About me

I am a literary scholar with an international profile, sound leadership experience and a solid background in working with project management and cultural exchange.

With a deep understanding of literary and cultural theory, I have explored questions of cultural memory, remediation and aesthetic experience in a wide range of cultural contexts. My practical and theoretical work have always enriched each other, and I find it stimulating to combine these perspectives.

Having led numerous projects, collaborative initiatives, and teams, I have learned to inspire and motivate others, and obtained excellent communication skills. My experience from leadership and project management has been a valuable asset in my teaching. At the same time, my knowledge in pedagogy has inspired my leadership.

Education

03/2021 
Teacher Exam. German as a Foreign Language (Upper Secondary School).

03/2015  
PhD exam in Comparative Literature, Uppsala University. Thesis on Literature’s Impact on Cultural Narratives in the Context of Transmediality.

03/2011 – 05/2011    
Teachers’ Training Course for University Teachers (7,5 ECT).

01/2010 – 06/2010    
Visiting researcher at UC Berkeley, Department of Comparative Literature.

09/2006 – 05/2007    
Documentary Filmmaking at Nordic Documentary Film School Biskops-Arnö.

12/2003     
M.A. from Freie University Berlin after studies at University of Tübingen, University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, University of Buenos Aires, Freie and Humboldt University Berlin. Main Subject Comparative Literature, Minor Fields of Study Art History and Cultural Studies. M.A. Thesis on Jorge Luis Borges and his Detective Fiction. 

Work

Malmö University, Sweden, 07/2021 –

09/2025 –
Lecturer at the Department of Languages, Culture and Media

09/2021 – 09/2025
Head of Department of Languages, Culture and Media

Swedish Arts Council, 01/2020 – 10/2022
Senior Advisor International Affairs

Goethe-Institut Sweden, 03/2015 – 03/2019
Head of the Department of Library and Information

Uppsala University, 2008–2015    
Doctoral Candidate, Research and Teaching

Reko, 01/2009 – 07/2011            
Initiator and project leader of Reko, artistic research project on artists’ production and economy (projektreko.org), with E. Krikortz, J. Rydén. Development, project management, fundraising.

University College Konstfack, 2007 – 2008         
Teaching at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Konstfack, Stockholm (spring 2007 and spring 2008). Development, teaching, course organization. 

Bonniers konsthall and Magasin III, 09/2006 – 12/2008        
Museum educator

Languages

German – First language
English, Spanish, Swedish – Excellent
French – Fluent  
Italian – Reading/basic conversation

Talks and presentations

• Remembering the Sandman. Trauma and Narrative in Film and Literature. Talk at the Department of German, Stockholm University, April 2014.

• Adaptation and Intermediality in Video Installations. Lecture at the Department of Intermediality, Lund University, April 2014. 

• Troubling Borders in K. Ataman’s video installations. Paper at the conference Disturbing Adaptations, Linné University, Växjö, September 2013. 

• Traveling in Traces: Performing Space in Fiona Tan’s Disorient. Paper at the ESSCS 2013, Bochum, September 2013.

• Reko: Was kostet die Kunst? Talk at Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, with E. Krikortz, June 2012.

• Double Visions. Literary Transformation in Stan Douglas’ Der Sandmann. Paper at the conference Across Media, NTNU,  Trondheim, May 2011.

• Literature in Art: Ekphrasis and Appropriation. Talk at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Konstfack, Stockholm, March 2009.

• Precarious Trends: Die Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft. Talk at NGBK (New Society of Fine Arts), Berlin, October 2010.

• Video Activism in the Digital Age. Talk at ZKM (Center for Art and Media Technology), Karlsruhe, September 2005.

Publications

• Screening Literature (Stockholm: Art and Theory, 2017).

• Moving Images of Literature: Transformations of Literature in Contemporary Video and Film Installation Art (Uppsala: Uppsala University, 2015). 

• “Revisiting the Future. Adaptation as a Critical Strategy in Gerard Byrne’s 1984 and Beyond,” in Kunstlicht, 32.01, Amsterdam 2011, 58–66.

• Rekorapporten 2010 (Stockholm: c/o konst, 2010), eds. Tanja von Dahlern, Erik Krikortz, Jan Rydén. 

• “Warum herkömmliches Fernsehen ersetzt werden muss,” in Neue Medien zwischen demokratischen und ökonomischen Potentialen, eds. Vanessa Diemand, Michael Mangold, Peter Weibel (Hannover: Heise, 2006), 193–206, with B. Schönafinger.

• “Des Wahnsinns letzter Schrei oder Die Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft,” in Prekäre Perspektiven – Informationen aus der Tiefe der Unsicherheit des sozialen Raumes, eds. Claudia Burbaum, Karin Kasböck (Berlin: NGBK, 2006), 80–87, with B. Schönafinger.

Pedagogical EDUCATION

09/2020 – 03/2022 Studies in Pedagogy (Teacher Exam for Upper Secondary School), University of Dalarna, Sweden (90 ECT).

