Publications
On this page you will find our newly published research, books and articles and our publications in Stockholm University Press. The Department of Culture and Aesthetics have three book series in Stockholm University Press. For our publications in Swedish, please switch to the Swedish webpage.
You can also search for our publications in the Stockholm University data base DiVA.
Publications in Stockholm University Press
The Department of Culture and Aesthetics has three book series within Stockholm University Press:
- Basic Readings in Culture and Aesthetics
- Critical Editions in Culture and Aesthetics
- Stockholm Studies in Culture and Aesthetics
Basic Readings in Culture and Aesthetics
Basic Readings in Culture and Aesthetics (BaRCA) (ISSN 2002-6463) is a peer-reviewed series of monographs and edited volumes published by Stockholm University Press. BaRCA provides a publishing platform for academic textbooks built on high-quality research mainly within the disciplines of Art History, Heritage Studies, Curating Art, History of Ideas, Literary Studies, Musicology, and Performance and Dance Studies. It is the ambition of BaRCA to place equally high demands on the academic quality of the manuscripts it accepts as those applied by international academic publishers of a similar orientation. BaRCA accepts manuscripts in English and Swedish.
Critical Editions in Culture and Aesthetics
Critical Editions in Culture and Aesthetics (CEiCA) (ISSN XXXX-XXXX) is a peer-reviewed series of scholarly editions of source texts published by Stockholm University Press. CEiCA aims to provide a publishing forum for translated, annotated, and introduced texts within the broad domain of culture and aesthetics, including, but not limited to, the disciplines of Art History, Heritage Studies, Curating Art, History of Ideas, Literary Studies, Musicology, and Performance and Dance Studies.
The ambition of CEiCA includes both to provide open access to manuscripts and out of print texts, and to introduce them with a contextualizing and critical apparatus. The series thus promotes the values of 1) making source texts available through digital means of access, and 2) recognizing critical editing as a scholarly achievement in its own right. English translations that make Swedish texts accessible to international scholarly communities are encouraged.
As the CEiCA publications are required to be the products of scholarly achievements, the series does not include facsimiles, reprints, or other editions without a critical apparatus that contextualizes, explains, problematizes, and evaluates the source texts through introductions, annotations, footnotes, further references, bibliography, indexing, etc.
Stockholm Studies in Culture and Aesthetics
Stockholm Studies in Culture and Aesthetics (SiCA) (ISSN 2002-3227) is a peer-reviewed series of monographs and edited volumes published by Stockholm University Press. SiCA strives to provide a broad forum for research on culture and aesthetics, including the disciplines of Art History, Heritage Studies, Curating Art, History of Ideas, Literary Studies, Musicology, and Performance and Dance Studies. In terms of subjects and methods, the orientation is wide: critical theory, cultural studies and historiography, modernism and modernity, materiality and mediality, performativity and visual culture, children’s literature and children’s theatre, queer and gender studies.
It is the ambition of SiCA to place equally high demands on the academic quality of the manuscripts it accepts as those applied by refereed international journals and academic publishers of a similar orientation. SiCA accepts manuscripts in English, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian.
Studies in Curating Art
The book series “Studies in Curating Art” has been published annually since 2014. “Studies in Curating Art” focuses on curatorial research and on the connections between curatorial theory and practice, within the frame of the International Master’s program in Curating Art at Stockholm University.
Each issue of the annual publication is self-run by the students enrolled in the Publication Elective Course within the frame of the international Master’s program in Curating Art.
It is edited around a selected theme and, since 2018, has been realized in collaboration with graphic designers and institutions for education and graphic design. Click on the headlines below to read about each of the issues that have been published by the book series.
Read more about the series here

New Books

Books that were published during 2025
Maria Trejling: Creaturely Metaphors in D.H. Lawrence, H.D., and Virginia Woolf
Books that were published during 2024
Books that were published during 2023
Books that were published during 2022
Books that were published during 2021
Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe, Nell Walden, Der Sturm, and the Collaborative Cultures of Modern Art
Magnus Tessing Schneider, The Original Portrayal of Mozart's Don Giovanni
Magnus Tessing Schneider (ed.), Felicity Baker, Don Giovanni’s Reasons: Thoughts on a masterpiece
Anna Källén, The Archaeologist In-Between: Olov Janse 1892-1985
Tanja Schult & Diana I. Popescu (ed.), Performative Holocaust Commemoration in the 21st Century
Willmar Sauter, Aesthetics of Presence: Philosophical and Practical Reconsiderations
Sonya Petersson (ed.), Digital Human Sciences: New Objects – New Approaches
Linn Holmberg & Maria Simonsen (red.), Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000
Books that were published during 2020
Books that were published during 2019
New Articles

Articles published 2025
Tanja Schult: “Demokratische Denkmäler” in Denkmalsturz und Diversität der Denkmallandschaft
Articles published 2024
Articles published 2022
Articles published 2021
Victoria Fareld, “Time”, The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory (2021)
Emma Jansson, “Reconsidering Anders Zorn’s Omnibus Paintings” in RIHA Journal, (2021)
Emma Jansson, the first issue of the new journal Materia: Journal of Technical Art History (2021)
Boel Westin, "Nostalgia", in the second edition of Keywords for children´s literature (2021)
Articles published 2020
Daria Skjoldager-Nielsen och Kim Skjoldager-Nielsen, “Para-Antropo(s)cene Aesthetics between Despair and Beauty: A Matter of Response-Ability”, in Nordic Theatre Studies Vol. 31, No. 1, 2020
Anna Dahlgren, "Rethinking the Social Photograph in the Age of Digital Interconnectivity", in Connect to collect: approaches to collecting social digital photography in museums and archives
Articles published 2019
Peter Gillgren, "Felix Horb: Notes in the margins of MaxDvořák, Hans Sedlmayr and Erwin Panofsky", in Journal of Art Historiography
Contact
If you have any questions about your publishing in DiVA, pleace contact the DiVA adiminstrator at the Department of Culture and Aestethics, Mattias Arreborn, mattias.arreborn@su.se.
Our publications in DiVA
Last updated: April 14, 2025
Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics