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Jenny Björklund is a Professor of Gender Studies and Director of the Center for Gender Studies at Uppsala University. She received her doctorate in literary studies from Uppsala University in 2004 and has taught and researched at multiple institutions including Stockholm University, Linnaeus University, and UCLA.
Her primary research interests include:
- Reproductive decisions and climate change
- Childlessness/childfreedom studies
- Motherhood studies
- Queer readings of literature
- Literature and gender across 20th-21st century
Björklund's research investigates how climate change intersects with family formation and reproductive decisions. She has published on parenthood representations in Swedish climate fiction and collaborates with reproductive health researchers on how people reason about reproductive choices in relation to environmental crises. She leads the project 'Reproductive Choices in the Age of Climate Change,' examining family formation discussions in media and civil society.
Her work on non-motherhood challenges the involuntary/voluntary childlessness binary, bringing together perspectives from literature, cultural studies, gender studies, and sociology. She edited 'Negotiating Non-Motherhood: Representations, Perceptions, and Experiences' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
Björklund has made significant contributions to queer readings of Swedish literature through monographs like 'Lesbianism in Swedish Literature: An Ambiguous Affair' (2014) and 'Maternal Abandonment and Queer Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Swedish Literature' (2021). Her research on mothers who abandon families utilizes queer theoretical frameworks that explore failure as resistance against societal norms like pronatalism and nuclear families.
From 2021-2024, she led a work package in MotherNet, a European motherhood research network funded by EU's Horizon 2020. Between 2012-2020, she co-edited the Nordic LGBTQ journal lambda nordica with Ulrika Dahl.
