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Katarina Leppänen

Head of Department

Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and
Religion
Mail
katarina.leppanen@lir.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Room number
C629
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

Professor

Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and
Religion
Telephone
+46 31-786 58 72
+46 766-18 58 72
Mail
katarina.leppanen@lir.gu.se

About Katarina Leppänen

I have a professorship in History of Ideas/Intellectual History and I act as Head of Department since 2018. My current research project is part of the ”Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures” program led by Stefan Helgesson at Stockholm universitet (http://worldlit.se/). During the academic year 2009-2010 I was employed at Åbo Akademi University in Finland at the Department of Gender Studies and thereafter at Uppsala University. Previous research includes projects such as ”Representation and articulation of national identity in Finland and Estonia 1900-1940: Theoretical readings of Aino Kallas and Hella Wuolijoki”, ”From suffrage to citizenship” and ”Gender, race, sexuality: Constructivism or essentialism”. I have also worked as the editor of the journal for intellectual history, Lychnos, and the Swedish gender studies journal Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift and on the editorial boards of Baltic Worlds and Ideas in History. I am a board member of The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (https://ostersjostiftelsen.se/en/).

In 2005 I defended my thesis on the Swedish feminist Elin Wägner and her involvement in the European women’s movement, especially focusing on ideas about, gender, nature and history, Elin Wägner’s Alarm Clock: Ecofeminist Theory in the Interwar Era, Lanham, Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007. My research interests include international issues relating to gender and ecology, gender and nationalism , gender and the League of Nations in the interwar era, such as trafficking in women, married women’s nationality and education for internationalism. More recently I have engaged in research on religion, sexuality and emancipation.