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Oscar von Seth is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, currently placed at the Department of History, King's College London. His academic journey began with a PhD in Comparative Literature in 2022 from Uppsala University, with a dissertation titled "Outsiders and Others: Queer Friendships in Novels by Hermann Hesse."
His research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields including queer theory, gender studies, comparative literature, disability studies, and film studies. Von Seth's theoretical work focuses on "queer waiting," a concept he has developed through examining entanglements of queerness and waiting in literary and cinematic narratives. His work also explores representations of the AIDS epidemic, masculinities, and queer kinship formations, with particular interest in human-animal studies and the homosexual emancipation movement in the German-speaking world before WW2.
Von Seth's current postdoctoral project, "Queer Waiting in Literature and Film," is funded by the Swedish Research Council and will result in a monograph to be published by Bloomsbury in 2026. His work has appeared in journals such as Lambda Nordica and REDEN, and in edited volumes like "Queer Kinship and Comparative Literature" and "Hermann Hesse's Global Impact."
- Second place in Umeå novellpris (2014)
Alongside his research, von Seth supervises MA essays and participates actively in public discourse about queer representation in media. He has contributed to Swedish cultural discussions through interviews with Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Nyheter, and Sveriges Radio, focusing on topics ranging from bisexuality in popular culture to queer waiting in film and literature. He has also participated in events like the Uppsala Short Film Festival's "Queer Utopia" viewing.
Before his academic career, von Seth worked in theatre as a prompter and assistant director to Lars Norén, and as a contemporary dancer. He also debuted as a novelist in 2017 with "Snö som föll i fjol" (Yesterday's News).
