معرفی
Claudia Lindén serves as Professor and Program Coordinator in the Department of Culture and Learning at Södertörn University, teaching all academic levels including doctoral supervision. Her career includes prior positions in gender studies at Stockholm and Uppsala Universities, along with visiting research appointments at Humboldt University (Berlin) and the University of Helsinki.
She earned her PhD from Stockholm University in 2002 with a thesis on Ellen Key's feminist thought, establishing her foundation in Scandinavian feminist literary history.
Professor Lindén's research critically intersects Scandinavian Literature, Gothic Studies, Queer Theory, and Animal Studies to examine gender/sexuality through boundary transgressions—such as vampire narratives in Gothic fiction, animal-human transformations, and temporal destabilization in historical novels. Her work centers on 19th-century Scandinavian literature and the Modern Breakthrough period, consistently probing how literature problematizes identity through the fantastic and the marginal.
Analysis of her 1995-2018 publications reveals enduring engagement with feminist literary recovery (Ellen Key, Anne Charlotte Leffler), evolving into contemporary analyses of Gothic allegory (Karen Blixen, Twilight series) and boundary theory. Recent works demonstrate intensified focus on animal-human relationships and historical consciousness, culminating in her current monograph on Blixen's Gothic stories and the new "Bear Traces" project exploring national romantic bear symbolism around the Baltic Sea.
No scientific awards were documented in the source material.
She actively supervises doctoral students and leads significant research initiatives, including the ongoing "Bear Traces: A Study of the Bear in National Romantic Literature around the Baltic Sea" project. While specific grants remain unmentioned, her sustained publication record and project development indicate active research funding support.
