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Professor in Literature and Education. My research interests are literature didactics, cultural studies, and (auto)ethnography. I have in various projects investigated ideas about the values of literature in school, public libraries, and a number of other arenas such as book clubs, literature festivals, and in fiction itself. My most recent book, Passionerad läsning, is about book lovers and passionate reading practices. I currently work with two large research projects, both funded by the Swedish Research Council: "The Literary Canon in Sweden. Consensus and Conflict in Educational Policy, Public Debate and Pedagogical Practice" (2025–2028), and "The fiction of numbers. How reading is made a public and didactic problem" (2022–2024). During many years I was the director of the post graduate school in Languages and Literature in Education (SMDI/SLDI). I have been the director of the national phd-school Language and Literature Didactics in the Media Landscape, a visiting professor at Karlstad university. I was appointed by the Swedish government to become a member of the Reading Council 2022–2024. My teaching is primarily in literature and cultural studies within teacher education.

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