Magnus Ullén Professor

Publications

a. Monographs

Bara för dig: pornografi, konsumtion, berättande. Stockholm: Vertigo, 2009.

The Half-Vanished Structure: Hawthorne’s Allegorical Dialectics. Peter Lang: Bern, 2004.

b. Edited volumes

”Någonstädes mellan sol och söder, mellan nord och natt.” Festskrift till Torsten Pettersson. Stockholm: Gidlunds, 2015. Red. Jenny Björklund, Ann-Sofie Lönngren, Mattias Pirholt, Magnus Ullén & Maria Wennström Wohrne.

Våldsamma fantasier. Studier i fiktionsvåldets funktion och attraktion. Kulturvetenskapliga skriftserien 2, Karlstads Universitet, 2014.

The Later Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. Special Inssue. 35:2 (2009). 1–132. With David Greven. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40196822)

c. Articles

“The Feminist Origins of ‘Political Correctness’: PC terms in JSTOR.” Feminist Theory. (2024) Online 15 May: (https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001241248)

“The Ugly Smell of Nortoniensis: Charles Eliot Norton and Hawthorne’s Civil War Romance.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. 67.1 (2021): 591–636. (10.1353/esq.2021.0001)

“Political Correctness in Sweden: A Borderland Conceptual History.” Swedish-American Borderlands: New Histories of Transatlantic Relations. Eds. Dag Blanck & Adam Hjortén. University of Minnesota Press. 2021. 277–292. (https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctv1v3gr1q.18)

“The Art of Judgment: Postcritique and the Particular Case.” Nordic Journal of English Studies 19.4 (2020): 195–217. (https://doi.org/10.35360/njes.608)

“Unfinished Work: Lincoln, Hawthorne, and the Situation of Literature,” College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies 46.4 (2019): 860–887. (https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2019.0040)

“Fascisten som anti-fascist: Teratologen, kritiken och litteraturen som vara,” Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 2–3 (2019): 68–77. (https://doi.org/10.54797/tfl.v49i2-3.6634)

“‘The Elevation of Sensitivity Over Truth’: Political Correctness and Related Phrases in the Time Magazine Corpus.” Applied Linguistics 40.2 (2019): 265–287. With Solveig Granath. (https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amx019)

“Hawthorne’s Unfinished Romances.” Nathaniel Hawthorne in Context. Ed. Monika Elbert. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 2018. 252–261. (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316271537.025)

“The Problem of Modernity: Hawthorne Criticism, Faith, and the Literary Situation.” Orbis Litterarum 72.4 (2017): 265–293. (https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12135)

“Reading Literature Rhetorically in Education: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Prison-Door’ as an Exercise in Close Reading.” Nordic Journal of English Studies 15.2 (2016):142–158. (10.35360/NJES.367)

“‘A Tangled Web of Mindfuck’: Andrea Dworkin and the Truth of Pornography.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 35.1 (2016): 145–171. (10.1353/tsw.2016.0014)

“The Situation of the Text: Erotic and Pornographic in Barthes’s Camera Lucida.” Critical Quarterly 57.2 (2015): 72–89. (https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12195)

“Kristusprincipen. Om litteraturtolkning och trons retorik.” Samlaren 135 (2014): 129–162. (https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:795205/FULLTEXT01.pdf)

“Utøya 2083: Terror, Performatives, and the Rhetorical Situation.” Narratives of Risk: Interdisciplinary Studies. Eds. Karen Patrick Knutsen, Sigmund Kvam, Peter Langemeyer, Anastasia Parianou, and Kåre Solfjeld. Münster: Waxmann, 2013. 339–363.

