Åsa Arping
Professor
Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and ReligionAbout Åsa Arping
Dean, Faculty of Humanities. Professor (PhD, Docent) in Comparative Literature.
I have held courses in Comparative literature since 1999, in teacher eduation, literature and gender, in cultural studies (Children and youth culture and criticism) and journalism (essay writing). In recent years I have been involved in several interdisciplinary second and third cycle courses at the department and the faculty, concerning literary criticism and literary theory. I am also tutoring exam essays and supervisor of three post graduates.
As Associate Head of Department for Education (2011–2016) at the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, I was responsible for strategic educational planning and quality work. During 2019–2022, I represented the teachers at the University Board. I have had several assignments outside the university, for example as member of a working group distributing grants for translated literature in the Swedish Arts Council (2000–2003), and as member of the August Prize jury (The Swedish Publisher’s Association, 2008–2010).
In 2002–2005 I was editor of Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift [Journal for Women’s Studies]. 2017–2022 I was Editor in Chief of .
Research interests
- Literature in relation to gender, class and intersectionality
- Literary criticism (reviewing) and essay writing
- Literary history writing and canon formation
- Critical editing
- Swedish and British 19th century fiction
Projects with external funding
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Translation, Reception, Transformation (Helge Ax:son Johnson’s Foundation, Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhället in Gothenburg, Wilhelm and Martina Lundgren’s Vetenskapsfond, and Åke Wiberg’s Foundation.
- Doing Class: Intersectional Encounters in Swedish Contemporary Fiction (2000–2020) Riksbankens jubileumsfond). The project included a research stay at SDU, Odense, in the “”-Dz.
- Writing Gothenburg on the Map (in collaboration with Docent Olle Widhe and PhD Kristina Hermansson, GPS400). Anna Ahrenberg Foundation
- , project 2014–2017 in collaboration with Professor Yvonne Leffler, PhD Jenny Bergenmar, Docent Gunilla Hermansson och PhD Birgitta Johansson Lindh. Swedish Research Council
Editorial assignments
- 2020–: Editorial Board Samlaren
- 2019–2020 –: Member of the review panel “Aesthetic disciplines” at the Swedish Research Council
- 2017–: Editor in Chief of Kriterium
- 2014–: Advisory Board Nordistica Tartuensia (NT)
- 2013–: Editorial Board Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap
- 2010–2011: Editor of the department’s writing series
- 2008–2010: Member of the editorial committee for the series Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Litteratursällskapet (Works edited by the Swedish Literary Society)
- 2006–2009: Editor of Litteraturens historia i Sverige (The History of Literature in Sweden), together with Prof. Anna Williams (Uppsala), FD Annika Olsson (Stockholm) and Maria Sjödin, publisher at Norstedts
- 2002–2005: Editor of Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift (Journal for Women’s Studies), and until 2006 member of the editorial board
- 2000–2002: member of the editorial committee for Ord & Bild
- 1997–1998: member of the editorial committee for Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap (Journal for Comparative Literature)
Selected publications
Monographs
2022: Att göra klass: Nedslag i svensk samtidsprosa [Doing Class: Encounters in Swedish Contemporary Fiction], Stockholm/Göteborg: Makadam och Kriterium (277 p)
2013: ”Hvad gör väl namnet?”: Anonymitet och varumärkesbyggande i svensk litteraturkritik 1820–50 [What’s in a Name: Anonymity and Branding in Swedish Literary Criticism 1820–50], Stockholm/Göteborg: Makadam (350 p)
2002: Den anspråksfulla blygsamheten: Auktoritet och genus i 1830-talets svenska romandebatt [diss.] [Pretentious Modesty: Authority and Gender in the 1830s debate on the Novel in Sweden], Eslöv: Symposion (304 p)
Edited volumes
2019: Swedish Women’s Writing on Export: Tracing Transnational Reception in the Ninetenth Century, ed. Yvonne Leffler, Åsa Arping, Jenny Bergenmar, Gunilla Hermanson & Birgitta Johansson Lindh, Göteborg: lir.skrifter 10 (372 p)
2016: Fredrika Bremer, Hertha, eller En själs historia, eds. Åsa Arping & Gunnel Furuland, Stockholm: Svenska Vitterhetssamfundet (364 p). New edition in 2020
2016: ”inte kan jag berätta allas historia?”. Föreställningar om nordisk arbetarlitteratur, eds. Beata Agrell, Åsa Arping, Christer Ekholm & Magnus Gustafson, Göteborg: lir.skrifter (254 p)
2016: Humanister i fält. Metoder och möjligheter, eds. Åsa Arping, Christer Ekholm & Katarina Leppänen, Göteborg: lir.skrifter.varia (176 p)
2014: En dag i Dublin. Om James Joyces Ulysses, eds. Åsa Arping & Mats Jansson, Göteborg: LIR.Skrifter.Varia (239 p)
2013: Litteraturens historia i Sverige, sjätte upplagan, eds. Olsson, Algulin et al, Lund: Studentlitteratur (640 p)
2010: Genusvetenskapliga litteraturanalyser, eds. Åsa Arping och Anna Nordenstam, Lund: Studentlitteratur (259 p)
2009: Litteraturens historia i Sverige, red. Olsson, Algulin et al, Stockholm: Norstedts (640 p)
2008: Kritikens dimensioner. En festskrift till Tomas Forser, eds. Åsa Arping och Mats Jansson, Stockholm/Stehag: Symposion (520 p)
2008: Moderniteter. En vänbok till Ingrid Holmquist, eds. Åsa Arping, Anna Nordenstam och Kajsa Widegren, Göteborg: Makadam (342 p)
2005: Feministiska litteraturanalyser 1972–2002, eds. Åsa Arping och Anna Nordenstam, Lund: Studentlitteratur (472 p)
2001: Mig törstar! Studier i Fredrika Bremers spår, eds. Åsa Arping & Birgitta Ahlmo-Nilsson, Hedemora: Gidlunds förlag (295 p)
2001: Ung och stolt. Antologi, eds. Åsa Arping, Anna Nordenstam och Anna Williams, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell (208 p)
2000: Fredrika Bremer, Famillen H***, ed. Åsa Arping, Stockholm: Svenska Vitterhetssamfundet (242 p). New edition in 2019