Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber
Social and behavioural sciences, Social anthropology, ethnology, sociology
Journalism and information, Languages, Social and behavioural sciences
English, esp. American literature
American 20th and 21st century literature; multimodal novel; gender studies; ethnic studies; autobiography; literary theory; impact of the digital on literature and culture; sensory perception and literature
Member of the Uppsala University Board, since 2013
Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, 2000 – 2001
Grant from the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1995 – 1997
Grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, 1989
English, French, Polish, Swedish
"Toward a Concept of Post-Postmodernism or Lady Gaga's Reconfigurations of Madonna." With Maria Engberg. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 12.4 (2013).
"Writing Affiliation and Dislocation in the Memoirs of Ihab Hassan and Edward Said." Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism 31.3 (2009): 202-213.
Authority Matters: Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Authorship. Co-edited with an introduction with Stephen Donovan and Rolf Lundén. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008.
"Towards an Aesthetic of Smell or, The Foul and the Fragrant in Contemporary Literature." CAUCE 24 (2001): 637-651.
"Intellectual Self-Fashioning: The Case of Frank Lentricchia and Ihab Hassan." European Legacy 5.6 (2000): 863-874.
Eros, Logos, and (Fictional) Masculinity. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1998.
Reading Texts: An Introduction to Strategies of Interpretation. Co-authored with Eleanor Wikborg. Oslo: Scandinavian UP, 1995.
"Frank Lentricchia's Critical Confession, or The Traumas of Teaching Theory." Style 33.3 (1999): 406-413.
" 'The insertion of the self into the space of borderless possibility': Eva Hoffman's Exiled Body." MELUS 20.2 (1995): 133-147.
The Pictorial Turn in Literature: Reading Fiction Today (book
project)
The Many Lives of American Kitsch (book project)
Tactility and Realism Today (article)
The End is Nigh, or Book Fetishism Today (article)
Member of the Board of the Swedish Research Council, since 2010
Member of Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet in Uppsala, since 2007
Member of Kungl. Vetenskaps Societeten, since 2007
Member of the International Association of University Professors of English, since 2000
Modern Language Association (MLA)
The International Society for the Study of Narrative
The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
The Nordic Association of American Studies (NAAS)
International Society for Intermedial Studies
Dartmouth College, The Future of American Studies Institute, faculty member, June 2011, 2012, 2013
University of Chicago, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Visiting Scholar, 2008
Bucknell University, Senior Fulbright Scholar, 2000 – 2001
Columbia University, Visiting Scholar, 1996
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, Visiting Scholar, 1989
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, Vilas Fellow, 1986
Founder and Director of the international Graduate Summer School of Literature and Literary Theory (2000-2006)
Founder and Director of the BA program Literature, Culture, and Digital Media Program at Blekinge Institute of Technology (2002-2004)
Have supervised over 20 Ph.D. dissertations
Have extensive international experience evaluationg research projects
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Social and behavioural sciences, Social anthropology, ethnology, sociology
Languages, Neuro-linguistics
Arts, Journalism and information, Musicology, Empirical Musicology
Social and behavioural sciences, Neurocognitive psychology