“The Solipsism of Pornography: Speech Act Theory and the Anti-Porn Position.” Sexuality and Culture17.2 (2013): 321–347. (10.1007/s12119-012-9154-1)

“The Excess of Porn: Response to Julian Hanich.” Jump Cut 53 (2011). (http://ejumpcut.org/archive/jc53.2011/Ullen/index.html)

“Late Hawthorne: A Polemical Introduction.” The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 35:2 (2009). 1–25. With David Greven. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/44695488)

“Politikern som politikerföraktare: Thomas Bodströms Rymmaren och den retoriska situationen.” Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 2 (2009): 5–19. (https://doi.org/10.54797/tfl.v39i2.12157)

“Pornography and its Critical Reception: Toward a Theory of Masturbation.” Jump Cut 51 (2009). (http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc51.2009/UllenPorn/)

“Masturbation as a Mode of Reading: Towards a Conception of the Orphaned Texts of Postmodernity.” Carriages and Computers: Aesthetic Technologies in Literature from the 18th to the 21st Century. Eds. Yngve Sandhei Jacobsen och Gunnar Foss. Oslo: Tapir, 2009. 97–109.

“The Manuscript of Septimius: Revisiting the Site of Hawthorne’s ‘Failure’.” Studies in the Novel 40:3 (2008): 239–267. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/29533873)

“Modernism och utopi: Fredric Jameson, Peter Luthersson och litteraturens värde.” Samlaren 128 (2007): 233–264. (https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:39819/FULLTEXT01.pdf)

“Reading with the Eye of Faith: The Structural Principle of Hawthorne’s Romances.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 48:1 (2006): 1–36. (10.1353/tsl.2006.0004)

“Dream-Cum-Truth: Postmodern Narrativity and Hardcore Porn.” Literature and Visual Culture. Ed. Dagný Kristjánsdóttir. Reykjavik: University of Inceland Press, 2005. 394–408.

“En ironisk historia: Paul de Man och historiebegreppet.” Samlaren 125 (2004): 204–36. (https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:39817/FULLTEXT01.pdf)

“Den obegripliga maskinen: Paul de Man och textens temporalitet.” Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 1 (2004): 109–132.

“Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance.” The Explicator 59:3 (2001): 128–130. (https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940109597109)

“Dante in Paradise: The End of Allegorical Interpretation.” New Literary History 32:1 (2001): 177–199. (https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2001.0010)

d. Reviews

Anna Hultman. Litteratur vid pornografins gräns. Erotik i svensk prosa 1819–2019. Malmö: Vertigo, 2022. Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 53.2–3 (2023): 310–316. (10.54797/tfl.v53i2-3.23680)

“Psychoanalyzing Hawthorne.” David Diamond. Psychoanalytic Readings of Hawthorne’s Romances: Narratives of Unconscious Crisis and Transformation. Routledge, 2021. The Henry James Review 43.2 (2022): E-1–E-5. (https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2022.0005)

Sarah Meer. American Claimants: The Transatlantic Romance, c. 1820–1920. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 47 (2021): 171–175. (https://doi.org/10.5325/nathhawtrevi.47.1.0171)

Ulf Olsson. Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 1-2 (2018): 71–74. (https://doi.org/10.54797/tfl.v48i1-2.7588)

Erik van Ooijen. Dödsporr. Etik, estetik, våld. Stockholm. Faethon, 2016. Samlaren 138 (2017). 264–69. (https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1187269/FULLTEXT01.pdf)

Jeanne Cortiel. With a Barbarous Din: Race and Ethnic Encounter in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. American Studies in Scandinavia. 49.2 (2017): 115–18. (https://doi.org/10.22439/asca.v49i2.5680)

Roger Edholm. The Written and the Unwritten World of Philip Roth: Fiction, Nonfiction and Borderline Aesthetics in the Roth Books. Örebro Studies in Literary History and Criticism 12. Örebro 2012. Samlaren 135 (2014): 285–294. (https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:766013/FULLTEXT01.pdf)

Michael Boyden. Predicting the Past: The Paradoxes of American Literary History. Leuven: Leuven UP, 2009. American Studies in Scandinavia 43.2 (2012): 123–126. (https://doi.org/10.22439/asca.v43i2.4381)

Anders Johansson. Nonfiction. Göteborg. Glänta 2008. Samlaren 129 (2008): 495–500. (http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:352476/FULLTEXT01.pdf)