Sven Anders Johansson
Professor|Professor
- Professional title: Professor
- Academic title: Professor
- Area of responsibility: Literary Studies
- Telephone: +46 (0)10-1427842
- Email: svenanders.johansson@miun.se
- Room number: M432
- Location: Sundsvall
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- Employed at the subject:
- Comparative Literature
Background
Sven Anders Johansson began his university studies in Uppsala in 1990. He received his doctorate at the University of Gothenburg in 2003, while he was living in Peru. After moving back to Sweden in 2005, he made a living as a literary critic and journal editor. In 2010, he got a tenure track position at Umeå University, where he stayed until 2016. In 2017, he got the position of professor at Mid-Sweden University. Johansson has also been a visiting PhD-student at the University of Copenhagen (1998–99), visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam (2012), visiting professor at Aarhus University (2018), and guest researcher at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna (2023).
Area of interest
Theories of subjectivity and subjectivation
Critique and Critical theory
Environmental Humanities
Theodor W Adorno
Gilles Deleuze
Love
Cynicism
Autofiction
Notions of evil
Research
Current projects:
"Till ambivalensens försvar" (book)
"Läsa/lyssna" (conference paper)
Finished project:
"Nordic poets and critics" (with Dan Ringgaard, Martin Glaz Serup et al).
"Freethinking, Hesitation, Weirdness: Reconsidering the Anthropocene through History, Literature, and Art" (with Carin Franzén & Jesper Olsson, part of The Seed Box).
Teaching and tutoring
Johansson teaches regularly both on undergraduate level and advanced level.
He is currently the supervisor of Osvald Wiklander's and Joni Hyvönen's PhD-projects.
Other information
Member of the advisory board of the journal Glänta.
Member of the editorial board of Riksbankens Jublieumsfond's yearbook.
Member of the think tank Humtank.
Literary critic, and former literary editor, of the daily Aftonbladet.
Extra contact information
Nordic Poets & Critics-Project