Publications
“Multilingual aspects in the literary writing of translingual authors in Sweden”
The experience of transnational migration often occasions an increased awareness of the coupling of language and identity, as migrants must represent themselves in unfamiliar tongues no less than unfamiliar spaces. Since the 1980s, a body of literature in Swedish has emerged that is focused on this struggle to understand and present the self in a new language. Increased attention to these kinds of ‘post-ethnic identity’ in Scandinavia at the turn of the millennium has focused critical energy on these literary figurations of language change. A central theme in the authorships of Swedish writers such as Theodore Kallifatides is the need to express one’s own identity in the context of a new language. This struggle takes the form of maintain internal cohesion – as well as the ability to express that coherence to others. Throughout many of these narratives, questions of power, discrimination and inequality lurk: reminders of the centrality of language in the public sphere, and the barriers to national belonging for those do not yet master it.
Chapter in Wolfgang Behschnitt (ed.) Literature, language, and multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries.
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012
Literary Denmark has spent the past two years searching within itself for a kind of literature common elsewhere in Europe but sadly lacking at home. “Poesi og prosa, der ser den danske virkelighed med nye øjne,” [Poetery and prose which sees Danish reality with new eyes] was the phrase that the Gyldendal publishing house and the Berlingske Tidende newspaper used to describe the goal of their competition Nye Stemmer, a “litteraturkonkurrence for alle med anden etnisk og kulturel baggrund” [literary competition for all those with a different ethnic and cultural background.] The resulting volume by the same name, published in early 2007, was an anthology of those writers who would, hopefully, represent the new, multiethnic Denmark. In this way, Gyldendal and Berlingske hoped that Danish literature would catch up with neigh- boring Sweden, where since 2001 authors such as Johannes Anyuru, Marjaneh Bakhtiari, Jonas Khemiri and Alejandro Leiva Wenger have formed the basis of an imagined ethnic lit- erature: a minority perspective within the nation-state but with roots beyond it, capable of depicting mainstream society through new eyes.
Article in Multiethnica. Meddelande från Centrum för multietnisk forskning Nr 31 October 2008. Uppsala University, Sweden
Invited Presentations
Digital Scholarship and the Archive: Micro- and Macroscopes
Topic Modeling the Great Unread
Analysis and Visualization Using Large Bodies of Electronic Text
Libraries: Issues & Inspiration - Data Mining Northern Europe
紀伊國屋書店 Kinokuniya International Library Roundtable
Waseda University Library, Tokyo, November 2010
Post-Ethnic Identity in Swedish Literature
Raoul Wallenberg Lecture Series
Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, May 2009
Identitet och vantrivsel: Kroppen mot staten i svensk och dansk samtidslitteratur
Seminar
Uppsala Center for Multiethnic Research, April 2008
Conference Papers
Network Analysis of Modernist Japanese Poetry
Modeling Folklore in the Google Books Corpus
Insights into Ibsen:
Remixing Scholarship Online
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
University of Washington, April 2010
Panel: Digital Scandinavian Studies
Men, Women and Pistols:
Staging Suicide in Mørk-Eidem’s Hedda Gabler
XIIth International Ibsen Conference
Shanghai, June 2009
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Augustana College, April 2007
Panel: Immigrant Literature
Awarded Aurora Borealis Prize for Best Graduate Student Literature
Paper
Revised June 2007
Home Alone:
Lilja 4-ever and the Crisis of Domestic Masculinity in Sweden
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Panel: Swedish Film
University of California, Los Angeles, April 2004
Articles in Preparation
MA Thesis, June 2005
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Public Events
Consulate General of Sweden, New York City, November 2005
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