03/2011 – 05/2011 Teacher Training Course for University Teachers, University of Uppsala, Sweden (7,5 ECT).

Pedagogical Statement

My experience as a teacher comprises diverse topics and heterogeneous groups and contexts. I have taught at university level, but I have also been a language teacher at secondary school and for adults. Moreover, I worked as a museum teacher, communicating contemporary art to diverse audiences. 

This background has helped me develop the ability to adapt to diverging contexts, conditions and expectations and it has also trained my improvisational skills. As a teacher, it is important for me to contextualize my subjects, and, having an interdisciplinary background, to combine different academic perspectives. I try to draw upon the students’ backgrounds and to fully acticate the potential of diversity in student groups. 

University Courses

Rhetorical Analysis 
7,5 ECT
Department of Rhetoric/Literature, Uppsala University (spring 2011, autumn 2012).

A-level, ca. 25 students.
Examination form: Paper and oral paper presentation. 
Assignment: Teaching seminars, supervising the students' papers. 

The course addresses first year students of rhetoric and is an introduction into rhetorical analysis and writing a paper.

Mobile Gleaning 
7,5 ECT
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm (spring 2008), with Rolf Hughes. 

Undergraduate level, 8 students from various institutions (mobilegleaning.blogspot.com). 
Examination form: Project work and oral project presentation. 
Assignment: Creating, organizing and teaching the course: seminars, lectures and supervision of the students' practical project work. Designing course literature, course structure and examination form.

The course addresses undergraduate students from different disciplines and seeks to explore the communicative potentials of the smartphone in relation to urban experience. The smart phone is today omnipresent – as notebook, still camera, audio recorder, photo album, music storage device, texting interface, blog updater, miniaturized laptop, video camera. An urban commuter, equipped with such a powerful device for a range of documentation, is ready to gather, accumulate and immediately forward snapshots of daily experience. Such ”mobile gleaning” thus recontextualizes fragments of experience within surroundings that we daily decode. How might we use this portable multi-function device as we interpret and interact with cities and their stories? The course combines seminars, lectures and practical student work.

Streaming Politics
7,5 ECT
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm (spring 2007). 

Undergraduate level, 15 students from various institutions. 
Examination form: Project work and oral project presentation. 
Assignment: Creating, organizing and teaching the course: seminars, lectures and supervision of the student’s practical project work. Designing course literature, course structure and examination form. 

The course addresses undergraduate students from different disciplines interested in reflecting on multiple uses and political potentials of the video medium. Students moreover acquire basic skills in video filming and editing. Great expectations accompanied video’s emergence in the late 1960s. Not only were the media towers going to topple and the individuals going to have their say, but the realms of art and society were to loose their boundaries: everyone would be a producer. Today, video is everywhere and the question to explore is what became of the medium since its early years. The course discusses theoretical and practical aspects of socially committed video in video activism, documentary and video art. It will concentrate on documentary works. Main aspects are: Video’s political potential, strategies of representation, video as a protest language, video activism and public spaces. The course combines seminars, lectures, practical student work and classes in filming and editing digital video. 

Other 

• Supervision of students’ papers, Department of Literature, Uppsala University (spring 2011). 

• Language teacher for adults (2005).

• Museum teacher at Bonniers konsthall and Magasin III, Stockholm (2006–08).         

Reko (2008–2012)

Initiator and project leader of Reko, an artistic research project on art and economy (projektreko.org), with E. Krikortz, J. Rydén. Reko examines artists’ conditions of production in Sweden. Reko takes contemporary art's criticality – often reserved for other social phenomena – and turns it towards the art sector itself. It strives after more transparency for art exhibition practices and sets focus on the working conditions of visual artists. The project collected and evaluated large amounts of data, arranged a seminar, published two reports and awarded the Reko Prize 2010 and 2011. Reko attracted considerable attention from art institutions, media and politics both in Sweden and internationally. 

Des Wahnsinns letzter Schrei (2005)

Director of Des Wahnsinns letzter Schrei, 56 min, documentary about social and political restructuring in Germany, with B. Schönafinger. Cinema screenings 2006–07 at independent cinemas in Germany as part of the cycle Die Gewerkschafter; Festival de l’image alternativ, Brest, 2005; Galerie Nord, Berlin, 2005; Globale, Berlin, 2006. 

Argentinien, März 2002 (2002)    

Director of Argentinien, März 2002 (D 2002), 58 min, documentary about the social movements in reaction to the economic crisis, with B. Schönafinger. Screenings at Videofestival des Kunstvereins München 2003; Transmediale, Berlin 2003; Kino Central, Berlin, during November 2002; FSK Kino, Berlin, during November 2002; Karlstorkino, Heidelberg, July 2002; Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, 2005; Riga Art Space, 2008–09; Salon Mladih, Zagreb, 2008; Nottingham Contemporary, 2008; Bildmuseet, Umeå, 2012, among other places.