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Sam Holmqvist serves as an Associate Professor and Lecturer in the Department of Culture and Learning at Södertörn University. His academic work bridges gender studies, literary studies, and the history of ideas, with a specialized focus on trans history and LGBTQI literary heritage. He is actively engaged in teaching gender studies and research topics including trans history.
Education
- PhD (2017) - Dissertation: "Transformations", analyzing nineteenth-century fictional stories about trans characters.
Research Interests encompass trans literary traditions, gender history, and digital humanities. Holmqvist pioneered "trans readings" – a queer reading methodology focusing on trans-binary gender transgressions in literature. His current projects investigate historical gender perceptions prior to modern gender identity concepts, LGBTQI literature metadata, and anti-slavery argumentation in historical Sweden with attention to gender-race intersections.
Active Projects include:
- The People of Reality: Gender-Crossing Lives Before Trans – archival research on pre-modern gender experiences.
- QUEERLIT (RJ-funded) – developing a national database and thesaurus for Swedish LGBTQI fiction.
- Anti-Slavery Argumentation in Sweden 1790–1870 – interdisciplinary study of Swedish slavery discourse with art historian Åsa Bharathi Larsson.
He is also authoring a book on Lasse-Maja, re-examining the Swedish thief's life through lenses of sex work and community, and contributes to maintaining the QUEERLIT database post-2023 through KvinnSam.
