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Costanza Beltrami is a Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics. She is a dedicated art historian with a focus on Gothic art and architecture of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, particularly in the Spanish region of Castile and its international connections. Her research interests include architectural drawings, collaboration, transculturation, and temporality in architecture. Dr. Beltrami teaches courses on Medieval and Renaissance art and architecture from Cordoba to Florence. Her academic background includes studying Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and working at the University of Oxford/St Catherine's College before joining Stockholm University. Her research has focused on late-Gothic architecture, including a monumental drawing of a tower from Rouen cathedral and ornament prints as artists' models. She is Reviews Editor for the Journal of the British Archaeological Association and has completed her PhD thesis on Juan Guas (active 1453–1496), the leading architect of late fifteenth-century Spain. She is currently working on a book project about collaboration, artistic identity, and the geographies of exchange in late-Gothic Castile. Her co-edited volume "Art, Travel and Exchange between Iberia and Global Geographies, 11400–1550" challenges traditional narratives about Iberian art history and emphasizes multi-directional cultural exchange. Dr. Beltrami's recent research includes editing a special issue on portable drawings and paper in Medieval and Gothic architecture. Her work explores how architectural practices in Castile demonstrate fascinating questions regarding migrant networks, cultural contact, the meanings of architecture, and the role of art in debates on national identity from the 15th century to the present.

• Gothic Art
• Gothic Architecture
• Late Medieval Architecture
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Irina Rasmussen is an Associate Professor (Docent) at the Department of English , Stockholm University, specializing in modernist literature across British, American, Irish, and Russian traditions. Her research extends to the history of aesthetics , dialectical materialism , and world literature from the 19th to mid-20th century. As a member of Forum Modernism , she explores both mainstream and marginalized expressions of modernism while critically interrogating the concept itself. Primary research areas: British/American/Irish/Russian modernism, aesthetics history, dialectical materialism Current book project: "Vernacular Modernisms: Poetics of the World" Published in: James Joyce Quarterly , Modernism/modernity , James Joyce Broadsheet Her scholarship emphasizes: Form-sensitive readings of modernist texts Intersection of nationalism and internationalism in Joyce's work Political implications of archival practices (e.g., Gumby Collection analysis) Curatorial approaches in modernist documentation For thesis supervision in literary theory, postcolonial criticism, or world-literature frameworks, contact: irina.rasmussen@english.su.se

• British Modernism
• American Modernism
• Irish Modernism
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Frida Beckman is a Professor in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University. Her academic career spans roles at Uppsala University, Linköping University, and Stockholm University's Department of English before her current appointment in 2018. She serves as director of literary research and sits on the Faculty of Humanities' scholarship committee, while also contributing to editorial boards for journals like Symploke and Modern Fiction Studies . Education: PhD in Literature from Uppsala University (2009) Beckman's research focuses on American literature and culture post-WWII, with deep engagement in critical theory and Gilles Deleuze's philosophy. Her work explores themes such as agency, subjectivity, spatiality, temporality, and the intersection of culture with political power structures. Her current project examines African American literature and critique after 11940, while her recent popular science book Postmodernismen (2023) provides accessible insights into postmodernist thought. Her publications reflect a synthesis of theoretical frameworks, including postcritique, Foucault-Deleuze analysis, and allegorical interpretations of contemporary narratives. She actively bridges academic discourse with public intellectual work through podcasts, interviews, and media contributions on topics like postmodernism, conspiracy theories, and critical philosophy.

