Members
Members and their research interests
Max Edling
PhD, History
Research fellow and lecturer
Department of History, Uppsala University
Max.edling@hist.uu.se
Projects: A Hercules in the Cradle: War, money, and the American state, 1783-1867 (book); "Jeffersonian political economy" (book chapter); U.S. Constitution (book chapter).
Research profile: Max Edling is an expert on the U.S. Constitution and the political history of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War. His current research deals with the history of public finances, in particular the funding of war and territorial expansion in the period 1783 to 1867. I am the author of A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State (New York, 2003).
Gunlög Fur
PhD in American and Native American History, University of Oklahoma, 1993
Professor of History, Linnaeus University
gunlog.fur@lnu.se
My research primarily concerns Native American history and is focused on different aspects of cultural encounters between Native Americans and Euro-Americans in a context of colonialism. Previous research has resulted in a book on Swedish encounters with and relationships with Lenape Indians following Swedish attempts to establish a colony along the Delaware River in the 17th century (Colonialism in the Margins. Cultural Encounters in New Sweden and Lapland, Leiden and Boston, 2006), and a study of how gender framed and influenced colonial encounters in northeastern North America (A Nation of Women. Delaware encounters with European colonists, Philadelphia, 2009). My next project is to establish a network with scholars in the US to investigate the concurrent histories of Indian peoples and Scandinavian immigrants in the Midwest.
I teach courses on postcolonial perspectives, indigenous peoples, and post world-war II history in the US (Entitled "The Long 60s - Revolution or Adaption in Postwar American Society").
Amanda Lagerkvist
PhD, Media and Communication Studies
Research Fellow North American Studies
Affiliation: SINAS, Swedish Institute for North American Studies, SINAS Dept. of English, Uppsala University
amanda.lagerkvist@engelska.uu.se
I work within the fields of media studies, urban theory and transnational American Studies. My ongoing project engages Americans and American expatriate spaces in New Shanghai. Recent publications include Strange Spaces: Explorations into Mediated Obscurity (co-ed.
with André Jansson) Ashgate, 2009.
Johan Nilsson
PhD Student, Film Studies
Academy for Humanities, Education, and Society
Örebro University
I work within the field of film studies under the umbrella of media and communication studies at Örebro University, and my doctoral dissertation consists of a study of satire in the American cinema of the 1990s. My points of departure are on the one hand a perceived increase in the production of satirical film at the time, and on the other a lack of comprehensive previous research into filmic satire. This prompts an examination of how satire in the American cinema operates in terms of both form and context, which has led me to approach the material from a neoformalist perspective. The material in question is made up of a variety of films spanning the decade, and is divided into themes covering political satire, media satire, and historical satire.
Recent publications include "American Critic: Satire and Political Discourse in Warren Beatty's Bulworth," American Studies in Scandinavia, volume 41:2, 2009.
Anders Olsson
PhD in American Literature, is Senior Lecturer of English and Research Fellow at the Department of Humanities, Mid Sweden University. I am the author of Managing Diversity: The Anthologization of "American Literature" (doctoral dissertation 2000), researcher in the project Literary Generations and Access to Authorship, and the author of numerous articles and book chapters in American Literature, American Studies, and Irish Studies.
Current projects are: "Anthologizing World Literature" as co-author of The Routledge Companion to World Literature (publ., September 2010); "East-West Romance: Madame Butterfly, a U.S. Story in a Japanese Setting"; Travel Matters: Cosmopolitan Encounters and Early Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Travelers.
Furthermore, Anders Olsson is president of The Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS), and the editor of the journal American Studies in Scandinavia; former member of the board for The International American Studies Association (IASA) and current associate editor of its Review of International American Studies.
Magnus Ullén
Magnus Ullén is Reader of Comparative Literature and Senior Lecturer of English at Karlstad University. I am the author of The Half-Vanished Structure: Hawthorne's Allegorical Dialectics (2004), and Bara för dig: pornografi, konsumtion, berättande (2009), a study of pornography and consumer society. Currently I am engaged on a study of the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, and Hawthorne's last phase, in relation to the rhetoric of the American Civil War.
For more information, see: http://www.kau.se/forskning/forskdb?to_do=show_results&researcher=2967
Helena Wahlström
PhD, American Literature
Senior lecturer of English, University of Gävle
Reader, Center of Gender Studies, Uppsala University
helena.wahlstrom@gender.uu.se
Current projects: New Fathers?: Contemporary Stories of Masculinity, Domesticity, and Kinship (forthcoming from Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010); Making Home: Orphanhood and Agency in Contemporary American Novels (a collaborative book project with Maria Holmgren Troy, Karlstad University, and Liz Kella, Södertörn University, financed by the Swedish Research Council 2009-2011)
My doctoral thesis in American literature, Husbands, Lovers, and Dreamlovers: Masculinity and Female Desire in Women's Novels of the 1970s (1997), combines feminist and masculinity studies. Recent research focuses on notions of "family," fatherhood, and childhood. A current book project deals with representations of fatherhood in non-nuclear families in fiction and fictional film; another investigates orphans in novels by African American, Native American, and White EuroAmerican writers.
My personal homepage at Uppsala University: http://www.gender.uu.se/node301
Annika Öhrner
Annika Öhrner, PhD, Project leader and Researcher, Uppsala university, The Research group SEC (Sociology of Education and Culture) at the Department of Studies in Education, Culture and Media. annika.ohrner@edu.uu.se
I am an Art historian and my dissertation Barbro Östlihn och New York, Konstens rum och möjligheter [Barbro Östlihn and New York. Arts Space and Possibilities] from 2010, is published at Makadam förlag in Swedish with an English summary. I am currently working within the project Sixty-Eight. The Swedish Student Rebellion, Its Social Conditions, and Its Effects on Cultural Fields. A Study in the Sociology of Educational Change, directed by Professor Donald Broady and funded by The Swedish Research Council's Committee for Educational Science, at Uppsala University.
I am also a Curator, currently creating a large retrospective with the Swedish modernist Siri Derkert (1888-1973) for Moderna Museet which opens in summer 2011, connected also to an inftrastructural research project on the artist's archive at the National Library of Sweden. My general research interest is transnational movements in 20th C avant-garde culture, historiography, cultural fields and space-theory. My numerous essays on 20th-century art and culture have a feminist perspective. Öhrner was head of Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg University, 1996-2001.