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My postdoc project, “Regarding Reading: The Poiesis of Literary Studies,” explores the kind of responses literary texts asks of us.

My first monograph, Metaphor, Animals, Modernism: Specters of Literarity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026) draws on Jacques Derrida and Paul Ricœur to examine the importance of metaphor in the posthumanities and literary animal studies. Through readings of novels by Virginia Woolf, H.D., and D.H. Lawrence, I show that in order to address the problem of figurative readings of the other-than-human, it is crucial to understand the spectrality of metaphor.

I received my PhD from Stockholm University in 2025, with the dissertation “Creaturely Metaphors in D.H. Lawrence, H.D., and Virginia Woolf,” which the Swedish Academy awarded as laudable research in Literary Studies.

Research interests: Literary Theory, Literature and Philosophy, Deconstruction, Poetics, Tropology, Formalism, Modernism.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

Metaphor, Animals, Modernism: Specters of Literarity. Palgrave Macmillan (2026).

“Carrying the Other in D. H. Lawrence’s ‘The Man Who Loved Islands’ and Last Poems.”

Reading D. H. Lawrence in the Anthropocene. Ed. Terry Gifford. Edinburgh University Press (September 2025).

“More Swallows to Follow: Sweeping, Swirling, Wheeling Turns in H.D’s Asphodel.” Modernist

Cultures, 18.2 (2023).

Selected Other Publications

“En metafor är litteratur i miniatyr.” Svenska Dagbladet (7 March 2025).

“Hur disciplinen disciplinerar läsningen.” Svensk filosofi (3 February 2025).

”Ämnet för vårt ämne.” Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, 53.1 (December 2023).

”Metaforens animaliska rörlighet: Nattfjärilar och djurspråk i Virginia Woolfs The Waves.” Aiolos

– Tidskrift för litteratur, teori och estetik, 74–75 (March 2023).

“Asphodel överlevde lyckligtvis sin författares önskan om destruktion.” Dagens Nyheter (11

August 2022).