My research is informed by my broad interest in aesthetics, American and European literary history, art history, and the history of ideas. Place and space are also central to my research. I study literary texts in relation to places as varied as tourist destinations and formal institutions, such as academia and higher education. While most of my research has focused on modernist poetry, my research interests include American literature in general, modern and contemporary poetry, and Scandinavian poetry.
I also take an interest in literature education, most recently concerning the history of poets and poetry in higher education.
I have published extensively on modernist poetry and modernism more broadly. My doctoral dissertation, 鈥淪warming European Consciousness鈥�: Europe and Tradition in the Work of William Carlos Williams (Link枚ping University Press, 2015) examined Williams鈥檚 relationship with Europe. I have published articles on H.D., William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway. Areas I have explored include little magazines, agency, ecopoetics, and space/place. I have also published on postwar and contemporary American poetry and literature in general, with articles on Jack Kerouac and Siri Hustvedt, focusing on ecocriticism and aesthetics respectively. Other publications have dealt with topics such as nostalgia in American poetry, poetry and science, and the transformation of literary texts as they appear in textbooks for EFL and literature education.
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Europe and Modern American Poetry
The Europe Trope is a research project that explores the important role that European travel has played for American poetry, from the ways in which the modernists tackled tradition by way of European travel to the postwar poets鈥� reckoning with their modernist forebears in Europe鈥檚 places.
This project has resulted in the book Constructions of Europe in Modern American Poetry, forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press (2025).
Research for this project has been funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond RJ Sabbatical, The Birgit and Gad Rausing Foundation for Research in the Humanities, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, The 脜ke Wiberg Foundation, The Magnus Bergvall Foundation, and The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.
Poets in Higher Education 鈥� Interactions between Forms of Knowledge
What is the relationship between poetry and pedagogy? Between artistic and academic knowledge? Poets in Academia: Poetics, Praxis, and Pedagogy is a research project that investigates the work modern American poets have performed in higher education, especially in the United States. Through archival work, I examine the teaching materials of poets who worked in academia and other forms of education. Above all, I want to find out how poets鈥� poetics and aesthetics inform their pedagogy and how teaching and academic work have shaped their poetry and poetics.
The project will result in a book with the working title Teaching and the Evolution of Modern American Poetry. P氓 svenska: Projektet kommer att utmynna i en bok med arbetstiteln Teaching and the Evolution of Modern American Poetry.听Initial archival work on this project has been funded by The 脜ke Wiberg Foundation and The Magnus Bergvall Foundation.
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The Translation of Experience
What happens when experience becomes art and art becomes experience? What kind/s of experience does the reading and writing of experimental poetic form offer in itself and how is this poetic experience different from other forms of experience? How are these translated into one another? Can they be? These are some of the questions guiding the research in the project Translating Experience: Experiments in Form. Together with the poet Athena Farrokhzad (PI of the project) and Sophie Seita, Goldsmiths, London, I am part of an artistic research project on the translation of experience which seeks to develop new knowledge on the translation of experience at the intersection of scholarly inquiry and art. The research is funded by The Swedish Research Council VR Exploratory Workshop in Artistic Research grant.听
Research Collaboration
I am the President of the William Carlos Williams Society, .
Approaches to Teaching the Poetry and Prose of William Carlos Williams (MLA).
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Outreach
I give talks on poetry and literature in various settings, to different audiences. I have been invited to lecture on poetry and literature education in schools, both to students and to practicing teachers. In 2022, I participated in a project called 鈥淎 Year of Poetry鈥� in a Swedish middle school and high school, giving talks about poetry. I have published pieces on poetry and American politics, poetry and poetics, and ecocriticism in daily newspapers and popular-science publications. I have participated in webcasts and podcasts on poetry and literature more broadly.听
