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Yvonne Leffler
Professor
Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and ReligionAbout Yvonne Leffler
My two main research venues have been Swedish nineteenth century novels and popular fiction respectively. I have directed several research projects and publish books on the importance of female nineteenth century writers to the evolution of the Swedish novel—e.g., Bakom maskerna. Det dolda budskapet hos kvinnliga 1880-talsförfattare (1997) and Kvinnan, kärleken och romanen (2001). In 2019 the project "Swedish Women Writers on Export in the Nineteenth Century" resulted in two books: Swedish Women's Writing on Export. Tracing Transnational Reception in the Nineteenth Century by Yvonne Leffler, Åsa Arping, Jenny Bergenmar, Gunilla Hermansson & Birgitta Johansson Lindh and The Triumph of the Swedish Nineteenth-Century Novel in Central and Eastern Europe (ed. Yvonne Leffler). This project also resulted in my monograph Swedish Ninteteenth-Century Novels as World Literature: Transnational Success and Literary History (2020).
My research into popular fiction has been largely focused on Gothic literature and film in Horror as Pleasure: the Aesthetics of Horror Fiction (2000). Recently I have specialised in today's Scandinavian gothic fiction, especially the narrative and thematic function of the Nordic landscape in today's horror films and novels, for example in Nordic Gothic (2020) and Swedish Gothic: Landscapes of Untamed Nature (2023). Within popular fiction I have also published a study on the Swedish popular writer Signe Björnberg, more commonly known as Sigge Stark, Sigge Stark. Sveriges mest produktiva, utskällda och lästa författare (2015).
Tasks
During my time as a lecturer I have been involved in the development of basic- to PhD-level courses in comparative literature, within both the teacher training and the cultural studies program. I have also developed and taught interdisciplinary courses in the areas of popular fiction, film and media. A great part of my work as a teacher has been dedicated to the supervising of students and PhD candidates in my own and other universities, both within and outside of Sweden. Within my special areas I have written the following textbooks, all of which have been published by Studentlitteratur: Skräck som fiction och underhållning (2001), Det moderna genombrottets dramer (2004) and Det moderna genombrottets prosa (2005). In 1997 I was awarded the yearly “Pedagogiska priset” by the Academy of Pedagogy at Karlstad University for being “the most instructive teacher within the educational area of Humanities and Social Science”.
Over the course of my career I have performed various managerial, investigative and analytical tasks, several of which have involved positions of trust. I was a member of Karlstad University’s Faculty Board during the years 2002-2004 and a member of the University of Gothenburg’s Faculty Board of Arts 2007-2012. At the national level I have been a permanent member of the Preparatory Working Group for Aesthetical Sciences and Arts within the Swedish Research Council and the Post doc Panel within the Research Council. I have also been an external member of the Norwegian Research Council in 2012 and the Danish Research Council in 2015. The last years, I have been engaged as an expert by several universities and Councils both in and outside Sweden.
Ongoing research
In my ongoing research I continue to study the transnational reception of Swedish nineteenth-century literature.
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Troll och människor. En ständigt nordisk
skräckhistoria.
(Högtidsföreläsning)
Yvonne Leffler
Kung. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhällets i Göteborg. Årsbok 2024, red. Gunhild Vidén - 2024 -
Inledning
Yvonne Leffler
Underjorden - myt, fakta, resurs. Red. Bo Lindberg - 2024 -
Underjorden i dagens litteratur. Dödsrike, fängelse eller
skyddsrum?
Yvonne Leffler
Underjorden - myt, fakta, resurs, red. Bo Lindberg - 2024 -
Victoria Benedictsson i världen. Spridning och reception av
författarskapet
Yvonne Leffler
Victoria Benedictsson hemma och i världen. Red. Bo Svensson. - 2024 -
Inledning
Yvonne Leffler
Zacharias Topelius, Noveller i Urval. Utgiven av Anna Movall och Jörgen Scholz med inledning av Yvonne Leffler - 2024 -
Nordic
Gothic
Yvonne Leffler
The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic / edited by Rebecca Duncan. - 2023 -
Dödsrike, fängelse eller skyddrum: Underjorden i svenskspråkig litteratur från 1800-talet till
idag.
