Johan Fornäs#
| Membership Number: | 3975 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.johanfornas.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/CV.pdf |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Professor of Media and Communication Studies, School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University, Sweden
- 2003 - 2009 Professor of Mediated Culture, Dept of Culture Studies, Linköping University, Sweden
- 2002 - 2012 Director of the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS), a national research centre based at Linköping University, Sweden
- 2000 - 2003 Professor at the National Institute for Working Life programme for Work and Culture in Norrköping, Sweden
- 1999 - 2000 Professor of Media and Communication Studies, Dept of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMK), Stockholm University
- 1997 - 1998 Acting Professor of Media and Communication Studies, JMK, Stockholm University
- 1996 - 1997 Acting Professor, Dept of Communication Studies (Tema K), Linköping University
- 1992 - 1999 Associate Professor, Dept of Media and Communication Studies at JMK, Stockholm University.
- 1986 - 1992 Youth culture researcher of the research council for the humanities and social sciences (HSFR), based at Stockholm University
- 1979 - 1985 PhD Candidate, Dept of Musicology, Göteborg University
Fields of Scholarship
- Cultural theory
- Cultural studies
- Cultural dimensions of mediatization
- Cultural mediation
- Intermedial interplays between cultural genres and media forms
- Intersectional interplays between identity dimensions
- Popular music
- European identities, symbols and narratives
Honours and Awards
- The 2005 Hilding Rosenberg award for Swedish musicology of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien), for “brilliant research on music as a polysemic phenomenon within and between people”
- 1985 Kurt Aspelin’s memorial fund award
- 2012, 2005, 1996 Lars Salvius Fund grants
