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Daniel Möller is professor of comparative literature and research leader at School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences. Möller particularly studies the literature of the early modern period (c. 1500–1800), and his interest in early modern culture and literature has resulted in a doctoral dissertation on animal epitaphs from the 17th and 18th centuries. He has also done research on Olof von Dalin’s role-playing poetry, and together with Niklas Schiöler he has edited a major anthology of Swedish poetry, "Svensk poesi" (2016).

Möller is internationally active as a researcher. Books from his pen have been issued by publishers such as Oxford University Press, Hancock House Publishers and Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. Together with Mats Malm (Gothenburg University) and Alison Sharrock (University of Manchester) Möller has edited the book "Metamorphic Readings: Transformation, Language, and Gender in the Interpretation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses" (OUP, 2020). In 2023 Möller published the monograph "Om de döda allt annat än gott: Ärekränkande, burleska och infamhumoristiska inslag i svensk gravdiktning under 1600- och 1700-talen" ('Of the dead, say anything but good: Defamatory, burlesque and wickedly humorous aspects of Swedish funerary poetry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'). In the 18th century it was common for people to insult each other in a kind of poetic tweets which were then copied and spread. This was often done in the form of poetic epitaphs, the genre that is investigated in the study.

In another research project, Möller, together with Anders Mortensen (Lund University), studies humour in Scandinavian poetry. They are editing a forthcoming volume entitled "Humor i nordisk poesi" ('Humour in Nordic Poetry', to appear in 2026), to which Möller contributes an article about Carl Michael Bellman as a composer of pastiches on inept poetry. Together with Mortensen and on behalf of the Swedish Academy, Möller has completed a critical and annotated edition of the modernist poet Gunnar Ekelöf’s "Samlade dikter" ('Collected Poems') III–IV, in the Academy’s classics series (2025). In a new project, "The history and significance of the pekoral, the noble pekoral and the pekoral pastiche in Sweden from the 1600s to the present", he examines and analyses the phenomenon of the pekoral, unintentionally comic and stylistically incompetent poetry.