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Jenny Bergenmar

Director of Studies

Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
Telephone
+46 31-786 43 30
Mail
jenny.bergenmar@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 43 30
Mail
jenny.bergenmar@lir.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Jenny Bergenmar

Professor, Comparative Literature

Orchid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6761-3544

Research interests:

  • Digital humanities (diversity in infrastructures, information history, metadata practices)

  • Medical humanities

  • Literature, disability, and neurodivergence

  • Queer literature and theory

  • History of reading

  • Reception history

Ongoing research:

I am currently working with a Destination Horizon project on the translation of queer metadata, and preparing for the project Reading beyond the norm: Neurodiversity, fiction, and reading practices. I am also participating in the research network connected to the database DIDOC, Dawit Isaak Database of Censorship, https://didoc.dh.gu.se.

Previous projects:

2019–2024. QUEERLIT. Metadata Development and Searchability for LGBTQI Literature. The purpose of the project is to create a database of Swedish LGBTQI literature, and to develop the indexation of LGBTQI literature, serving to enable further research within the field.

The project is funded by Riksbankens jubileumsfond 2021-2024: https://www.rj.se/en/anslag/2020/queerlit-database-metadata-development-and-searchability-for-lgbtqi-literary-heritage/

https://queerlit.dh.gu.se

2023-2024 Edited the volume Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture (Bloomsbury 2025) with Louise Creechan (Durham University), and Anna Stenning (University of Southampton) published in the series Critical Interventions in Medical and Health Humanities.

2018 Remembering Selma Lagerlöf, funded by Riksbankens jubileumsfond (projektledare). This citizen humanities project collected letters to the public from Selma Lagerlöf as a continuation of the project The Public’s Letters to Selma Lagerlöf 1890-1940.

2014-2016 Swedish Women's Writing on Export in the 19th Century, funded by The Swedish Research Council. The project sought to re-evaluate the historical material connected to certain authorships and texts without restricting it to national histories or literary canons, in order to shed light on on women’s importance as cultural mediators across borders. The results were published in this volume: Swedish Women’s Writing on Export. Tracing Transnational Reception in the Nineteenth Century.

2008–2013, The Public’s Letters to Selma Lagerlöf 1890-1940, funded by Riksbankens jubileumsfond. This history of reading project explored the thousands of letters from the public that were sent to Selam Lagerlöf during her literary career.

2010-2013 Member of Managament Committee COST-action ISO901, Women Writers in History: Toward a New Understanding of European Literary Culture

2008–2012, The Selma Lagerlöf Archive, a digital critical edition and digitization project now available at the Swedish Literature Bank.

2012 Narrating Autism, funded by Anna Ahrenberg’s fund. This project explored texts about and by people with autism spectrum disorder within a Critical Disability Studies framework.

Övrigt:

Member of programme committe dariah Annual Event 2026, Rome, https://annualevent.dariah.eu

Member of Review Panel HS-A: Aesthetic Disciplines, Swedish Research Council 2023-2025

Director of Studies in Comparative Literature, Theatre Studies, and Digital Humanities 2023–2026

Subject Chair for Comparative Literature, Theatre Studies, and Digital Humanities 2021–2023

External member of the Faculty Board for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Karlstad University 2019–2022

Program coordinator for Digital humanities Master programme 2015-2017.

Head of teacher training education at the Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion, 2013– 2014.