About
Elisabet Göransson serves as Associate Professor in Latin at Lund University's Centre for Languages and Literature within the Faculty of Humanities and Theology. She additionally holds positions as Programme Coordinator at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies and as a Researcher in Interdisciplinary Latin studies.
Her research focuses on textual scholarship, particularly Latin studies, palaeography, and textual criticism. She has extensive experience editing medieval and early modern texts including the Skara Missal and theological controversies from the Swedish Reformation period. Her work bridges traditional philological methods with digital approaches to textual analysis, demonstrating expertise across multiple domains including digital humanities, religious history, and scholarly editing practices.
Göransson leads several major research projects: "Knowledge, magic and horse medicine in Late Antiquity" (Swedish Research Council, 2021-2025), "Authority, community and individual freedom - Latin monastic culture and the roots of European educational ideals" (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2022-2024), and the "TextVid Öresund" textual studies network (2021-2023).
- Member Steering Committee of Filologie medievali e moderne (2023)
- AcademiaNet (2022)
- The New Royal Society of Letters in Lund (2017)
She teaches Postclassical Latin (LATA01), Paleography (BBHR02), and digital tools for textual scholarship. As course coordinator for multiple graduate-level courses and steering committee member for the DigPhil graduate school, she plays a significant role in shaping humanities education at Lund University. Her international collaborations reflect the global nature of contemporary textual scholarship.
