields of gender studies and cultural studies. In recent years I have mainly been working within critical kinship studies, focusing particularly on the representation of mothers in literature, film and television. This has resulted in articles, for example, on the cultural suspicion towards breastmilk in advice literature for new mothers and on adulterous mothers in crime fiction.

Research projects

I have recently finished a project analysing American advice literature aimed at single mothers raising sons: Analysing American Advice Books for Single Mothers Raising Sons: Essentalism, Culture and Guilt. It is an intersectional study, which analyses the advice given, as well as their explicit and implicit constructions of masculinity and femininity, of parenthood from the point of view of gender, class and ethnicity.

The works of American afrofuturist author N.K. Jemisin are the focus of a newly completed international anthology project I have run together with Dr. Jenny Bonnevier at Örebro University: Kinship in the Works of N.K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and ResistanceIn the book, scholars analyse how Jemisin problematises family and kin. 

 

Kinship in the fiction of N.K. Jemisin: relations of power and resistance, Lanham: Lexington Books 2023 : 1-22
Bonnevier, Jenny; Åström, Berit
Kinship in the fiction of N.K. Jemisin: relations of power and resistance, Lanham: Lexington Books 2023 : 61-76
Åström, Berit
Lanham: Lexington Books 2023
Åström, Berit; Bonnevier, Jenny
Single parents: representations and resistance in an international context, Palgrave Macmillan 2021 : 1-28
Bergnehr, Disa; Åström, Berit
Imagining motherhood in the twenty-first century, London: Routledge 2021 : 97-113
Åström, Berit
Single parents: representations and resistance in an international context, Palgrave Macmillan 2021 : 87-109
Åström, Berit
Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Åström, Berit; Bergnehr, Disa
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, Dagenham: Science Fiction Foundation 2019, Vol. 48, (134) : 19-31
Åström, Berit
Women - A Cultural Review, Abingdon: Routledge 2018, Vol. 29, (1) : 112-128
Åström, Berit
Handmaids, tributes, and carers: dystopian females' roles and goals, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2018 : 2-17
Åström, Berit
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2017
Åström, Berit
The absent mother in the cultural imagination: missing, presumed dead, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2017 : 241-258
Åström, Berit
Absent mothers, Bradford: Demeter Press 2017 : 7-16
Åström, Berit
The absent mother in the cultural imagination: missing, presumed dead, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2017 : 1-21
Åström, Berit
Att konstruera en kvinna: berättelser om normer, flickor och tanter, Lund: Nordic Academic Press 2016 : 79-98
Åström, Berit
Journal of Gender Studies, Taylor & Francis 2015, Vol. 24, (5) : 574-586
Åström, Berit
Literature and medicine, Vol. 33, (1) : 113-131
Åström, Berit
Feminist Media Studies, Taylor & Francis Group 2015, Vol. 15, (4) : 593-607
Åström, Berit
Journal of Children and Media, Taylor & Francis Group 2015, Vol. 9, (3) : 294-307
Åström, Berit
The Mother-Blame Game, Toronto: Demeter Press 2015 : 204-218
Åström, Berit
Rape in Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and beyond: contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone crime fiction, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013 : 1-18
Horeck, Tanya; Gregersdotter, Katarina; Åström, Berit
Rape in Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and beyond: contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone crime fiction, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013 : 97-113
Åström, Berit
Rape in Stieg Larsson's Millennium and Beyond: Contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone Crime Fiction, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013 : 1-18
Åström, Berit; Gregersdotter, Katarina; Horeck, Tanya
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013
Åström, Berit; Gregersdotter, Katarina; Horeck, Tanya
Transformative Works and Cultures, Organization for Transformative Works 2011, (8)
Gregersdotter, Katarina; Isaksson, Malin; Lindgren Leavenworth, Maria; et al.
Journal of Gender Studies, Routledge 2011, Vol. 20, (2) : 125-137
Åström, Berit
Transformative Works and Cultures, Organization for Transformative Works 2010, Vol. 4
Åström, Berit
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG 2008
Åström, Berit
LMS - Lingua, Vol. 4
Åström, Berit
Medieval Feminist Forum, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship 1999, Vol. 27, (1) : 24-27
Åström, Berit
Studia Neophilologica, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oxford, Boston: Scandinavian University Press 1998, Vol. 70, (1) : 25-34
Åström, Berit

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1 January 2023 until 31 December 2027
1 January 2020 until 7 February 2022
1 March 2019 until 1 August 2021
30 June 2014 until 31 December 2014
1 August 2011 until 31 July 2013