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Art History and Visual Studies

Kristoffer Arvidsson, PhD and Substitute Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Studies. 20th-century art history, particularly the New Objectivity movement, Gothenburg colorism, abstract art, figurative art, neo-realism, and postmodernism, as well as romanticism, older graphic art, art theory, and museology.

Alexandra Fried Magnusson, PhD and Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Studies. Medieval painting and sculpture, Christian art, Renaissance art north of the Alps, American art, iconography, abstract expressionism, regionalism, the American Scene.

Alexandra Herlitz, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Studies. Critical historiography (mainly 19th century in Scandinavia), Scandinavian art and art history of the 17th to 19th century, sociology of art, artists' colonies and other international artist groups, art and national identity, art historical relations between the Scandinavian countries and Germany, Jewish patrons and collectors in Sweden.

Viveka Kjellmer, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Studies. Olfactory art, perfume. Multisensory communication, visual culture, exhibition design. Costume, scenography.

Karin Silverin, PhD candidate in Art History and Visual Studies. Olfactory art, contemporary art, multisensory perspectives.

Christina Tente, PhD candidate in Art History and Visual Studies. Post-photography, photography and crisis, photography and war, press photography, documentary photography, social media, digital media, non-human photography, North and Central American art, affect theory, critical archive studies, phenomenology, memes.

Astrid von Rosen, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies. Scenography history and theory, cultural heritage of the performing arts, multisensory methodology, the “dig where you stand” tradition, critical archive theory.

Karin Wagner, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies. Digital media, digital art, photography, design (packaging design and typography), visualisation.

Eva Zetterman,  Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Studies. Visual culture, visual semiotics, feminist art theory, performance art, street art, art activism, Chicana/o visual culture, feminist art practices, norm-critical historiography, Frida Kahlo, Karin Parrow.

Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies and Ethnology

Åsa Andersson, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies. working life and precarization, crisis of poular education.

Mathias Ericson, Associate Professor in Gender Studies and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies. Crisis issues in working life, organisational culture, masculinity, risk and crisis preparedness.

Helena Holgersson, Associate Professor of Sociology and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies. The equal city. More specifically: connections between gentrification, segregation and racism, housing inequality and the transformation of the public housing sector, the critical function of public space, and language and power in urban planning. Has also studied cultural policy, working conditions in the cultural sector, and the intersection of science and art. Currently part of the research environment “The Language(s) of Segregation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Spatial, Social, and Symbolic Division in Cities”  (link to project description).

Eva Knuts, PhD in Ethnology and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies. Customs and traditions related to holidays, weddings and wedding traditions.

Gleb Koran, PhD candidate in Cultural Studies. Marxism and post-marxism, new media, subcultures and countercultures, post-soviet culture and politics.

Elias Mellander, PhD and Senior Lecturer in Ethnology. Prepping, preparedness culture, consumption behaviour, sustainable consumption, humanities in professional life.

Andreas Nordin, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies. Anthropology of religion, dream research, culture and cognition (cognitive and evolutionary science of religion), ritual studies, pilgrimage studies, research on concepts of honour. Research interests also include art and aesthetics.

Caroline Reinhammar, PhD candidate in Ethnology. Contemporary everyday storytelling about climate change, narrativity, environmental humanities. Her current research project examines how notions of common sense are shaped in narratives about climate change and industrial initiatives to reduce climate impact.

Catharina Thörn, Professor of Cultural Studies. Urban development, the public sphere, power, resistance, processes of social change, homelessness, gentrification, urban sociology, urban development in Gothenburg.

Film Studies

Anna Backman Rogers, Professor of Aesthetics & Culture (specialisation in Feminist Theory). Feminist theory, Feminism, Visual Culture, Film, American Independent Cinema, American Studies, Film-Philosophy.

Mats Björkin, Professor of Film Studies. European film history (up to the 1960s), history of film infrastructures ( economy, distribution, production, exhibition, technology, politics, etc.), popular cinema in East Asia, industrial films (including housewives' films), Swedish film cultures in the 1940s.

Sama Khosravi-Ooryad, PhD candidate in Film and Media Studies. Internet memes, (beyond Western) mediated spaces, emerging digital cultures, feminist film & media theory, gender and politics, activist-visual-political cultures.

Mats Jönsson, Professor of Film Studies. Film as historical source material, media and power, archival research, audiovisual cultural heritage, newsreels, election films, amateur films, Gothenburg on film, media and information literacy (MIL).

Ellie Power, PhD candidate in Film Studies. Film studies, urbanism/cities in film.

Ingrid Ryberg, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Senior Lecturer in Culture, Aesthetics and Media (specialisation in feminist theory), and film director. Queer and feminist film cultures, film and activism, film historiography, film reception and experience, queer and feminist pornography, the feminist film movement in Sweden in the 1970s and 1980s, film as queer counterpublicity in Sweden 1940s–1980s, artistic research methods.

