Maria Trejling

Maria Trejling is a researcher at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University. She holds a Doctor of Literature degree and specializes in intersections between philosophy and literary theory, with a focus on continental philosophy (especially deconstruction) and psychoanalysis.

• Initiator of the Forum Modernism research network
• Guest researcher at Arizona State University (2022) and University of Glasgow (HT21)

Research Interests

• Literary theory and deconstructive metaphysics
• Animal studies and posthuman ethics
• Modernist aesthetics and tropological analysis
• Hauntology and spectral figuration
• Ecocriticism and Anthropocene narratives
• Philosophy-literature interfaces

Publications explore creaturely expressivity through metaphors in modernist texts (D.H. Lawrence, H.D., Virginia Woolf) using Derridean frameworks. Her work spans theoretical monographs, journal articles, and critical reviews.

Awards

• Karin and Karl Ragnar Gierow Scholarship (2025)

Teaching includes courses in ecocriticism, literary analysis, modernist literature, and thesis supervision. She contributes to interdisciplinary education through her research networks.