• American Literature
• Cultural Theory
• Critical Theory
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Isak Lidström is a Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (GIH), belonging to the Department of Movement, Culture and Society’s Sport Management section. He holds a PhD in Sport Science and specializes in sports history, particularly focusing on Sámi sports history, ethnic minorities, and the early modern history of ball games in Sweden. His teaching emphasizes sports history and its sociocultural dimensions. His research explores themes such as the cultural legacy of medieval ball games (e.g., jeu de paume in Gotland) and the technological evolution of skis. Lidström has authored popular history books like The Last Executioners (2023) and contributes to cultural writing, including essays on sports history for Svenska Dagbladet . He actively bridges academic research with public engagement through publications and media involvement. Recent work includes analyzing the sportification of Sámi lassoing and the industrialization of ski wax technology. His scholarship intersects sports technology, cultural history, and social dynamics, reflecting a commitment to interdisciplinary approaches. Collaborations span historical analyses, cultural commentary, and institutional partnerships.

• Sports History
• Ethnic Minorities Studies
• Early Modern History
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Michael Sappol is a visiting researcher at the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University. Originally from Queens, NY, he now resides in Stockholm, Sweden. His academic career has been primarily focused on the visual culture and performance of medicine, science, and technology, with particular attention to representations of the human body. His research interests span a wide range including history of medicine, science and technology; the body; the self; film studies; history of photography; history of anatomy; history of the museum; media studies; cultural studies; queer studies; gender studies; modernity; history of the diagram; and print culture. His current projects focus on Anatomy's photography: Objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1860-1960 and Queer anatomies: Medical illustration, perverse desire and the epistemology of the anatomical closet . Sappol's recent publications reveal a consistent focus on the intersection of visual culture and medical history, particularly examining how scientific illustrations function as cultural artifacts that reflect and shape societal understandings of the body. His work frequently engages with queer theory and challenges conventional interpretations of historical medical imagery, as seen in his influential 2021 article on Joseph Maclise's anatomical illustrations. His scholarly output demonstrates expertise across multiple disciplines, connecting historical medical practices with contemporary theoretical frameworks. Sappol has published extensively in journals including British Art Studies , Issues in Science & Technology , and Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences . Before joining Uppsala University, Sappol had a distinguished career outside the traditional university system, serving as scholar-in-residence and curator-historian at the National Library of Medicine in the United States. During this time, he curated numerous exhibitions and websites for the general public, establishing himself as a prominent figure in the public presentation of medical history.

• history of medicine
• history of science and technology
• visual culture of medicine
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Anna Swärdh is an Associate Professor (Docent) in the Department of English at Stockholm University, where she has been teaching since 2020. Previously, she taught at Uppsala, Kalmar, Örebro, and Karlstad universities. She teaches and supervises students at all academic levels, primarily in literature but also in academic writing. Dr. Swärdh received her PhD from Uppsala University in 2003 with a dissertation titled "Rape and Religion in English Renaissance Literature," which examined four literary texts against the background of religious controversies following the English Reformation. Her research focuses on early modern literature and culture, with particular emphasis on how texts from this period have been received over time. In recent years, she has increasingly explored early-modern connections and exchanges between England and Sweden. Her scholarly work demonstrates a consistent engagement with rhetorical strategies in early modern texts, gender studies, and cross-cultural diplomatic exchanges during the Renaissance period. Her publications reveal a trajectory from focused literary analysis of Shakespeare and his contemporaries toward broader cultural-historical investigations of Anglo-Swedish relations. The most recent works increasingly examine female agency within patriarchal structures, diplomatic representation, and the material dimensions of early modern communication including letters, portraits, and architectural spaces. Dr. Swärdh serves as Treasurer and board member of SWESSE (The Swedish Society for the Study of English) and as Vice-President and board member of NAES (The Nordic Association of English Studies). She has received significant research funding from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) for multiple projects, including 'The Emulative Complaint: Imitation and Innovation in Late Elizabethan Complaint Poetry' (ref. 421-2006-1612) and the ongoing 'The Rhetoric of Patronage: Cultural Imprints of Helena, Marchioness of Northampton' (ref. 2016-01521), which examines cultural imprints left by the Swedish-born Helena, Marchioness of Northampton (1549–1635).

