
Personlig presentation av Katherina Dodou
I am a lecturer in English, docent in English literature with specialisation in literature education (litteraturdidaktik) and Pro-Dean of the University Faculty Board.
My research focuses on literary study as an educational project. I am particularly interested in subject conceptions, knowledge mediation as well as the value and legitimacy of literary study in English. I have explored these questions in relation mainly to general academic English courses and teacher education courses, and also to compulsory and upper secondary curricula in Sweden. I have also published work in the area of literary criticism, with a special focus on contemporary Anglo-American literature and the literary representation of identity. I am a founding member of the Nordic scholarly association Literature Education Network (Litteraturdidaktiskt Nätverk, https://ju.se/forskning/forskningsinriktningar/litteraturdidaktiskt-natverk.html) and a member of the editorial board for the Nordic Journal of English Studies.
My teaching has covered various areas of English studies, mainly contemporary English-language literature and culture, literary history, children’s literature, literary theory, BA and MA thesis supervision, and to some extent also academic writing and English for specific purposes. The courses I have taught have been both general English courses and English courses in primary teacher education and in secondary and upper secondary teacher education. In 2017, I was awarded the distinction Scholar of Teaching (Excellent lärare).
I am a former member and chair of the Faculty Board for Humanities at Dalarna University (2013-2020). I have assessed several programmes of study, in internal, mainly, but also in external, collegial evaluations. Since 2017, I am also the Dalarna University representative in the national collaborative project Humtank, sponsored by the humanities faculties at 15 Swedish universities and university colleges (http://humtank.se/).
- Literary scholar, teacher educator? : English staff profiles and attitudes to teacher education, Nordic Journal of English Studies, 2021. Artikel : refereegranskat. .
- The Relevance of English Literary Study in Primary Teacher Education : A Swedish Syllabus Review, 2021. Artikel : refereegranskat. .
- Litteraturstudiers plats i det akademiska engelskämnet, Ingår i: Litteraturdidaktik, Natur och kultur, 2020. Kapitel av bok. .
- The Value of Studying Literature : A Review of the English Higher Education Curriculum in Sweden, Nordic Journal of English Studies, 2020, Vol. 19, No. 1, 257-298. Artikel : refereegranskat. .
- What Are Literary Studies For? : A Review of English Teacher Education in Sweden, Educare - Vetenskapliga skrifter, 2020, Vol. 3, 110-157. Artikel : refereegranskat. .
- Det som gör humaniorautbildningar värdefulla, Humtank, 2019. .
- Charlotte Lindgren samtalar med Katherina Dodou om undersökning av litteraturstudier i ämnet engelska, Högskolan Dalarna, 2019. .
- Seminarier i litteraturhistoria, Ingår i: Digitalisering av högre utbildning, Studentlitteratur AB, 2018. Kapitel av bok. .
- Reading and the Profession : On the Literary Education of English School Teachers, Acta Didactica Norge - tidsskrift for fagdidaktisk forsknings- og utviklingsarbeid i Norge, 2018, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1-17. Artikel : refereegranskat. .
- Satirical Frame of Mind : Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country and the Literary Engagement with 9/11, European Journal of American Studies, 2017, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1-17. Artikel : refereegranskat. .
- "Studenterna kan inte problematisera" : Om ämnesidentitet, signaturpedagogiker och litteraturvetenskapigt tänkande i akademiska språkämnen, Utbildning och Demokrati, 2017, Vol. 26, No. 3, 39-63. Artikel : refereegranskat. .
- Att lära sig tänka humanistiskt, 2017. .
- Internationalisering genom nätbaserad kollaboration : Högskolan Dalarnas och University of Botswanas gemensamma magisterkurs i engelska: ramar och pedagogiskt mervärde, Kultur och lärande, 2016. Rapport. .
- Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea and the travelling memory of the Great Irish Famine, Ingår i: The Leaving of Ireland, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2015. Kapitel av bok. .
- Mångfald bortom identifikationer : studentpopulationens diversifiering och vetenskapens arbetssätt, Högre Utbildning, 2015, Vol. 5, No. 3, 175-187. Artikel : refereegranskat. .
- The Leaving of Ireland : Migration and Belonging in Irish Literature and Film, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2015. .
- American Malady : 9/11, Disease, and the Experience of Terrorism in Don DeLillo's Falling Man, Ingår i: European Views of the United States, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014. Kapitel av bok. .
- Jim Sheridan’s The Field and the Memory of Dispossessed Irishness, NIS, 2014, Vol. 13, No. 1, 111-128. Artikel. .
- Special issue: Cultural Memory and the Remediation of Narratives of Irishness, Dalarna University Centre for Irish, 2014. .
- America after 9/11 : Ethnic Diversity and Patriotism in John Updike’s Terrorist, Ingår i: Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature, Rodopi, 2013. Kapitel av bok. .
- Examining the Idea of the Child : Childhood in the Contemporary British Novel, Ingår i: The Child in British Literature: Literary Constructions of Childhood, Medieval to Contemporary, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Kapitel av bok. .
- Childhood Without Children : Ian McEwan and the Critical Study of the Child, Uppsala Universitet, 2009. Doktorsavhandling. .
- Dismembering a Romance of Englishness : Images of Childhood in Ian McEwan’s The Innocent, Ingår i: Ian McEwan : art and politics, Winter, 2009. Kapitel av bok. .