Karolina Westling, PhD and Senior Lecturer in Film Studies. Children and youth in film, French film culture, intergenerational relations on screen, children filming, film pedagogy, media literacy, the cinematic enfant terrible.

Lisa Åkervall, Associate Professor of Film Studies and Senior Lecturer in Culture, Aesthetics and Media (specialisation in aesthetic theory).
Digital and social media, media theory, cinematic affect, post-cinematic aesthetics, digital sound studies, and the cultural technologies of neoliberalism.

Gender Studies

Erika Alm, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies and PhD in History of Ideas. Trans and intersex studies, queer theory, feminist epistemology, medical humanities.

Zeynep Kuyumcu, PhD candidate in Gender Studies. Queer Muslim resilience and resistance, subjectivity and agency, feminist and LGBTIQ+ activism, anthropology of religion and spirituality, critical secularism studies, and anti-gender movements in Turkey. Zeynep's dissertation examines the religious and sexual practices of LGBTIQ+ Muslims affected by anti-gender movements in Turkey, driven by illiberal populism and religious authoritarianism.

Lena Martinsson, Professor of Gender Studies. Humanistic and Gender Studies Research on Politics, Critical perspectives on gender equality, Political subjectivities in school context, Anti-gender movements.

Gadea Méndez-Grueso, PhD candidate in Gender Studies. Debates between 'gender-critical'/'trans-critical' and trans-inclusive feminisms, Spanish feminism, populism. Body politics, trans and disabled intersections, bisexuality studies. 

Olga Sasunkevich, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies. Feminist and LGBTQI+ activism in Russia, gender relations and politics in Eastern Europe, anti-gender, illiberal populism, Belarus.

Jeanette Sundhall, PhD in Gender Studies and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies. Age, ageism, children’s rights, norms of adulthood, adultism. How representations and actual children are used by adults for political purposes. Currently involved in the research project “School in Society - Students, Principals, and Teachers as Political Subjects” (link to project description).

Juan Velásquez Atehortúa, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies and PhD in Cultural Geography. The coloniality of power, decolonial intersectionality, decolonial pedagogies, tentacular thinking, tentacular classrooms, förortsfeminism, Barrio feminism, material feminism, barrio women in the Anthropocene, Critical Animal Studies, Latin America's geopolitics, gendering practices, video-power, motorized men, and urban geographies in Venezuela, Colombia, Central America, and the Caribbean.

Musicology

Åsa Bergman, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Musicology. Music as a contemporary cultural phenomenon, music and power relations, negotiations of musical values and qualities.

Rastko Buljančević, PhD candidate in Musicology. Music in cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos, Pedro Almodóvar, Luchino Visconti and Pier Paolo Pasolini; Soundtrack in video-games and television series; Marxist theory; Psychoanalytic theory; Postmemory; Classical music in neo-liberal cinema; Contemporary capitalism; Musical aesthetics; Musical criticism and journalism; Performance studies.

Tobias Pontara, Professor of Musicology. Musical aesthetics, philosophy of music, music and cultural theory, music history, film music, interpretative theories of music, the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and their music, contemporary conceptions of classical music, conspiracy theories and contemporary media.

Anne Reese Willén, PhD and Senior Lecturer in Musicology. Swedish modern music history with a focus on the 19th and early 20th centuries, musical life in Stockholm during the long 19th century, structural changes, institutionalisation and professionalisation of musical life, the organisation and structures of concert life, musical repertoire, musical canon, canon formation, regional musical life in Sweden, etc.

Marita Rhedin, PhD in Musicology and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies. 20th-century Swedish song tradition, voice, song lyrics. Currently working on the project "Songs of the Swedish Suffrage Movement" (link to project description). Particular focus on composer Barbro Hörberg.

Retired members of staff

Alf Björnberg, Professor Emeritus of Musicology. Music’s media history, radio music, Swedish popular music, Melodifestivalen, Eurovision Song Contest, community singing, Christmas music.

Olle Edström, Professor Emeritus of Musicology. European music history, popular music up to the 1960s, ethnomusicology in general, joik and Sámi popular music in particular, music sociology and aesthetics.

Kerstin Gunnemark, Professor Emerita of Ethnology. People’s memories, narratives and reflections on personal belongings and what has been meaningful in life, analysed in different environments. For example, being young in the 1950s and furnishing a modern home. Detached housing, including summer cottages and urban homes, in the 20th century up to the present day, from a generational perspective. Has also developed the methodology of writing circles to stimulate autobiographical writing.

Lars Lilliestam, Professor Emeritus of Musicology. What people do with music – and why. Swedish popular music, music habits, music and cultural theory, music sociology, music and health, listening to music, song lyrics.

Mats Nilsson, Associate Professor in Ethnology. Tradition as a concept, customs and practices. Special interest: dance and dance music.