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Cecilia Lindhé

Director

Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
Telephone
+46 738-29 99 01
Mail
cecilia.lindhe@lir.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Cecilia Lindhé

Cecilia Lindhé is a research leader and internationally recognized scholar in digital humanities, research infrastructure, and digital cultural heritage. Her work is characterized by a rare combination of theoretical depth and infrastructural vision: she integrates literary and aesthetic scholarship with digital innovation, developing research environments that not only support scholarship but actively reshape how knowledge in the humanities is produced, visualized, and shared.

She is Director and founder of GRIDH – Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities (formerly the Centre for Digital Humanities) at the University of Gothenburg.

Lindhé received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Uppsala University in 2008 with the dissertation Visuella vändningar. Bild och estetik i Kerstin Ekmans romankonst (Visual Turns: Image and Aesthetics in Kerstin Ekman’s Oeuvre), awarded by the Swedish Academy. The dissertation established her long-standing engagement with intermediality, visuality, and aesthetic theory, and continues to inform her current research on ecological aesthetics and literary form in Kerstin Ekman’s authorship.

Over the past fifteen years, she has combined humanistic scholarship with strategic infrastructure development. She has held leading roles as researcher, teacher, and director, including serving as Director of HUMlab at Umeå University prior to founding and leading GRIDH. Her work bridges literary studies, digital materiality, archival theory, visualization, and pedagogy, and she has been instrumental in building sustainable digital research environments and interdisciplinary collaborations at local, national, and international levels.

She is currently engaged in several major externally funded projects, including:

Maritime Encounters: A Counterpoint to the Dominant Terrestrial Narrative of European Prehistory (PI: Johan Ling, RJ Program, 47 MSEK),

Terrorism in Swedish Politics: A Multimodal Study of the Configuration of Terrorism in Parliamentary Debates, Legislation, and Policy Networks in Sweden 1968–2018 (Co-PI with Mats Fridlund; PI Jens Edlund, DIGARV, Swedish Research Council, 22 MSEK),

Tracing Carvers on the Rocks (PI Johan Ling, DIGARV, Swedish Research Council, 18 MSEK),

In addition, she is currently conducting two major research initiatives related to Malta: a book-length historical study of the Gollcher family and its movements from Danzig in the early eighteenth century via Sweden to Malta, and a series of articles on Scandinavian travellers to Malta between 1650 and 1950. Alongside these projects, she is writing a monograph on Tommy Körberg’s interpretations and orchestrations of Swedish poetry, further extending her longstanding interest in intermediality and aesthetic mediation.

Lindhé has played a central role in the development of national research infrastructures, contributing to initiatives such as Infravis, SveDigArk, Huminfra, and SweClarin. She serves or has served on numerous boards and advisory bodies, including:

Government-appointed member of the Royal Library’s Advisory Council (2018–),

Member of the Expert Council for Research Infrastructure, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (2022),

Member of the Steering Group for the national research infrastructure SveDigArk (2022–),

Member of the Steering Group for the national research infrastructure Infravis (2019–2022)

Member of the operative leadership grouo of the national research infrastructure Huminfra (2020–2022)

Member of the Assessment Committee for Aesthetic Sciences, Swedish Research Council (2021–2022),

External board member, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Linnaeus University (2022–2024),

Member of the Research Council, Tekniska Museet (2020),

Member of the AI and Digitalization Coordination Group (SAID), University of Gothenburg,

Editorial board member of HUMAN IT,

Member of several national and Nordic reference and steering groups in digital humanities and cultural heritage.