Julie Hansen
Professor at Department of Modern Languages; Slavic Languages
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 13 27
- E-mail:
- julie.hansen@moderna.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 L
- Postal address:
- Box 636
751 26 UPPSALA
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- E-mail:
- julie.hansen@moderna.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Thunbergsvägen 7A
- Postal address:
- Box 533
751 21 UPPSALA
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Associate Professor of Slavic Languages, specializing in Slavic literatures and comparative literature, at the Department of Modern Languages
Keywords
- translation studies
- slavic literature
- comparative literature
- mulitligual literature
Biography
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages at the Department of Modern Languages, Uppsala University. I am a literature specialist with a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2000). My current research interests include multilingual literary studies, translation studies and memory studies. I teach courses and supervise degree theses and dissertations in Russian literature and cultural history.
Research
I specialize in 20th- and 21st-century literature and work in the fields of Slavic literatures and comparative literature. My current research interests include cultural memory studies, translingual literatures and translation studies.

Publications
Selection of publications
Part of MLN, p. 881-899, 2013
Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature
Rodopi, 2013
Introduction: Conceptualizing Transculturality in Literature
Part of Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature, Rodopi, 2013
Space, Time and Plane Travel in Walter Kirn’s Novel Up in the Air
Part of Nordic Journal of English Studies, p. 18-35, 2012
Part of Modern language review, p. 540-558, 2012
Out of Russia: Fictions of a New Translingual Diaspora
Part of Slavic and East European Journal, p. 297-298, 2012
Review of Alfred Thomas, Prague Palimpsest; Writing, Memory and the City
Part of Slavic and East European Journal, p. 650-651, 2012
Konsten skulle levas fullt ut och det egna livet skulle bli till konst
Part of Respons : recensionstidskrift för humaniora & samhällsvetenskap, p. 54-55, 2012
Part of The Literary Encyclopedia, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2012
Memory Unleashed by Perestroika: Olga Grushin's The Dream Life of Sukhanov
Part of Die Welt der Slaven, p. 161-177, 2012
Part of The literary encyclopedia, Literary Dictionary Co., 2011
Part of The Literary Encyclopedia, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2011
La terre et le ciel de Jacques Dorme
Part of The Literary Encyclopedia, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2011
Part of The Literary Encyclopedia, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2011
Part of The Literary Encyclopedia, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2011
Pamięć i narracja w dwóch powieściach Škvoreckiego
Part of Literatura na swiecie, p. 272-280, 2007
Images of Madness in Visual Art: A Russian Symbolist Iconography
Part of Words, deeds and values, p. 149-163, Lunds universitet, 2005
Memory and Narrative in Josef Škvorecký’s Novels Mirákl and Príbeh inženýra lidských duší
Part of KOSMAS: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal, p. 31-40, 2005
Pamet' a vypraveni v romanech Mirakl a Pribeh inzenyra lidskych dusi
Part of Sbornik z mezinarodni conference o zivote a dile Josefa Skvoreckeho, Literarni akademie, 2005
Part of KOSMAS: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal, p. 126-128, 2004
"A Python Can Have Up to Three Tongues": The Use of Multiple Languages in the Poetry of Ivan Blatny
Part of KOSMAS: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal, p. 44-58, 2003
Singing the Blues: Intertextuality in the Poetry of Ivan Blatny
Part of KOSMAS: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal, p. 21-36, 2002
Therapeutic Madness: The Intersection of Russian Symbolism and Science in the Work of Andrei Belyi
Part of Slavica Lundensia, p. 97-112, 2001
Recent publications
A tale of two professions in the Swedish campus novel VÃ¥rd, skola och omsorg
Part of WORLD LITERATURE STUDIES, 2025
Critical Storytelling: Experiences of Power Abuse in Academia
Brill Academic Publishers, 2022
Part of Slavic and East European Journal, p. 2-7, 2022
Introduction to special issue: Early Soviet Translation of English Literature
Part of SEEJ Slavic & East European Journal, p. 2-7, 2022
Early Soviet Translation of English Literature
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), 2022
All publications
Articles in journal
A tale of two professions in the Swedish campus novel VÃ¥rd, skola och omsorg
Part of WORLD LITERATURE STUDIES, 2025
Part of Slavic and East European Journal, p. 2-7, 2022
Introduction to special issue: Early Soviet Translation of English Literature
Part of SEEJ Slavic & East European Journal, p. 2-7, 2022
Striden om Gogols själ har ingen vinnare: Under strecket
Part of Svenska Dagbladet, 2022
Part of Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning, p. 211-223, 2020
- DOI for En flerspråkig värld på svenska: Språkliga diskrepanser i Zinaida Lindéns roman För många länder sedan
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Transcending the Vernacular in Fictional Portraits of Translators
Part of Interventions, p. 400-415, 2020
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Reading War and Peace as a Translingual Novel
Part of Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, p. 608-621, 2019
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Transplanting Pushkin: A Symposium on Reading, Translating and Adapting Eugene Onegin
Part of Slovo, p. 97, 2018
Introduction: Translingualism and transculturality in Russian contexts of translation
Part of Translation Studies, p. 113-121, 2018
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Part of Translation and Interpreting Studies, p. 100-117, 2016
Part of The Humanities and Social Studies in the Far East, p. 58-69, 2016