• Early Modern Literature
• Early Modern Culture
• Literary Reception Studies
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Monika Lindbekk is an affiliated researcher and postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University. Her work focuses on legal cultures, comparative law, and gender dynamics in judicial systems, particularly in Muslim-majority contexts. She leads the project Adjudicating Islamic Family Law in Egypt: Continuity and Rupture , analyzing Egyptian family court rulings before and after the 2011 revolution. Lindbekk also collaborates on initiatives like the CITIZENS LAW project (Dutch Research Council) and mentors scholars through the JUST SOCIETY interdisciplinary program. Her research interests include Islamic legal studies, children's rights, and the intersection of law with religion and technology. Notable projects include Gender and Judging (Law and Society Association) and the Uses of the Past HERA-funded project on shari'a discourse. She contributes to the Cairo Research Centre, fostering academic collaboration on Middle Eastern studies. Lindbekk's recent publications address topics like Egyptian personal status reform, shari'a legal frameworks, and gender dynamics in family law. Her work emphasizes judicial practices in Muslim-majority environments, legal mobilization, and post-revolution legal shifts. She has presented at conferences on child rights, Islamic inheritance law, and Middle Eastern legal sociology. Lindbekk previously held roles at the University of Oslo and the British University in Egypt. Her current projects explore child custody rights in comparative legal cultures and the evolving role of law in socio-political contexts.

• Legal Cultures and Comparative Law
• Gender Decision-making in Courts
• Islamic Legal Studies
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Gunnel Cederlöf is a Professor of History at Linnaeus University's Department of Cultural Sciences and a member of the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. She specializes in environmental, legal, and colonial history, with a focus on early modern and modern India and the British Empire. Her work bridges global and local histories, examining the interplay of nature, political power, and societal change. She holds a PhD from Uppsala University and has held visiting positions at institutions including Oxford University and Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research includes projects like 'Exception and Emergency: British Imperial Governance in Asian Frontier Tracts' and 'Trans-Himalayan Flows, Governance and Spaces of Encounter.' Key publications include Landscapes and the Law (2019) and Founding an Empire on India's North-Eastern Frontiers, 1790-1840 (2014). Awards and roles include membership in the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters and leadership in STINT (2013-2019). She teaches courses on postcolonial environments and supervises students at undergraduate and graduate levels.

• Environmental History
• Colonial History
• Legal History
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Daniel Kane serves as Professor of American Literature in the Department of English at Uppsala University, specializing in modern and contemporary American poetry alongside New York City's avant-garde and post-1960 popular culture movements. His academic credentials include a BA from Marlboro College (1990) and PhD from New York University (2000), reflecting foundational training in American literary studies. Kane's research investigates poetry's dynamic relationships with film, theater, music, and visual arts, with particular expertise in the New American Poetry, New American Cinema, and the multidisciplinary New York School. His scholarly scope encompasses Beat Generation studies, Downtown NYC culture (including CBGB, La Mama, and Max's Kansas City), 20th-21st century avant-garde traditions, and punk rock's literary dimensions. This interdisciplinary approach reveals how poetic innovation emerges through cross-medium dialogue within specific urban contexts. Analysis of his 2020-2024 publications shows persistent engagement with New York School poetics and Language poetry, examining figures like Harryette Mullen and Michael Sappol through frameworks connecting correspondence studies, queer theory, and cultural history. His editorial work on Joe Brainard's letters and Bernadette Mayer's correspondence demonstrates commitment to preserving avant-garde legacies while analyzing how poetic communities function across artistic boundaries. Daniel Kane has supervised eight doctoral candidates whose research spans contemporary American poetry valuation systems, Dennis Cooper's anarchic aesthetics, young adult media combinations, William Blake's countercultural reception, Jack Kerouac's creative destruction concepts, Charles Henri Ford's modernist renovations, Ezra Pound's pre-war state power engagements, and Charles Bukowski's cinematic influences—evidencing his mentorship's breadth across literary historical periods and methodological approaches.

