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Lena Karlsson

Lena Karlsson

Docent | Senior lecturer | Deputy head of department

Lena Karlsson
Contact details
  • Email: lena [dot] karlsson [at] genus [dot] lu [dot] se
  • Phone: +46 46 222 42 33
Organisation
  • Department of Gender Studies
  • Service point: 31
Webpage
Other affiliations
  • Director of studies
    Graduate School
  • Director of studies
    Faculty Office

Background

In 2001, I received my PhD in English at Umeå University with the dissertation Multiple Affiliations: Autobiographical Narratives of Displacement by (Im)migrant U.S. Women. In the main, I have been a Gender Studies scholar at Lund University since 2002 when I was awarded the Swedish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. I became docent in Gender Studies at Lund University in 2013. 

Research Areas

  • Feminist cultural studies, digital media
  • Narrative theory and methods
  • Life writing
  • Sexual violence

Current  research and teaching

In the main, my research interests revolve around representation, narration and democracy.  My key focus has been autobiographical narration, both in terms of representation and reception. What and whose story is given legitimacy? How? 

In my most recent research projects I have analyzed personal narratives of sexual violence. How are witness narratives used to mobilize for social change in digital media campaigns against sexual violence? How are digital witness narratives produced, circulated and received? In my ongoing research project, The #metoo momentum and its aftermath: digital justice seeking and societal and legal responses, I investigate understandings of justice and desired justice responses that emerge through #metoo witness narratives.

 

Publications

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Introduction

Lena Karlsson has a PhD in English (2001) and is a senior lecturer and docent in Gender Studies (2012).

Research projects

The #metoo momentum and its aftermath:digital justice seeking and societal and legal responses (financed by the Marianne och Marcus Wallenberg Foundation)

5 Dec 2024