Prof. Danuta Fjellestad

• 1977 – 1981
  Junior Lecturer, University of Gda'sk (Poland)
  
  

• 1983 – 1984
  Ph. D. studies at the Department of English, University of Kansas-Lawrence
  
  

• 1983 – 1986
  Ph.D. studies at the Department of English, Stockholm university
  
  

• 1989
  The School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College
  
  

• 1986 – 1990
  Assistant Professor, Stockholm and Uppsala Universities
  
  

• 1990 – 1995
  Research Fellow, Uppsala University
  
  

• 1995 – 1998
  Associate Professor, University of Gothenburg
  
  

• 1998 – 2007
  Full Professor, Blekinge Institute of Technology
  
  

• since 2007
  Full Professor of American Literature, Uppsala University
  
  

• "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.

Projects in progress:

• 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

Visiting Appointments:

• 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

Additional interests

• 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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