Graduate Student, Cinema Studies
About
BA and MA from Stockholm University, both in Cinema Studies. Before becoming a PhD student I worked at the Ingmar Bergman Foundation with the Bergman Archives. I am a part-time lecturer at the Department of Cinema Studies and have also worked as International Co-ordinator and conference organizer at the department. I have done two longer research periods in the UK, first as visiting PhD student at the Department of Film Studies, King’s College London, then as visiting reseach assistant at School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary, University of London. I am part of the Women’s Film History Network – UK/Ireland and the Women Film Pioneers Project, and a member of the Steering Committee for the Women Film History International Network and the Women and the Silent Screen conference series.
The aim of my PhD thesis is to contextualize the representation of the body in British and American television dramas depicting fictive crime solving procedures using forensic science. I argue that forensic crime dramas are part of a larger cultural discussion on the relationship between the body, science and the concept of truth, which has been stimulated by a number of recent changes in western society. For example, these shows dramatize a number of tensions arising from the body increasingly being understood as both deterministic and plastic. The thesis will also discuss the forensic crime genre as a distinctly televisual genre and compare contemporary examples (such as CSI, Crossing Jordan, Silent Witness, Lie to Me, etc.) with series from the 60s and 70s (The Criminalist, Silent Evidence, The Expert, Quincy M.E. etc).
As part of the Women Film Pioneers Project I’m researching early Swedish female film workers, with a particular focus on Alva Lundin. Lundin was Sweden’s most successful inter-title designer during the silent era and then continued her career producing credit sequences for around 400 films.
Research interests include popular television, the crime genre, corporality and science in film and media, fan culture, inter-titles, feminist film history and early female filmworkers.
