Amelie Björck

Amelie Björck is an Associate Professor and part-time Lecturer at Södertörn University's Department of Culture and Learning. She specializes in Drama and Theatre, Animal Studies, and Posthumanist Perspectives, with a focus on the cultural representations of farm animals and temporality in art.

• PhD in Literary Studies (2010), with a dissertation on Swedish radio family series and social change
• Coordinator of the theme Exploring the Animal Turn at the Pufendorf Institute (2014)
• Active in the Ratatosk Research Group at Södertörn University

Her research explores animal agency, anthropocentric temporality, and posthumanist ethics through literature, performance art, and cultural analysis. Recent projects include the forthcoming book Zooësis (2019), which investigates how farm animals are represented in late modern art culture.

Scientific projects and publications include:

• Analysis of temporal structures in human-animal narratives
• Performance works involving pigs and humans
• Critical studies of animal rights activism and zoopoetry
• Comparative studies of primates in Nabokov and Stridsberg

Amelie also engages in public discourse as a cultural writer and theater critic for Aftonbladet.