• American Poetry
• Avant-garde Culture
• New York School
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Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann is a **Professor** and Chair of Aesthetics at the **Department of Philosophy** of **Uppsala University**, Sweden. Her work bridges philosophical inquiry into art, ethics, and cultural heritage. She holds positions as both a faculty member and researcher, actively contributing to academic discourse through numerous publications and editorships. Her research focuses on **aesthetic experience**, **artistic morality**, and **cultural heritage ethics**, with notable works exploring the intersection of aesthetics with moral and intellectual pursuits. Recent publications include the 2024 article *Thinking the Aesthetic: Towards a Noetic Conception of Aesthetic Experience* and *What Do We Owe Beautiful Objects?*, advocating for ethical obligations toward aesthetic values. Key themes in her work include **aesthetic judgment**, **moral psychology**, and **historical vs. aesthetic value in artifacts**. She frequently collaborates with institutions like Bloomsbury Academic and Oxford University Press, co-editing volumes such as *Aesthetics, Philosophy and Martin Creed* (2022). Her contributions span journals like *Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism* and *British Journal of Aesthetics*. **Areas of Expertise**: Aesthetics, Art Philosophy, Ethics in Art, Cultural Heritage. **Recent Projects**: Exploration of noetic conceptions of aesthetic experience, ethical obligations to art, and retroactive aesthetic judgments.

• Aesthetics
• Art Philosophy
• Ethics in Art
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Emil Stjernholm is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the Department of Communication at Lund University. He obtained his PhD in 2018 and subsequently received the Swedish Research Council's international postdoc grant for his research project "Televising Information: Audiovisual Communication of Swedish Government Agencies" (2020-2023), during which he spent time at Utrecht University and the University of Copenhagen. His research profile is interdisciplinary, focusing on three main areas: propaganda, preparedness culture and strategic communication; digital methods; and visual communication. He is currently involved in several significant research projects including "Soundscapes of Warning" (2024-2026), where he leads SP2: Information studying public service broadcasting's role in Swedish crisis communication. He also co-heads "The State Advertises" project with Fredrik Mohammadi Norén, which aims to digitize government-commissioned posters from the 1920s to present. Additionally, he participates in the "Modern Times 1936" project exploring expressions of modernity through various media from 1936. Stjernholm has made significant scholarly contributions through edited volumes including "Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion" (2022) and "Media Tactics in the Long Twentieth Century" (2024). His work critically examines the historical context of propaganda and persuasion, particularly in the Nordic region, while connecting these historical perspectives to contemporary debates about misinformation and disinformation. He is actively engaged in academic service as vice chair of the Swedish Association for Media and Communication Studies (FSMK) and as a board member of the Nordic Media History Network (NOMEH). He is also part of the steering group for the interdisciplinary research environment "Communication, Defence Willingness, and Democratic Resilience" (CDR) at Lund University. The Harry Karlsson Prize (2019) The Westrup Award (2019) Stjernholm's work demonstrates a strong commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration, bridging traditional disciplinary boundaries through digital methods and media historical approaches. His current projects reflect ongoing engagement with both historical analysis of media and communication practices and their contemporary relevance, particularly in the context of crisis communication, democratic resilience, and the historical roots of strategic communication practices.

• propaganda
• preparedness culture
• strategic communication
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Göran Rydén is a Professor at Uppsala University's Department of Economic History and affiliated with the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF). His research focuses on the creation of modern society, industrialization, technological change, and global historical connections, particularly Sweden's role in the 18th-century Atlantic economy. Research Themes: Industrialization, Iron Industry, Atlantic Trade, Enlightenment Studies, Urban History. Recent publications analyze coerced labor in Swedish ironmaking regions, localized knowledge production, and the integration of Swedish iron into global trade networks. His work bridges economic history with transnational cultural and technological exchanges. Key trends in his articles include the intersection of metallurgy and colonial economics, the role of iron in the Atlantic slave trade, and the evolution of Swedish industrial practices through European knowledge circulation.

