Forbidden Literature

Erik Erlanson, PhD, researcher and Senior Lecturer at the Department for Film and Literature, Linnaeus University. In his thesis, he investigated the arts of existence developed by a number of 20th century American, French and Scandinavian poets. Presently he is working with a project investigating the function of literature in the Swedish welfare state apparatus and on the relationship between economics, technology, and aesthetics. He is also editor of the Swedish journal Subaltern and translator of works by, among others, Pierre Klossowski, Max Loreau, and Luce Irigaray.

Jon Helgason, PhD and Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Lecturer in Icelandic at Linnaeus University. His most recent works include two co-authored monographs (2015, 2017) on literary value and value regimes in the contemporary literary and cultural sphere in Sweden, as well as two co-edited research anthologies on bestseller phenomena (2014) and performativity and performance theory (2016), respectively. Helgason is former chairman of the Swedish Art Council’s Literature Committee (2016–2019).

Peter Henning, PhD and Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Umeå University. His thesis (2015) dealt with memory and writing in 19th century Sweden. As a postdoc, he has studied the tension between materiality and aesthetics in the reception of European Romanticism and John Keats. Currently, he studies the function of art and literature in the Swedish welfare state.

Linnéa Lindsköld, PhD and Senior Lecturer in Library and Information Science at the University of Borås has conducted several discourse oriented studies of cultural and literature policy focusing on the key concepts quality and diversity, as well as radical right cultural policy. She is currently working on two research projects financed by the Swedish Research Council: The making of the reading citizen. Public debate and policy 1945-2017 and The Welfare Regime of Literature. The Function of Literature in Sweden 1937–1976. Lindsköld is part of the editorial board for the Nordic journal on cultural policy and a member of the scientific committee for the Nordic conference on cultural policy research.