Maria Karlsson
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Literature and Rhetoric
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 29 55
- Fax:
- +46 18 471 61 87
- E-mail:
- maria.e.karlsson@littvet.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 P
- Postal address:
- Box 632
751 26 UPPSALA
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Biography
Maria Karlsson, Ph.D in Literary Studies and senior lecturer in Rhetoric at the Department of Literature, Uppsala University.
My dissertation analyzed the melodramatic in novels by Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940). The thesis is gender oriented and uses theories of melodrama and narration from disciplines of literature, film, drama, Cultural Studies. Since then I have worked with the extensive archive material of Selma Lagerlöf. I was on the editorial board of a textcritical editing project (2004–2011, see www.Litteraturbanken.se) and in a project about Lagerlöfs audience I investigated reading and the image of the celebrity Selma Lagerlöf as depicted in the many thousands of letters she received from the public. (Both projects funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.) My research interests are narration, genre, History of the Book, reception study, reading, popular culture, melodrama, emotion. I have written on for instance fan mail, loneliness, art and public discourse (funded by the Swedish Research Council), Swedish crime fiction. I am interested in gender and intersectionality and I was for five years employed by the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University. My most recent articles are on the art scandal and on the letters from the public to Selma Lagerlöf.
Ny teaching areas are literary studies, liberal arts, rhetoric and gender studies.
Current projects
1) A communication project, that collects, digitizes and comments letters from Selma Lagerlöf to the public. The project got funded in december 2016 and runs through 2018. It is performed in collaboration with Jenny Bergenmar, University of Gothenburg.
2) I am part of the steering committe of the interdisciplinary research program Engaging Vulnerability (EV), UU (see www.engagingvulnerability.se). In my EV research project I analyze how the many thousands of those who wrote letters to Selma Lagerlöf use vulnerability as a resource to beg her for money and other favours. I will also direct research on vulnerability, narration and space. At the current I am involved in initiating a multidisciplinary research program that investigates narratives of Sweden’s biggest housing project – ”The Million Program” – usually regarded as the most vulnerable living area in the country. My own project within the latter program concerns how vulnerability is used in radio documentaries.
Publications
For a selection of publications with titles translated to/published in english, see www.engagingvulnerability.se.
Publications
Recent publications
- Lagerlöfs läsare (2022)
- En skev historia (2022)
- Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture (2020)
- Mobilizing Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture (2020)
- The Politics of True Crime (2020)
All publications
Articles
- En skev historia (2022)
- The Sacrosanct Art (2017)
- Läsarnas Lagerlöf (2006)
- Leif Alsheimer, Bildningsresan. Från ensidig utbildning till sammanhangsskapande bildning (2005)
- What about Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria (Vad tycks om Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria?) (1998)
- Selma Lagerlöf och kärleken. Lagerlöfstudier 1997, red. Karl Erik Lagerlöf (Selma Lagerlöfsällskapets årsbok1997). Selma Lagerlöfsällskapet och Gidlunds förlag, Stockholm 1997) (1998)
Books
- Lagerlöfs läsare (2022)
- Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture (2020)
- Konstellationer (2017)
- Konstellationer (2017)
- Unga läser (2016)
- Spår och speglingar (2011)
- Textkritisk utgåva av Selma Lagerlöfs Körkarlen (2009)
- Den moderna ensamheten (2006)
- Den moderna ensamheten (2006)
- I Selma Lagerlöfs värld (2005)
- Känslans röst (2002)
Chapters
- Mobilizing Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture (2020)
- The Politics of True Crime (2020)
- Den sårbara brevskrivaren och det förlorade och återvunna Mårbacka (2017)
- Evidence of Reading? The Swedish Public’s Letters to Selma Lagerlöf (2016)
- Biografiska legender från Bowie till Lagerlöf (2016)
- The Reader in History and Letters to the Author (2014)
- Inledning till textkritisk utgåva av Gösta Berlings saga samt "Ord - och sakförklaringar" i samarbete med Anna Nordlund (2013)
- ”Kanonforskning, konvergens och kärringromaner” (2013)
- Inledning (2013)
- Bästa författarinna, Högtärade Dr. Lagerlöf, Kära sagotant! (2013)
- Scandal Success! (2013)
- Den verkliga publikens Selma Lagerlöf (2011)
- Inledning till textkritisk utgåva av Selma Lagerlöfs Körkarlen (2009)
- Läsarnas Lagerlöf (2007)
- Krama frihetens kalla sten (2006)
- Tablå och travesti (2004)