Yvonne Leffler
Brage. Labroatorium för folk och kultur. En kulturvetenskaplig tidning. - 2023 -
Swedish Gothic. Landscapes of Untamed
Nature
Yvonne Leffler
2022 -
The Success of Swedish 19th-Century Women Writers on the French-speaking book market: Fredrika Bremer and Emilie Flygare-Carlén versus C.J.L. Almqvist and Viktor
Rydberg
Yvonne Leffler
Nordic Journal of Francophone Studies/Revue nordique des études francophones - 2022 -
Vårt behov av feelgood-berättelser och romantiska
julfilmer
Yvonne Leffler
Speglingar av feelgood. Genre, etikett eller känsla? red. Maria Nilsson och Piia K. Posti - 2022 -
Emilie
Flygare-Carlén
Yvonne Leffler
Litteraturbanken - 2022 -
Global Gothic 3: Gothic in Modern
Scandinavia
Yvonne Leffler
The Cambridge History of the Gothic. Volume 3: Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries / edited by Catherine Spooner, Dale Townshend - 2021 -
Sigge Stark - En folkkär
värmlandsskildrare
Yvonne Leffler
En värmländsk litteraturhistoria. Del II. Red. Helene Blomqvist och Dag Nordmark - 2021 -
”Bästsäljarna som
glömdes”.
Yvonne Leffler
Fokus : Sveriges nyhetsmagasin - 2021 -
”Emilie Flygare-Carlén. Sveriges första
deckardrottning”,
Yvonne Leffler
Populär historia - 2021 -
Introduction
Yvonne Leffler, Johan Högberg, Maria Holmgren Troy, Sofia Wijkmark
Nordic Gothic / Maria Holmgren Troy, Johan Höglund, Yvonne Leffler and Sofia Wijkmark. - 2020 -
Swedish Nineteenth-Century Novels as World Literature: Transnational Success and Literary
History
Yvonne Leffler
2020 -
Viktor Rydberg i världen: Skönlitteratur i
översättning
Yvonne Leffler
Efter Viktor Rydberg. Receptionshistoriska studier, red. Anders Burman & Tore Lund - 2020 -
Gender, Genre and Nation: Nineteenth-century Swedish Women Writers on
Export
Yvonne Leffler, Gunilla Hermansson
Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations / edited by Rajendra Chitnis, Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, Rhian Atkin and Zoran Milutinović. - 2020 -
The past that haunts the present: the rise of Nordic
Gothic
Yvonne Leffler, Johan Höglund
Nordic Gothic / Maria Holmgren Troy,Johan Höglund, Yvonne Leffler and Sofia Wijkmark. - 2020 -
Nordic Gothic crime: places and spaces in Johan Theorin's Öland quartet
series
Yvonne Leffler
Nordic Gothic / Maria Holmgren Troy,Johan Höglund, Yvonne Leffler and Sofia Wijkmark. - 2020 -
Swedish Women’s Writing on Export: Tracing Transnational Reception in the Nineteenth
Century
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Introduction: Swedish Women’s Writing on Export: Tracing Transnational Reception in the Nineteenth
Century
Yvonne Leffler, Åsa Arping, Jenny Bergenmar, Gunilla Hermansson, Birgitta Johansson Lindh
Swedish Women’s Writing on Export: Tracing Transnational Reception in the Nineteenth Century / Yvonne Leffler, Åsa Arping, Jenny Bergenmar, Gunilla Hermansson & Birgitta Johansson Lindh. - 2019 -
The Writing of Transcultural Literary History. Distant Reading and
Bibliography
Yvonne Leffler, Jenny Bergenmar
Travelling Ideas in the Long Nineteenth Century. On the Waves of Cultural Transfer. ed. Petra Broomans and Janke Klok - 2019 -
From Bestselling Novelist to Forgotten Woman Writer: The Transcultural Circulation of Emilie
Flygare-Carlén
Yvonne Leffler
Swedish Women's Writing on Export: Tracing Transnational Reception in the Nineteenth Century / Yvonne Leffler, Åsa Arping, Jenny Bergenmar, Gunilla Hermansson & Birgitta Johansson Lindh. - 2019 -
Transcultural Transmission: Emelie Flygare-Carlén and Marie Sophie Schwartz in Central and Eastern
Europe
Yvonne Leffler
The Triumph of the Swedish Nineteenth-Century Novel in Central and Eastern Europe, ed. Yvonne Leffler - 2019 -
"Zacharias Topelius i världen - verken i
översättning"
Yvonne Leffler
Författaren Topelius - med historien mot strömmen, eds. Pia Forssell och Carola Herberts - 2019 -
Loved by the Readers, Rebuked by the
Critics
Yvonne Leffler
Papers in Scandinavian Studies / Skandinavisztikai Füzetek - 2019 -
Svensk 1800-talslitteratur i världen. Det kvinnliga
romanundret
Yvonne Leffler
Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap - 2018 -
Prosaförfattaren Almqvist ur ett transkulturellt perspektiv. Översättningar och internationell
spridning.
