Teaching American Studies in the Nordic Countries: An Introduction

Authors

  • Jenny Bonnevier Örebro University
  • Adam Hjorthén Uppsala University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22439/asca.v56i2.7369

Author Biographies

Jenny Bonnevier, Örebro University

Jenny Bonnevier is Associate Professor of English at Örebro University. Her research focuses contemporary American popular culture, in particular speculative fiction, and feminist and critical posthumanist theory. She is the co-editor of Kinship in the Fiction of N.K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance (2023). She served as the President of the Swedish Association for American Studies 2012-2016 and 2020-2024.

Adam Hjorthén, Uppsala University

Adam Hjorthén is Associate Professor of History and Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the Swedish Institute for North American Studies, Uppsala University. He specializes in studies of U.S. cultural memory and Swedish-American relations, and is author of Cross-Border Commemorations: Celebrating Swedish Settlement in America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2018), and co-editor of Swedish-American Borderlands: New Histories of Transatlantic Relations (University of Minnesota Press, 2021).

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Published

2024-12-12

How to Cite

Bonnevier, J., & Hjorthén, A. (2024). Teaching American Studies in the Nordic Countries: An Introduction. American Studies in Scandinavia, 56(2). https://doi.org/10.22439/asca.v56i2.7369