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Maria Jönsson serves as Professor in Literature and Senior Lecturer at Umeå University's Department of Culture and Media Studies, where she coordinates literature education programs. Her academic work spans the Faculty of Arts with significant contributions to interdisciplinary humanities research, particularly through Health Humanities and Litum (Literacy research with educational sciences orientation).
Her research centers on children's literature, literary didactics, and pedagogical approaches to literature education. She examines intersections of age, gender, and sexuality within literary representations of subjectivity and power dynamics. Current investigations focus on hormone narratives in women's transitions through the project It's the hormones. Women in transition through hormone narratives (2021-2026), exploring cultural constructions of menopause and aging.
Analysis of her recent publications (2023-2025) reveals evolving scholarly trajectories: increasing integration of health humanities with literary studies, innovative temporal frameworks in children's literature, and pedagogical models emphasizing care ethics alongside critical irony. Her work demonstrates consistent engagement with contemporary societal issues through literary analysis while maintaining strong foundations in Scandinavian literary traditions.
Jönsson actively participates in research infrastructure through Health Humanities and Litum groups, with current funding supporting hormone narrative research until 2026. Her academic service includes editorial contributions to journals like Barnboken and critical commentary in regional media such as Västerbottens-Kuriren. She maintains ORCID 0000-0001-6449-3738 and is recognized as a university teacher within Sweden's higher education framework.
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