Claudia Lindén

I am a professor of Comparative Literature. Prior to my current position at Södertörn University, I worked in the department of Gender studies at Stockholm and Uppsala University. I have been a visiting scholar at Humboldt University in Berlin, University of Helsinki. I teach at all levels in Comparative literature, from the first semester to doctoral dissertation, mainly with a focus on 17th and 19th-century literature, and theory with gender orientation.
My first research interest, feminism and masculinity during the Scandinavian Modern breakthrough, continues to interest me, and I have both edited anthologies and published articles, and I regularly give lectures on this topic. In addition to Scandinavian nineteenth-century literature, my research is situated in the intersection of comparative literature, feminist and queer theory, gothic studies, animal studies and philosophy of history. I am particularly interested in how literature shapes and problematizes gender and sexuality in relation to different kinds of boundaries, such as the gothic with vampires and specters, transformations as well as other forms of animal-human relations, the destabilization between the presence and past in the historical novel. I am finishing up a monograph on Karen Blixen's Gothic stories focusing on gender, history, and animals, and have just begun a new animal studies-oriented research project: Bear traces: a study of the bear in national romantic literature around the Baltic Sea.

Recent publications include:
“The Vampire, the Undead and the Anxieties of Historical Consciousness” Claudia Lindén and Hans Ruin, in Ethos of History, ed. Stefan Helgesson and Jayne Svenungsson Berghain, London 2018
”Den hemliga länken: Almqvist Key, Skansen och rösträttsrörelsen” i Almqvistvariationer. Receptionsstudier och omläsningar, red. Anders Burman och Jon Viklund, Makadam 2018
"Die Idee der Mütterlichkeit bei Ellen Key" i  Neues Licht auf Ellen Key. Que vadis Europa? Biographische Skizzen über eine europäische Vordenkerin, Margit Hansen (Hrsg.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Edition 2017.
”Krig och gotik. Politisk allegori i Karen Blixens Vedergällningens vägar” I Fiktion och verklighet red Anna Bohlin och Lena Gemzöe, Makadam 2016
“It Takes a Real Man To Show True Femininity. Gender-transgression in Goethe’s and Humboldt’s concept of Bildung, in The Humboldtian Tradition red. Thomas Karlsohn, Brill publisher 2014;
”Virtue as Adventure and Excess. Intertextuality, Masculinity, and Desire in the Twilight series”, Culture unbound http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/v5/cul13v5_feminist_cultural_studies.pdf




Edited books:
I krig med samhället och andra texter, Förord urval och introduktioner Claudia Lindén Rosenlarv förlag 2013. (342 s.)

Att skapa en framtid. Kulturradikalen Anne Charlotte Leffler, red David Gedin & Claudia Lindén, Rosenlarv förlag 2013 (168 s.)