Elin Lundsten
Senior Lecturer
Gender and Culture studies unitAbout Elin Lundsten
I was awarded my PhD in Womens Studies at Lancaster University, UK in 2007. My PhD thesis Speaking Subjects in the Good School: Language and Relations of Power concerns Swedish schools. It investigates what language does within an institution that is defined by its equality and diversity aims and where all individuals are formally given equal opportunities. By analysing texts, everyday practices and speech in a school, I demonstrate how language conceals relations of power. One of the central arguments concerns how the liberal ideal of dialogue and the construction of the Swedish language as "white" restrict critical interrogations of racism and injustice.
Teaching
I have taught at the Department of Cultural Av性爱s since 2008. Mainly, I have been engaged in teaching Gender Studies, at both introductory and advanced levels. I have also taught in the bachelor's programme Culture and supervised degree projects in the teacher training programme. In the international master's programme Gendering Practices, I have coordinated courses since 2014. During several years, I have also been particularly engaged in the module "Politics and feminists critique" on the introductory course in Gender Studies.