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Jesper Olsson, PhD
Department of Culture and Communication
Linköping University
SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
ph. + 46 13 281992
jesper.olsson@liu.se

Education:

2005, PhD in Comparative Literature, Stockholm University

Academic appointments and professional activities:

2011– present: LiU Research Fellow, Linköping University
2008–2011: Swedish Academy Researcher, Stockholm University
2007–2008: Post-Doc, University of California, Davis
2004–2006: Teaching assignments at Södertörn University College, Stockholm and Stockholm University
2004: University teacher at Cultural and Intermedia Studies, Lund University
2002–2003: University teacher at the Department of Scandinavian Languages, Stockholm University
1997–2002: Appointment as PhD student in Comparative Literature, Stockholm University 1991– Freelancing literary critic and cultural journalist, since 1996 for Svenska Dagbladet

Some grants and scholarships:

2010: Library Research Grant, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
2009–2010: Grant from Sven och Dagmar Saléns stiftelse for work with A Cultural History of the Noridc Avant-Garde, vol. 3
2008–2009: Grants from The Swedish Academy for arrangements of symposia
2007–2008: Post-doc year, University of California, Davis (grant: Swedish Research Council)
2006: Grants from The Rausing Foundation and Helge Ax:son Johnson for research project
2005: Award from the Swedish Academy for doctoral dissertation
1998–1999: Fellow at the Poetics Program, State University of New York, Buffalo (PhD-grant, Swedish Institute)

Some commissions of trust:

– One of the editors of vol. 3–4 of A Cultural History of the Nordic Avant-Garde (forthcoming)
– Swedish coordinator, Nordic Network of Avant-Garde Studies, 2005–2009 (network supported by Nordforsk)
– One of the founders and editors of the literary journal and small press OEI (since 1999)
– In the editorial committee of the book series Mediehistoriskt bibliotek
– Member of the board of Svenska Litteratursällskapet (Swedish Literature Society)
– Member of the research group The Matrices of Memory, based at Uppsala University
– Member of the international research network Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies
– Faculty opponent at two PhD defenses at the University of Gothenburg, June 4, 2010 and the University of Copenhagen, January 9, 2009.
– Organizer of several symposia and conferences
 

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