Yvonne Leffler
Almqvist-variationer : receptionsstudier och omläsningar / red.: Anders Burman & Jon Viklund. - 2018 -
Gender and Bestsellers: The Swedish Novelist Emilie
Flygare-Carlén
Yvonne Leffler
Vita Traductiva. vol. 10. Gender and Translation: Understanding Agents in Transnational Reception / Isis Herrero López, Cecilia Alvstad, Johanna Akujärvi and Synnøve Skarsbø Lindtner (eds.) - 2018 -
Marie Sophie
Schwartz
Yvonne Leffler
Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon - 2018 -
Emilie
Flygare-Carlén
Yvonne Leffler
Svenskt kvinnobibliograftiskt lexikon - 2018 -
Catharina Rosaura (Rosa)
Carlén
Yvonne Leffler
Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon - 2018 -
Signe Björnberg (Sigge
Stark)
Yvonne Leffler
Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon - 2018 -
Aurora Lovisa
Ljungstedt
Yvonne Leffler
Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon - 2018 -
Mattias Fyhr, Svensk skräcklitteratur 1. Bårtäcken över jordens likrum: Från medeltid till 1850-tal, Lund: Ellerströms 2017, 350
s
Yvonne Leffler
Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap - 2017 -
The Wonderful Adventures of Swedish Everyday Life. Female Domestic Novels on Export in the Nineteenth
Century
Åsa Arping, Yvonne Leffler
The Dynamics and Contexts of Cultural Transfers, eds. Margaretha Fahlgren & Anna Williams - 2017 -
Gotiske
kvindemonstre
Yvonne Leffler
Nordisk kvindelitteraturhistorie : over alle grænser 1990-2015 / Redigeret af Anne-Marie Mai - 2017 -
Introduction
Marie Demker, Yvonne Leffler, Ola Sigurdson
LIR.journal - 2016 -
"Female Gothic
Monsters"
Yvonne Leffler
The History of Nordic Women Writers, ed. Anne Marie Mai - 2016 -
Åskådare eller medspelare? Roller och positioner i vår tids
skräckfiktion
Yvonne Leffler
Brott, kärlek, främmande världar. Texter om populärlitteratur / Dag Hedman, Jerry Määttä (red.) - 2015 -
Early Crime fiction in Nordic
Literature
Yvonne Leffler
From the sublime to City Crime / edited by Maurizio Ascari and Stephen Knight - 2015 -
Lisbeth Salander as Pippi
Longstocking
Yvonne Leffler
webpage Post45 - 2015 -
Sigge Stark. Sveriges mest produktiva, utskällda och lästa
författare
Yvonne Leffler
2015 -
Chick-lit as healing and self-help
manual?
Yvonne Leffler
Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millenium: Sweden Unparadised - 2014 -
Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium: Sweden
Unparadised
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"Introduction: How Gloomy Is Sweden at the
Millennium?"
