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My research is anchored in two areas: on the one hand narrative medicine and the medical humanities; and on the other Roman and Greek ancient and medieval literature and its modern reception, with emphasis on gender history, women’s writing, and the transmission of classical texts. My research explores the intersections of classical literature, literary gender history, and the reception of antiquity in later European thought, with a sustained focus on how ancient traditions shape modern cultural meaning, aesthetic form, and ethical discourse.
From 2025, I lead the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg–funded project The Reception of Vanessa Springora’s Consent, which analyses generational shifts in attitudes to sexual consent through literary analysis and digital-humanities methods, and I previously directed the Swedish Research Council–funded project Philomela Returns: Ancient Myth and the Public Secret of Rape.
I am also chair of the Centre for Medical Humanities, a member of the management team for WOMHER (Women’s Mental Health during the Reproductive Lifespan), and have served as Work Package leader in the EU-funded project Mothernet. I have been a visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity, the Fondation Hardt in Geneva, and at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, and in 2025 I am a visiting scholar at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, where I will work on the monograph Proba: The First Christian Woman Poet (Oxford University Press).
Born: 1981
Interests: Music, film and literature.
Other: I now live in Uppsala, originally from Malmö and have lived in several European cities since childhood: Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, London, Rome, Pisa and Geneva.
As a member of the Young Academy Sweden, I want to work for increased collaboration between younger researchers in Sweden and contribute to making our work visible. In particular, I want to develop and contribute to dialogue and cooperation across subject boundaries and explore all the possible places of the humanities in those conversations. Finally, I want to work for better conditions for younger and future colleagues in Swedish literary studies.
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