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Lovisa Andén is a Senior Researcher at Åbo Akademi University's Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology, and an Associate Professor in Philosophy at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She co-founded and leads the MYTH (Memory, Testimony and Historiography) Research Centre, focusing on testimonial literature, memory cultures, and historiography. Her current project, 'Muted Memories and Silenced Stories: Memoirs by Women of the Gulag Archipelago' (2022-present), funded by the KONE Foundation, examines representation and truth in Gulag women's memoirs. Previously, she led a postdoctoral project on Western Gulag survivors' memoirs funded by Östersjöstiftelsen.
- PhD in Philosophy (2017) from Uppsala University/Södertörn University
- Co-editor of Merleau-Ponty's unpublished 1953-1954 Collège de France lectures
- Active in academic presentations (e.g., 2023 talks on Siberian deportations, Gulag narratives)
Her research applies phenomenological frameworks to analyze language, experience, and truth in literary testimony. Articles from 2025 explore testimonial authenticity in women's Gulag memoirs, while her 2024 monograph 'Mer verklig än verkligheten' systematizes Merleau-Ponty's literary philosophy. Earlier work bridges Proustian aesthetics with phenomenological theories of expression.
Scholarly contributions span interdisciplinary topics: 2023-2024 publications on memory-historiography interplay; 2021-2022 analyses of Gulag literature's fact-fiction dynamics; 2018-2020 foundational studies of Merleau-Ponty's linguistic theories. This output demonstrates sustained engagement with phenomenology, literary testimony, and Eastern European memory politics.
