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Research

I have a PhD in Art History and Visual Studies from the University of Gothenburg. My dissertation is about graphic art, graphic artists and an artist network active in a modernist field of art, seen from an aesthetic, a cultural-sociological and a gender perspective. From an initial focus on modernism and graphic art as material I have extended my research into combinations of words and images, such as popular prints and imagery, press images, book illustrations, comics and graphic novels, and contemporary art, often with educational, feminist and postcolonial perspectives.

I worked as senior lecturer in Cultural Studies at ������ý from 2015 to 30 June 2023, and I am still affiliated to KuFo, the Research group for culture studies. Before ������ý I had a tenured position as senior lecturer in Art History and Visual Studies, at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden, where I took part in the research program Concurrences –Narrating simultaneous and conflicting voices, a multidisciplinary research project, supported by the Swedish Research Council for the years 2011-2014.  Within this context I did research on contemporary African art, especially about Dak’Art, the Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary African Art in Dakar, and on West African comics and graphic novels.

Between 2018 and 2020 I was a member of the research project  ”A multidisciplinary study of feminist comic art”, funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies 2018-2020. Project leader was Kristy Beers Fägersten, Södertörn University, and members of the group were also Anna Nordenstam, Gothenburg  University, Elizabeth Nijdam, University of British Coulmbia, Leena Romu, University of Tampere, and José Alaniz, University of Washington.  

From 2019 to 2022 I was a member of the research project Contemporary Swedish Feminist Comics as Medium for Political Activism and Critique, funded by the Swedish Research council (VR2018-01165). Project leader was Anna Nordenstam, University of Gothenburg, and members of the group were also Kristy Beers Fägersten, Södertörn University, Mike Classon Frangos, Linnaeus University and Maria Margareta Österholm, Stockholm University. 

"Feminist comics activism: Stories about migrant women in Sweden by Amalia Alvarez and Daria Bogdanska", i: Comics and Migration: Representation and Other Practices, [red.] Ralf Kauranen; Olli Löytty; Aura Nikkilä; Anna Vuorinne, London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2023, s. 62-77.

"Feminist Art History as an Approach to Research on Comics: Meta Reflections on Studies of Swedish Feminist Comics." in Maggie Gray and Ian Horton (eds), Seeing Comics through Art History. Palgrave Macmillan 2022, page  163-183. Together with Anna Nordenstam.

Comic Art and Feminism in the Baltic Sea Region - Transnational Perspectives. Medredaktör till antologi. Routledge, 2021.

"Feminist Comics - An Expanding Field", page 1-14 in Comics Art and Feminism in the Baltic Sea Region - Transnational Perspectives. Routledge, 2021.

"Swedish Feminist Comics and Cartoons at the Turn of the Millennium: Joanna Rubin Dranger and Åsa Grennvall (Schagerström)", page 17-39 in  Comic Art and Feminism in the Baltic Sea Region: Transnational Perspectives, Routledge, 2021.

"Comics Craftivism: Embroidery in Contemporary Swedish Feminist Comics". In: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, ISSN 2150-4857, E-ISSN 2150-4865. Together with Anna Nordenstam, Full text: 

”Women’s Liberation. Swedish Feminist Comics and Cartoons from the 1970s and 1980s.” in  European Comic Art. Vol. 12,  Issue no. 2, Year: 2019, p. 77-105. Together with Anna Nordenstam.

”Tecknade serier: ett medium för klassrummet.” i Lindell, Ingrid & Öhman, Anders (red.), För berättelsens skull: Modeller för litteraturundervisningen, Natur & Kultur, 2019. S. 139-167. Together with Anna Nordenstam,

“Expressionisms in Sweden – anti-realism, primitivism and politics in painting and print.” In Isabel Wunsche (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context, Routledge, Page 206-221. London/New York, 2018.

“Queer visibility and visual resistance against homophobia at Dak’Art, The Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary African Art in Dakar 2014.” In Pemunta, Ngambouk Vitalis (ed.), Concurrences in Postcolonial Research – Perspectives, Methodologies, and Engagements. Page 199-216. Hannover: Ibidem-Verlag. 2018.

”An African Woman Coming to Voice Through a Multimodal Artwork.”. In Diana Brydon, Peter Forsgren, and Gunlög Fur (eds)., Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds. Toward revised histories. Brill Rodopi 2017, p 211-226.

“The Future in Swedish Avant-Garde Comics”, in Francesco Ursini, Adnan Mahmutovic & Frank Bramlett (eds.), Visions of the Future in Comics: International Perspectives. P. 211-228. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2017. Together with Anna Nordenstam.

“Editorial: Writing Comics into Art History and Art History into Comics research.” Journal of Art History, Vol 86, no 1, 2017. (Together with Ylva Sommerland)

”Afrika i tecknade serier: Ett postkolonialt perspektiv”, (Africa in comics: A postcolonial perspective), in Andersson, Maria & Druker, Elina, eds., Mångkulturell barn- och ungdomslitteratur: Analyser.(Multicultural literature for children and youth: Analyses), Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2017, pp.127-144. 

“Comics in postcolonial Senegal – Suggesting and Contesting National Identity”,  in La Cour, Erin, Magnussen, Anne  & Platz Cortsen, Rikke (eds.), Comics and Power: Representing and Questioning Culture, Subjects and Communities, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2015, pp. 244-262.

”To use comics and graphic novels as educational media for intercultural learning in a multicultural context.” In Proceedings of the 34th World Congress of the International Society for Education through Art. Diversity through Art | Change, Continuity, Context. 7-11 July 2014. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Victoria Art Education Inc. 2015.

“Dak’Art, the Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary African Art in Dakar – a Platform for Critical Global Views”, Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture, vol 28, issue 6, December 2014. 

“Dak’Art , The Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary African Art in Dakar. A site charged with political issues.” In CIHA2012 Nürnberg The Challenge of the object. Congress Proceedings Part 3. 33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art. P. 1084-1087. Nuremburg, Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, 2014.

”West African Tellings with Images and Words – Comics from Senegal”. International Journal of Comic Art, Vol. 15, No. 2, .Fall 2013, p. 145-166.

”Perspektiv på tecknade serier – visuella konventioner, autofiktiv narration och postkolonialt berättande”, (Perspectives on sequential art – visual conventions, autofictive narration and postcolonial storytelling.) Valör, konstvetenskapliga studier, nr 2 2011, p. 26-36.

”Bilder i läroböcker”(Illustrations in educational books), in Ammert, Niklas (ed.), Att spegla världen. Läromedelsstudier i teori och praktik, (To reflect the world. Studies on Educational books in theory and practice.) Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2011, p. 219-232.

”Kvinnlig lättja som motiv i ballad och bild”, (Female sloth as a motif in ballads and visual art) in Elleström, Lars (ed), Intermediala perspektiv på medeltida ballader, (Intermedial perspectives on medieval ballads.) Hedemora: Gidlunds förlag, 2011, p. 217-236.

“Genusperspektiv på pressbilder – identiteter och stereotyper”,  (Gender perspectives on press images – identities and stereotypes). in Angelfors, Christina & Schömer, Eva (eds.) En bok om genus .Växjö: Växjö University Press, 2009. p 123-140.

Föreningen Original-Träsnitt, Grafik och grafiker på ett tidigt modernistiskt konstfält, (The Swedish Society of Original Wood Engraving. Graphic Art and Graphic Artists in an Early Modernistic Field of Art). diss., Gothenburg Studies in Art and Architecture nr 18, Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, Göteborg, 2004.