Jerry Määttä Senior lecturer
Contact
Name and title: Jerry MäättäSenior lecturer
Workplace: Department of History Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room D960Universitetsvägen 10 D, plan 8 och 9
Postal address Historiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
Associate Professor (Docent) in Literature (Uppsala University), lecturer in History and Cultural Studies, course manager for Publishing Studies. Defended my Ph.D. thesis at Uppsala University in 2006.
I teach mainly on modules in Publishing Studies and Cultural Studies.
Research interests:
Sociology of literature, cultural studies, the contemporary book market, book history, literary criticism, literary awards and prizes, popular fiction, science fiction, dystopias, and fanzines/fan cultures
Current research projects:
Utopia Unsettled: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Swedish Dystopian Fiction (funded by the Swedish Research Council)
Swedish Science Fiction Fanzines, ca 1970–1990. Bibliography, Functions and Forms of Expression (funded by the Ridderstad Foundation)