Stefan Helgesson#
| Membership Number: | 4813 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Present and Previous Positions
- March 2011 onwards Professor of English literary studies (“professor i engelska med litteraturvetenskaplig inriktning”), Department of English, Stockholm University
- 1 January 2010 - 28 February 2011 Associate professor of English, Department of English, Stockholm University
- 1 February 2009 - 31 December 2009 75% employment as Director of SALT (Forum for Advanced Studies in Arts, Languages and Theology) at Uppsala University 50% from 1 July 2009
- 1 January 2007-December 2009. Employment as research fellow (with various percentages) at the Department of Literature, Uppsala University
- July 2003 - June 2005. Post-doc at the Universtiy of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg
- 2000 - 2003 Temporary research positions at Uppsala University
- 1991 - 1999 PhD student at the Department of Literature, Uppsala University. The last four years with funding
Fields of Scholarship
- South African literature
- Brazilian literature
- Postcolonial theory
- African literature
- Translation theory
- Book history
- World literature theory
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Major grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. This was the largest single grant ever to a project in the humanities in Sweden.
