Anna Williams - Uppsala University

Anna Williams

Professor emeritus at Department of Literature and Rhetoric; Affiliated staff

Telephone:
+46 18 471 29 61
E-mail:
Anna.Williams@littvet.uu.se
Visiting address:
Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 P
Postal address:
Box 632
751 26 UPPSALA
Available:
mottagn. e.ö.

Download contact information

Biography

Presentation

Anna Williams is Professor em. at the Department of Literature and Rhetoric since 2004. Her research interests comprise Swedish literature of the 1920s and 1930s, working class literature, literature and gender, and biography. Among writers studied are Agnes von Krusenstjerna, Ivar Lo-Johansson, Moa Martinson and Vilhelm Moberg. Her teaching interests are literature and modernity, sociology of literature, women writers and working class literature. She was Professor II at the Institute for linguistic, literary and aesthetic studies at University of Bergen, Norway, 2008–2011; post-doctoral fellow at University of Gothenburg, 1998–2000; postdoctoral scholarship at University of California, Berkeley, 1997/98. Vice chair of Vilhelm Moberg-Sällskapet 2005–2017. Member of Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur. Member of Samfundet De Nio since 2015.

Collaboration

  • Member of the network for Scandinavian working class literature.
  • Research on Motherhood within the network EU TWINNING MotherNet.

Work in Progress

  • Swedish folk literature of the interwar period (book)
  • Immigrant Letters as Working Class Literature (article)
  • The generation theme in contemporary Swedish literature by women writers (article)

Publications

Recent publications

All publications

Articles in journal

Books

Chapters in book

Collections (editor)

Conference papers

Monograph doctoral thesis

Other

FOLLOW UPPSALA UNIVERSITY ON

Uppsala University on Facebook
Uppsala University on Instagram
Uppsala University on Youtube
Uppsala University on Linkedin