Introduction: Special issue "Russian Contexts of Literary Translation"
Part of Translation and Interpreting Studies, p. 1-3, 2016
'Botanical Confusion' and the Strangeness of Language in Two Works by Olga Grushin
Part of Variations : Literaturzeitschrift der Universität Zürich, p. 66-77, 2014
Part of MLN, p. 881-899, 2013
Space, Time and Plane Travel in Walter Kirn's Novel Up in the Air
Part of Nordic Journal of English Studies, p. 18-35, 2012
Space, Time and Plane Travel in Walter Kirn’s Novel Up in the Air
Part of Nordic Journal of English Studies, p. 18-35, 2012
Part of Modern language review, p. 540-558, 2012
Part of Canadian Slavonic Papers, p. 341-356, 2012
Memory Unleashed by Perestroika: Olga Grushin's The Dream Life of Sukhanov
Part of Die Welt der Slaven, p. 161-177, 2012
Pamięć i narracja w dwóch powieściach Škvoreckiego
Part of Literatura na swiecie, p. 272-280, 2007
Memory and Narrative in Josef Škvorecký’s Novels Mirákl and Príbeh inženýra lidských duší
Part of KOSMAS: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal, p. 31-40, 2005
"A Python Can Have Up to Three Tongues": The Use of Multiple Languages in the Poetry of Ivan Blatny
Part of KOSMAS: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal, p. 44-58, 2003
Singing the Blues: Intertextuality in the Poetry of Ivan Blatny
Part of KOSMAS: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal, p. 21-36, 2002
Therapeutic Madness: The Intersection of Russian Symbolism and Science in the Work of Andrei Belyi
Part of Slavica Lundensia, p. 97-112, 2001
Chapters in book
Nordic Literary Translingualism
Part of The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism, p. 165-176, Routledge, 2021
Part of Living through Literature, p. 11-20, Uppsala University, 2019
Strangers Shipwrecked in a Strange Language: Mademoiselle O and Pnin
Part of Slavica antiqua et hodierna, Stockholm University Press, 2019
The Pleasure of Translingual Punning: Homage to Nabokov in Olga Grushin’s The Dream Life of Sukhanov
Part of Living through Literature, p. 217-239, Uppsala University, 2019
Theories of Memory and the Imaginative Force of Fiction
Part of The Ashgate research companion to memory studies, p. 197-208, Ashgate, 2015
Faktion och metafiktion om stalintiden i Alexander Terechovs postsovjetiska roman Stenbron
Part of En profil i profilen: Vänbok till Bo G Jansson, Högskolan Dalarna, 2015
History, silence and the detective in Alexandr Terekhov's Russian novel Kamennyi most
Part of Beyond memory, p. 53-64, Routledge, 2015
Introduction: Conceptualizing Transculturality in Literature
Part of Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature, Rodopi, 2013
Part of The Literary Encyclopedia, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2012
Part of The literary encyclopedia, Literary Dictionary Co., 2011
Part of The Literary Encyclopedia, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2011
La terre et le ciel de Jacques Dorme
Part of The Literary Encyclopedia, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2011
Part of The Literary Encyclopedia, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2011
Part of The Literary Encyclopedia, The Literary Dictionary Company, 2011
Images of Madness in Visual Art: A Russian Symbolist Iconography
Part of Words, deeds and values, p. 149-163, Lunds universitet, 2005
Pamet' a vypraveni v romanech Mirakl a Pribeh inzenyra lidskych dusi
Part of Sbornik z mezinarodni conference o zivote a dile Josefa Skvoreckeho, Literarni akademie, 2005
Collections (editor)
Critical Storytelling: Experiences of Power Abuse in Academia
Brill Academic Publishers, 2022
Early Soviet Translation of English Literature
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), 2022
Living through Literature: Essays in Memory of Omry Ronen
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2019
Slovo. Journal of Slavic Languages, Literatures and Cultures, No. 60, 2019
Uppsala universitet, 2019
Slovo. Journal of Slavic Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Uppsala universitet, 2018
Taylor & Francis, 2018
Brill Academic Publishers, 2018
Slovo. Journal of Slavic Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Uppsala universitet, 2017
Slovo. Journal of Slavic Languages, Literatures and Cultures, No. 57, 2016
Uppsala University, 2016
Punishment as a Crime?: Perspectives on Prison Experience in Russian Culture
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2014
Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature
Rodopi, 2013
Conference papers
2013
Putevoditel’ po proshlomu: Literary Depictions of Soviet Childhoods by Grishkovets and Klinau
2013
“Punishment as a Crime? Prison Experience in Russian Culture.”
2013
Soviet Geography Remembered: Conceptualizations of Space in Recent Russian Literature
2013
Guidebooks to the Past: Literary Depictions of Soviet Childhoods by Grishkovets and Klinau
2013
Translingual Homage to Nabokov in Olga Grushin's The Dream Life of Sukhanov
2013
Artur Klinau’s Post-Soviet Travel Guide to Soviet Utopia
2013
Putevoditel’ po proshlomu: Literary Depictionsof Soviet Childhoods by Grishkovets and Klinau
2013
Other
Part of Scando-Slavica, p. 145-147, 2021
Aleksandr Puškin: Russlands store dikter av Erik Egeberg: Recension
Part of Nordisk Østforum, p. 95-97, 2021
Part of Memory Studies, p. 350-353, 2020
Sympatisören & Flyktingar av Viet Thanh Nguyen: Recension
Part of Signum, 2020
The Ethics of Storytelling: Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and the Possible
Part of Memory Studies, p. 350-353, 2020
Waiting at the Prison Gate: Women, Identity and the Russian Penal System
Part of Slavic Review, p. 540-542, 2018
Out of Russia: Fictions of a New Translingual Diaspora
Part of Slavic and East European Journal, p. 297-298, 2012
Review of Alfred Thomas, Prague Palimpsest; Writing, Memory and the City
Part of Slavic and East European Journal, p. 650-651, 2012
Konsten skulle levas fullt ut och det egna livet skulle bli till konst
Part of Respons : recensionstidskrift för humaniora & samhällsvetenskap, p. 54-55, 2012
Part of KOSMAS: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal, p. 126-128, 2004