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Gunilla Hermansson

Deputy Head of Department

Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
Telephone
+46 31-786 33 42
Mail
gunilla.hermansson@lir.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

Professor

Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
Telephone
+46 31-786 33 42
Mail
gunilla.hermansson@lir.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
412 55 Göteborg
Room number
J662
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Gunilla Hermansson

Presentation

I have been researcher and senior lecturer at LIR since 2009, professor since 2016. Since July 2022 I am also head of doctoral studies at the department.

Background

I studied Nordic literature at the University of Copenhagen and received my Ph.D.-degree in 2003 with a thesis on C.J.L. Almqvist’s Törnrosens bok (1833-1851). Before I came to Gothenburg, I worked as an editor of the collected works of H.C. Andersen, at the Society for Danish Language and Literature. I also conducted a postdoctoral research project on Danish and Swedish romanticism at the University of Copenhagen.

Research

My research has a distinctly Nordic profile and it has been devoted mostly to romantic, early avant-garde and modernist literature.

A common denominator is a historical interest, including the theory and problems of literary historiography, as well as an effort to combine close readings with theoretical reflections on the relationships between form, ideology and aesthetics.

Among my publications are five monographs:

Three books are co-written with colleagues in the Nordic countries and at the department:

Administration

2015-2017 Member of the review panel for aesthetic disciplines in the Swedish Research Council.

2016-2018 Subject representative (ämnesordförande) for comparative literature at the department.

2017-2021 Member of the Faculty Board

2021-2022 Coordinator of doctoral studies in comparative literature at the department

2022-2024 Assistant head of Department with responsibility for doctoral studies

2024-2028 Chair of review panel RJ Sabbatical

2024-2030 Deputy head of Department with responsibility for doctoral studies