Narratives Crossing Borders

Herbert Jonsson received his PhD in Japanology from Stockholm University in 2006. At present, he is associate professor of Japanese at Dalarna University, Sweden, where he has taught Japanese language and literature since 2007. His main field of research has been Japanese haikai poetry and the theory of verse linking in the 17th and 18th centuries. He has published articles on the poetics of classical haikai and a monograph on the linked poetry of Yosa Buson. More recently, he has been working on a research project about the poetics of sketching in modern and contemporary Japanese haiku by female poets. 

Lovisa Berg is a senior lecturer of Arabic at Dalarna University and the head of the Arabic department. She has a PhD in Arabic and Islamic studies from Edinburgh University (2017) where she wrote on the topic of masculinity formulation in the fiction of Syrian female writers during the 20th century. Her main research topics are modern Syrian literature, Syrian drama series and gender studies. She teaches Arabic literature and language on both undergraduate and graduate level. 

Chatarina Edfeldt is a senior lecturer of Portuguese and a member of the Literature, Identity and Transculturality research group at Dalarna University. She is a member of research program “Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literature” (Sweden) and of the research group “Intersexualities” at ILCML (Institute of Comparative Literature) at the University of Porto. Her research focuses on Portuguese-speaking literature and culture, and World literature from a Feminist, Gender and Post-colonial perspective. She has published books and articles on the topics of gender issues, literary historiography and Portuguese-speaking women writers. Her most recent book is a co-edited volume Transcultural Identity Constructions in a Changing World (Peter Lang 2016).

Bo G Jansson (born 1949) is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Dalarna University. In 1990, he defended his doctoral thesis at Uppsala University. Between the years of 1992 and 1996, he was employed as Senior Lecturer of Swedish and Researcher in Comparative Literature at the Institute of Scandinavian Languages and Literature at Aarhus University while also teaching periodically at the Department of Literature, Uppsala University. He became associate professor in Comparative Literature at Dalarna University in 2005 and in 2010 Professor. His research focuses mainly on issues of narrative theory as well as on the relationship between modern print culture and post-modern internet-culture.