My teaching and research are in the area of English-language literary studies and literature education. As member of the interim board of teacher education, I work with university-wide questions concerning quality in teacher education and research in educational science.
I received my PhD in English from Uppsala University in 2010 and I first came to Dalarna University in the same year. During my time as a lecturer at Dalarna, I have engaged in service to the profession of various kinds, for instance as head of the English subject and as chair of the Faculty Board for Humanities at Dalarna University (in the latter capacity, I was involved in for the assessment of educational quality). I am also a former Dalarna University representative in Humtank, a think tank for research and education in the Humanities sponsored by 14 Swedish universities and university colleges (Humtank). In the period 2022-2025, I was a researcher in English education and member of the research project EDUCATE at the Department of Teacher Education and School research, University of Oslo.
I am a founding member of the Literature Education Network, which I co-chaired 2017-2023), a steering group member of English Education Scholars Sweden (since 2024) and a member of the editorial board for the Nordic Journal of English Studies (thematic editor for literature education since 2023).
My teaching covers various areas of English studies, mainly contemporary English-language literature and culture, literary history, children’s literature, literary theory, as well as BA and MA thesis supervision. The courses I teach are both general English courses and English courses in primary teacher education and in secondary and upper secondary teacher education.
In my research, I have been interested in the value, conditions and enactment of literature teaching in English across educational settings, from primary school through higher education. I have also been interested in the potential of literature to portray human experience and to help understand societal phenomena, and I have written on such topics as the Great Irish Famine and 9/11 terrorism in contemporary Anglo-American fiction.