• Economic History
• Industrialization
• Technological Change
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Joanna Maria Zatorska-Rosén is a Lecturer at Stockholm University’s Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German . Holding a PhD in Slavic Languages, she specializes in Polish-Swedish relations and Polish cultural heritage in Swedish collections, particularly through the lens of book collections from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth era. Current Role: Lecturer in Polish language and cultural history Research Focus: Polish-Swedish cultural exchange, early modern book collections, heritage preservation Key Collaborations: Faculty of History (University of Warsaw), Skokloster Castle research network Her recent publications and conference papers analyze socio-political literature in wartime libraries, comparative art studies, and historical bibliography. She has contributed to international symposia on early modern European collection studies and Polish diaspora heritage. No formal scientific awards are documented in the provided materials. Teaching includes Polish I (SLPOL1), Polish II (SLPOL2), and specialized seminars on Polish cultural history. She maintains active ties with research teams at Stockholm University, Skokloster Castle, and the Royal Armoury.

• Cultural History
• Polish-Swedish Relations
• Heritage Preservation
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Michelle Gordon is a Researcher at Uppsala University's Department of History and Uppsala Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She leads the Swedish Research Council-funded project Entanglements of the British Empire, the Holocaust and the Perpetration of Extreme Violence , analyzing British troops' awareness and rationalization of Holocaust violence during/after WWII within colonial contexts. She holds a PhD in History from Royal Holloway, University of London, specializing in genocide studies and imperial violence. Research Focus: Her work examines colonial paradigms linking British/German imperial violence to 20th-century genocide. Key interests include: Perpetrator perspectives in British/German colonial conflicts Transimperial violence networks Visual representations of colonial atrocities Historiography of extreme violence Current projects reassess 19th-century European colonial warfare's influence on modern genocide. Publications: Gordon's 15 most recent works (2014-2025) concentrate on colonial violence, Holocaust connections, and imperial memory. Dominant themes include comparative analysis of British/German atrocities, perpetrator rationalization, and decolonization narratives across Africa/Asia. Her research consistently employs interdisciplinary frameworks bridging military, cultural, and genocide studies. Leadership: She heads a major research initiative studying imperial continuities in violence, funded by the Swedish Research Council. No awards, students, or part-time status are mentioned in available materials.

• Holocaust and Genocide Studies
• British Empire
• European Colonial Violence
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Maria Mårsell is a researcher at Södertörn University's Department of Culture and Learning, specializing in the intersection of peace studies, gender studies, and Scandinavian literary criticism. Her work critically examines peace thematics within colonial and militaristic contexts through the lens of early feminist authors Frida Stéenhoff, Elin Wägner, and Hagar Olsson. Mårsell completed her Ph.D. dissertation titled "The Critical Potential of Peace Thematics: Feminism, Militarism and Colonialism in Frida Stéenhoff, Elin Wägner and Hagar Olsson," establishing her expertise in decolonial peace research within literary frameworks. Her research focuses on peace studies, gender studies, and Scandinavian literature with particular emphasis on utopian realism, militarism ontology, and colonial critiques in Nordic feminist writing. She analyzes how literary texts from the Modern Breakthrough era engage with peace activism and social transformation, revealing connections between literary expression and historical peace movements. Mårsell's publications (2008-2023) demonstrate consistent interdisciplinary engagement across journals like Journal of Gender Studies and Nordic Theater Studies. Her recent work explores positive peace frameworks in Stéenhoff's writings and war mythology in Wägner's works, showing evolving methodological approaches from literary analysis to philosophical ontology. No scientific awards are documented in her academic profile. Mårsell has no listed doctoral or master's students and is not currently participating in any research projects, indicating absence of active supervisory roles or grant funding. There is no available information regarding her involvement in specific research laboratories or collaborative academic teams.

• Peace Studies
• Gender Studies
• Literary Studies
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