Elisabet Dellming

Elisabet Dellming is a Lecturer at the Department of English, Stockholm University. She also serves as director of studies with special responsibility for teacher education.

She received her PhD in English literature from Stockholm University in 2015. Her doctoral thesis explored the phenomenon of awe in the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, using a phenomenological approach to illuminate Hopkins's poetics. The thesis was reviewed simultaneously in The Hopkins Quarterly and in the Newman Institute publication Signum.

Dr. Dellming's research focuses on how literature by way of imagination constitutes an alternative epistemology—a different way of seeing the world. She examines how narratives challenge our epistemological assumptions about meaning, life, and history, with particular interest in the ethical implications of literary alternative epistemologies. Her work spans Victorian poetry to contemporary fiction, with special expertise in phenomenology's application to literary studies.

Her publications demonstrate consistent engagement with authors like Gerard Manley Hopkins, Penelope Fitzgerald, and Marilynne Robinson, exploring how literature creates spaces for alternative ways of knowing. She has co-edited conference proceedings for the Generative Anthropology Conference and published in journals like Anthropoetics.

As an educator, she aims to prompt students' sense of discovery and help them uncover deeper meanings in literary texts beyond casual reading. She supervises research on phenomenology and literature from the Victorian period to present, with particular interest in metaphysical and epistemological issues related to literature.