Stockholm university

Research group Forum Modernism

Forum Modernism at Stockholm University is an association for researchers whose work in some way concerns modernism, both through studies of its various mainstream and marginalized expressions, and through critical examinations of the concept as such.

Paul Cézanne, Les Grandes Baigneuses
Paul Cézanne, Les Grandes Baigneuses, Wikimedia Commons.

Group description

The objective is to be an interdisciplinary network for dialogue, ideas, events, and publications, while also highlighting the strong position of modernist research at Stockholm University.

Traditionally, modernism has been described as an aesthetic reaction against the social, scientific, religious, psychological, political, and economic changes of modernity. The term has been used to refer to works and practices that respond to what is perceived as a world and a time marked by disintegration and rootlessness. Historically, research typically sought to understand modernism as a specific period that culminated during the first decades of the 20th century. However, as a result of interrogations of Eurocentric perceptions of modernity, thinking of modernism as a phenomenon exclusively related to the social developments of Western Europe has become increasingly untenable.

Today, the spectrum of meanings carried by the term is both wider and vaguer, and it is continually adapted to global and transnational contexts as well as to inter-aesthetic renegotiations of the identities of different artforms. ‘Modernism’ no longer refers restrictively to the specifically Western highbrow culture that was for a long time considered its fundament, and the development of the term would seem to correspond to the internal premises of modernism, which are characterized by an exploration of the multiple, unstable, and precarious limits of the human and of art.

As the dynamic field of modernist studies expands, it becomes increasingly difficult to overlook and evaluate. In response, Forum Modernism assembles scholars from a broad range of disciplines and specializations in order to exchange knowledge and ideas and to keep each other up to date with developments within research on modernism.

Group members

Group managers

Axel Englund

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Axel Englund

Maria Trejling

PhD student

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Maria Trejling

Members

Krzysztof Bak

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Krzysztof Bak

Helena Bodin

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Helena Bodin

Toivo Burlin

Senior lecturer, associate professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Toivo Burlin 2016.

Jacob Derkert-Rosenberg

Senior lecturer

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Jacob Derkert-Rosenberg

Karolina Enquist Källgren

Senior lecturer, associate professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Karolina Enquist Källgren

Julia Fernelius

PhD student

Department of English

Santi Luca Famà

Ph.D. student

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
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Arne Florin

Senior lecturer

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
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Carin Franzén

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Carin Franzén

Ellen Frödin

Postdoc

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Ellen Frödin

Karin Grelz

Samverkansrådgivare

Office for Research, Engagement and Innovation Services
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Ingemar Haag

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Ingemar Haag framför en vägg med bokhyllor.

Hans Hayden

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Hans Hayden

Hanna Henryson

Senior lecturer

Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German
Hanna Henryson

Markus Huss

Universitetslektor, Docent

Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German
Markus Huss

Hedvig Härnsten

PhD student

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Hedvig Härnsten, doktorand i litteraturvetenskap

Anna Jörngården Galili

Senior lecturer, associate professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Anna Jörngården

Johan Klingborg

Research Officer

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Johan Klingborg

Andrea Kollnitz

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Andrea Kollnitz

Tora Lane

Universitetslektor

Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German
Tora Lane

Roland Lysell

Professor emeritus

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Roland Lysell

Caroline Merkel

Universitetslektor

Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German
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Catharina Nolin

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Catharina Nolin

Anna Näslund

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Anna Näslund

Alice Pick Duhan

Postdoctoral researcher

Department of Romance Studies and Classics
Alice Duhan

Irina Rasmussen

Associate Professor (Docent)

Department of English
Irina Rasmussen photo

Fredrik Renard

PhD, Postdoc

Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German
Fredrik renard

Sofia Roberg

Postdoc

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
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Torbjörn Måtte Schmidt

PhD student

Department of Culture and Aesthetics

Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
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Maria Wahlström

Director of studies

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Maria Wahlström.

Giles Whiteley

Professor

Department of English
Giles Whiteley

Martin Wiklund

Senior lecturer, associate professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Martin Wiklund

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