Att göra klass

Åsa Arping (b. 1968), PhD (Docent) and Professor in Comparative literature. Her doctorial thesis came in 2002: Den anspråksfulla blygsamheten: Auktoritet och genus i 1830-talets svenska romandebatt [Pretentious modesty. Authority and gender in the Swedish debate on the novel in the 1830s]. Her latest book is ”Hvad gör väl namnet?”. Anonymitet och varumärkesbyggande i svensk litteraturkritik 1820–1850” (2013)[”What’s in a name?”. Anonymity and Branding in Swedish literary criticism 1820–1850].

Editorial assignments

• 1997–1998: member of the editorial committee for Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap (Journal for Comparative Literature).
• 2000–2002: member of the editorial committee for Ord & Bild.
• 2002–2005: Editor of Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift (Journal for Women’s Studies), and until 2006 member of the editorial board.
• 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.
• 2008–2010: Member of the editorial committee for the series Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Litteratursällskapet (Works edited by the Swedish Literary Society)
• 2010–2011: Editor of the department’s writing series
• 2014– : Member of the editorial board for Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap (Journal for Comparative Literature)
• 2016–: Editor in Chief of Kriterium