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Lydia Wistisen is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University, specializing in children's and young adult literature. She teaches courses on children's and young adult literature as well as feminist and modern literary history.
Her research focuses on young adult literature and the complex relationship between text, space, and identity. Wistisen is currently leading the project The Child in the Wasteocene: Trash Thematics, Waste Aesthetics, and Environmental Ethics in Swedish Children's Culture 1969–1977, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, which examines how waste functions in Swedish children's media during a period of heightened environmental awareness. Previously, she completed her doctoral thesis Gångtunneln: Urbana erfarenheter i svensk ungdomslitteratur 1890–2010 (2017), analyzing city representations in Swedish young adult literature across more than a century, and conducted a postdoctoral project (2018–2020) on youth culture in post-war literature.
Wistisen's publications reveal strong thematic trends in environmental humanities, particularly waste studies and the Anthropocene, alongside urban studies and gender analysis. Her work frequently examines how literary representations engage with social issues including poverty, generational conflict, and identity formation. She approaches these topics through intersectional frameworks that consider age, gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality.
As an active member of the academic community, Wistisen reviews children's and young adult literature for Dagens Nyheter and has served on the editorial boards of Barnelitterært Forskningstidsskrift, Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, and Aiolos: Tidskrift för litteratur, teori och estetik. Her research is supported by significant grants including those from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and Anna Ahlström och Ellen Terserus stiftelse.
