Maria Freij

Maria Freij is a PhD Senior Lecturer in English at the Faculty of Economics, Kristianstad University, with a focus on Design Department. She is recognized as a Meritorious Teacher and serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Two Thirds North, contributing to Peer review and editorial work. Her research collaborations include projects like Possible and impossible worlds and The design phrasebook.

• Academic Roles: Senior Lecturer in English, Project Leader, Editor-in-Chief
• Key Affiliations: Faculty of Economics, Design Department, Two Thirds North

Research Interests span Transnational Adoption Memoirs, Life Writing, Sociology of Pandemics, and Higher Education Pedagogy. Her work intersects Literature Didactics, Creative Writing, and Gender Studies, with a focus on Lars Gustafsson's Fiction and Translation Studies. She explores Slow Food Movement and Media & Health dynamics.

Recent Publications include Reading in a Time of Crisis (2025), Transnational Adoption Memoirs (2025), and Editor's Foreword (2024). Her 15 most recent articles emphasize distance learning, fiction analysis, societal impacts of pandemics, and pedagogical development.

• Scientific Awards:
  • Meritorious Teacher

Project Leadership includes Possible and impossible worlds (2022–2023) and The design phrasebook (2023–2024). She supervises doctoral and master's students and contributes to literature didactics and pedagogical assessments through editorial and conference activities.