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Daniel Brodén

Research Coordinator

Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
Mail
daniel.broden@lir.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Daniel Brodén

Daniel Brodén is Associate Professor of Film Studies and coordinator at the Gothenburg Research Infrastructure for Digital Humanities (GRIDH). He has taught at the University of Gothenburg since 2000. 

He has a broad research profile spanning the media and cultural history of the Swedish welfare state; film theory and aesthetics; data-intensive methods and ”AI” in the humanities; digital research infrastructure and integrative interdisciplinarity; and the philosophy of education.

Brodén is currently researching the history of terrorism in Sweden within two funded projects: Terrorism in Swedish politics (SweTerror): A multimodal study of the configuration of terrorism in parliamentary debates, legislation and policy networks in Sweden 1968-2018 (DIGARV, Swedish Research Council), and The cultural imaginary of terrorism: Close and distant readings of political terror in Sweden during the Cold War (Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation).

Previously, he has worked on interdisciplinary syntheses of digital and “traditional” methods in The new order of criticism: Mixed methods in the study of Swedish literary criticism over a century and a half (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond), and on filmmaker Roy Andersson’s drastic critique of the development of the modern welfare state within the research program Religion, culture and health (Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture).

Brodén teaches in the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion and at the Unit for Pedagogical Development and Interactive Learning (PIL). He has previously been a visiting researcher at the SOM Institute and represented the University of Gothenburg in the national think tank Humtank.

He has published a range of articles, and his most recent book is Någonting har hänt: Roy Anderssons filmskapande och det moderna Sverige [Something Has Happened: Roy Andersson’s Filmmaking and Modern Sweden] (2016, Leopard Förlag).