Karin Larsson Eriksson

Karin Larsson Eriksson is a Professor of Musicology at the Department of Music and Art, Linnaeus University, specializing in music ethnology and traditional music. She serves on the Faculty Board of Arts and Humanities, acts as vice-chair of the faculty's employment board, and represents the faculty on the university's Quality Committee.

Research Interests include Swedish traditional music from historical and contemporary angles, particularly folk music education for amateurs, ideological influences on musical practices, and cultural heritage applications. Her work often utilizes film documentation and interviews from song courses (2013–2015).

Recent publications explore folk music education, manuscript analysis, and intermedial studies of ballads. She contributes to journals like Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning and Puls: Musik- och dansetnologisk tidskrift, with a focus on workshop dynamics, pedagogical methods, and archival studies.

Research Groups:

• Center for Applied Cultural Heritage
• Ethnographic Forum
• Cähl - Center for Subject Didactic Research in Arts and Humanities