Jimmie Svensson
Senior Lecturer
Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and ReligionAbout Jimmie Svensson
Jimmie Svensson earned his PhD in literary studies in 2016, at Lund University. He has since been teaching in Gothenburg, Karlstad, Umeå, and at Linnaeus University. He has previously worked as a schoolteacher, qualified to teach English, German, History and Swedish.
Svensson’s research focuses on poetic form with semiotics, adapted from C. S. Peirce, as an essential theoretical framework. The doctoral thesis examined how auditive and visual verse form creates meaning in 20th century Swedish poetry (with examples from Edith Södergran, Gunnar Ekelöf and Tomas Tranströmer, among others), from four different perspectives: figurative language, intertextuality, the metalyric, and emotionality.
Svensson's postdoc project, conducted at Umeå University 2020–2022, on contemporary oral poetry reading practices, involved digital, quantitative methods, and gave his research profile an intermedial focus. In addition, he has worked with older literature, most notably as co-editor of a research anthology on the Swedish Romantic Esaias Tegnér, and in a translated and commented selection of poems by Friedrich Schiller.