University of Gothenburg
  2. About
  3. Find staff
  4. Stefan Ekman

Stefan Ekman

Senior Advisor

SND
Telephone
+46 31-786 65 75
+46 766-18 65 75
Mail
stefan.ekman@gu.se
Visiting address
Guldhedsgatan 5A, vån 3
41320 Göteborg
Room number
3.089
Postal address
Box 468
40530 Göteborg

About Stefan Ekman

Stefan Ekman received a PhD in English literature from Lund University in 2010, with a thesis on the function of environments in fantasy literature, and was accepted as docent in 2019. He also has a MSc in economics with a focus on development and environment. He works for the Swedish National Data Service (SND), between 2013 and 2021 as domain specialist in the humanities and coordinator for teaching and training, from 2024 as senior advisor. In his current research, he explores a framework for how worlds of speculative fiction are constructed for critical analysis, and has analysed the role of social criticism in so-called urban fantasy. Within the latter profile, he recently published Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic (Lever Press, 2024). The book won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies (2025) and is available with open access. Since 2022, he is the chair of the international Fantasy Online Research Seminar (FORS), where fantasy scholars meet twice a month for guest seminars, text discussions, and feedback on work in progress.