Niclas Johansson

Niclas Johansson is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Language and Literature at the School of Education, Culture and Communication, Mälardalen University, where he has taught since 2018. He serves as head of comparative literature and Forskarutbildningsledare (Head of Doctoral Education).

He earned his PhD in 2017 from Uppsala University with the dissertation The Narcissus Theme from Fin de Siècle to Psychoanalysis: Crisis of the Modern Self. His research spans modern literature (late 19th to early 21st century) across Swedish, English, German, and French, focusing on identity construction, narrative structures, and meaning-making processes. Key publications analyze authors including André Gide, Paul Valéry, Oscar Wilde, Sigmund Freud, and Hermann Hesse, with recurring themes of selfhood crises and cultural identity.

Currently leading a Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation-funded project on narrative and cultural identity in contemporary autofictive migration accounts, Johansson integrates theoretical frameworks from psychoanalysis and comparative literature. As Head of Doctoral Education, he oversees graduate supervision and program administration within his division.