This is what I can lecture on and give workshops

  • Swedish children's literature - general
    Swedish young adult novel

    Swedish picturebooks
  • Scandinavian picturebooks
  • International picturebooks (various aspects)
  • The aesthetics of picturebooks 
  • Postmodern picturebooks
    The Swedishness of Swedish children's literature: national identity

    Russian children's literature - general

    Early Soviet picturebook experiments

    Soviet children's literature as a social utopia

    Recent trends in world children's literature: "postmodern" children's literature

    National identity in children's literature: the Finno-Swedish example

    The Moomin novels as a national myth

    Fantasy: general
  • Fantasy for children: general
    Myth, fairy tale, fantasy

    Postmodern fantasy

    Mindscapes: fantasy as a reflection of the inner world

    Puer Aeternus: a motif in children's fiction

    Children's literature and critical theory (psychoanalysis, structuralism, feminist theory, queer theory)

    Children's literature and narrative theory: What can we learn from it

    Toward a theory of character in children's fiction

    Representation of consciousness in children's fiction

    Children's literature as carnival
    Time and mythical thought in children's fiction
  • Subjectiivty and identification in children's literature
  • Utopia and dystopia in children's literature
  • Children's literature as (post)colonial space
  • Reaing, literacy and reception theory
    The myth of childhood in the works of Astrid Lindgren
  • Subversion of power in the works of Astrid Lindgren
    The function of food in children's literature
  • Cats in literature
    Scandinavian Andersen Medal Winners
  • Atsrid Lindgren Memoral Award and the Award-Winning Authors
  • Place and space in children's literature
     

and on general literature:

  • The works of Selma Lagerlöf
    The interaction of cultures: Swedish-Russian example

    The image of the child in Swedish literature and film

    19th century Russian novel

    20th century Russian novel
  • Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the novel
     

Here are some of the places where I have lectured. Add your university to my map!
 
 


 

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