Katrin AhlgrenSenior lecturer, Associate professor

About me

PhD, Narrative identity and living metaphors in a second language perspective 

Research projects

Language and life-course (2024-2027)

Financed by the Swedish Research Council (PI Bo Malmberg)

RJ Sabbatical (2022-2023)

Financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond

Bernadotte Scolarship (2021-2022) 

Awarded by the Swedish Academy

Critical linguistic awareness and speakers’ agency: action-research for sociolinguistic equality (2020-2024)

• MIRCo Research Center: Multilingualism, Social Identities, Intercultural Relations and Communication
• Universidad Autónoma Madrid, Department of Linguistics, Modern Languages and Philosophy

Financed by Ministrio de Ciencia, innovación y universidades, Spain (PI Luisa Martín Rojo)

International postdoc: Narratives of language use in multilingual Sweden (2017-2021)

• Stockholm University, Department of Language Education
• Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Faculty of Art and Humanities
• Universidad Autónoma Madrid, Department of Linguistics, Modern Languages and Philosophy

Financed by the Swedish Research Council

Research interest

Multilingualism, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, linguistic ethnography, arts-based research, narrative analysis, metaphor theories, language ideologies, education, language testing, translation, literature and theatre