Marie Demker, Yvonne Leffler, Ola Sigurdson
Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium: Sweden Unparadised. Edited by Marie Demker, Yvonne Leffler and Ola Sigurdson - 2014 -
"Nature is the Church of Satan." The Gothic Topography in Contemprorary Scandinavian Horror Novels and
Films
Yvonne Leffler
All that Gothic. / Agnieszka Łowczanin, Dorota Wiśniewska (eds.). - 2014 -
Scandinavian
Gothic
Yvonne Leffler
The Encyclopedia of the Gothic. William Hughes, David Punter, Andrew Smith (Eds.) - 2013 -
Lisbeth Salander as a Melodramatic Heroine: Emotional Conflicts, Split Focalization, and Changing Roles in Scandinavian Crime
Fiction
Yvonne Leffler
Rape in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy and Beyond: Contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone Crime Fiction edited by Berit Åström, Katarina Gegersdotter and Tanya Horeck - 2013 -
The Devious Landscape in Contemporary Scandinavian
Horror
Yvonne Leffler
Gothic Topographies: Language, Nation Building and 'Race' - 2013 -
Fiktiva berättelser utvecklar oss till
människor
Yvonne Leffler
Läsning. RJ:s årsbok 2013/2014 - 2013 -
Chick lit som självhjälps- och
rådgivningslitteratur
Yvonne Leffler
Chick lit - brokiga läsningar och didaktiska utmaningar. Maria Nilson & Helene Ehriander (red.) - 2013 -
Chick-fangs, Power Relations and Being
Human
Yvonne Leffler
A language Spoken in Tongues: Essays on the Transcultural Gothic - 2012 -
Vårt behov av monster och skräck. Fiktiva berättelser som rollspel och social
träning
Yvonne Leffler
Monstrologi. Frygtens manifestationer - 2012 -
Early Crime Fiction in Scandinavian
Literature
Yvonne Leffler
La questione Romantica. Nuova serie - 2012 -
Recension av Anna Höglund, Vampyrer. En kulturkritisk studie av den västerlandksa vampyrberättelsen från 1700-talet till
2000-talet.
Yvonne Leffler
Samlaren - 2011 -
Chick-Fangs, Power Relations, and Being
Human
Yvonne Leffler
The Gothic: Probing the Boundaries - 2011 -
Reading for plot, character, and
pleasure
Yvonne Leffler
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twilight: Studies in Fiction, meda, and a Contemporary Culrutral Experience - 2011 -
Dialogroman och läsdrama. Almqvists lek med den dramatiska formen i Araminta
May
Yvonne Leffler
Dramatikern Almqvist. red. A Burman, R Lysell och J Viklund - 2010 -
The Gothic Topography in Scandinavian Horror
Fiction
Yvonne Leffler
The Domination of Fear - 2010 -
Vampyrmotivet och
erotiken
Yvonne Leffler
Kulturhjälten - 2009 -
Bengt Lidner och det
fasansfulla
Yvonne Leffler
Poetens monopolium. Bengt Lidner 250 år, red. Anna Cullhed och Lysell - 2009 -
The Gothic Topography in Scanidnavian Horror
Fictione
Yvonne Leffler
There Be Dragons Out There: Contronting Fear, Horror & Terror, - 2009 -
Strindberg och skräcken. Henrik Johnsson; Strindberg och skräcken: Skräckmotiv och identitetstematik i August Strindbergs
författarskap.
Yvonne Leffler
Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap - 2009 -
Det romantiska brevjaget i svensk
litteratur
Yvonne Leffler
Ett möte. Svensk och dansk litterär romantik i ny dialog - 2008 -
Aspects of the Fantastic and the Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavian
Literature
Yvonne Leffler
Anales. Nueva Epoca - 2008 -
Ett köpmanshus i skärgården av Emilie
Flygare-Carlén
Yvonne Leffler
2007 -
"Jag har fått ett bref..." Den tidiga svenska brevromanen
17701870
Yvonne Leffler
2007 -
Brevet i 1700- och
1800-talsoperan
Yvonne Leffler
Operavärldar från Monteverdi till Gershwin - 2006 -
Det moderna genombrottets prosa : [sju
analyser]
Yvonne Leffler
2005 -
Maskspel och mångtydlighet. Berättartekniska strategier hos kvinnliga
1880-talsförfattare
Yvonne Leffler
Det moderna genombrottets prosa. Sju analyser - 2005 -
"I am coming to get you" - perspektiv på och i dagens intermediala
skräckgenre"
Yvonne Leffler
Mediekultur. Hybrider & Förvandlingar - 2004 -
Det sanna kvinnlighetens konsekvenser. Anne Charlotte Lefflers Sanna
kvinnor
Yvonne Leffler
Det moderna genombrottets dramer. Fem analyser - 2004