Sofia Ahlberg

Short presentation

I grew up and lived in the Southern Hemisphere which helps me to bring a global perspective to my research interests in the humanities, ecofiction & climate, as well as the intersections between pedagogy and literature. I'm convinced that literary studies has an urgent role to play in the design of alternative social frameworks. For this reason, I'm committed to classroom practices that can respond to a rapidly changing world.

Keywords

• climate change
• ecofiction
• pedagogy

Biography

My new book Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy is coming out with Bloomsbury later summer 2024:

A recent book of mine, Teaching Literature in Times of Crisis (Routledge 2021), demonstrates how and why to teach relevant literary texts within the context of crisis.

Apart from that, it's also an honour and a privilege to be the Vice Dean at the Faculty of Languages together with my colleagues David Håkansson and Ingela Nilsson. My area of responsibility is education and collaboration.

I co-edit, together with Thomas Oliver Beebee, the Bloomsbury series Literatures as World Literature.

Research

My first book Atlantic Afterlives in Contemporary Fiction: The Oceanic Imaginary since the Information Age was published with Palgrave Macmillan (2016).

Since then, I have published numerous chapters in a range of edited collections on the topic of climate, the environment and literature pedagogy. My articles have been published in journals such as The Comparatist, Journal of Modern Literature, Comparative Literature, Studies in the Humanities, among others. My research in pedagogy has been published with MLA Teaching Publications and with the English Subject Centre in the UK, as well as in stand-alone monographs.

I have also enjoyed writing for a non-professional audience in The Conversation, as in here: