Johan Höglund

Johan Höglund

Professor
Department of Languages Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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Dr Johan Höglund is Professor of English at the Department of Languages and a member of the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. He holds degrees from Brown University and Uppsala University. His research focuses the relationship between popular culture and Empire as it manifests during different eras and in different media, and on how fiction narrates the ongoing planetary emergency. He is the PI of two externally funded projects: Future Food Imaginaries in Global Climate Fiction funded by FORMAS, a Swedish research council for sustainability and, with Rebecca Duncan, World-Literature and the Other Oil: Palm Oil Fiction from England and West Africa, 1807-2020, funded by the Swedish Research Council.

 

Teaching

Johan Höglund teaches English Literature, American Literature, Literary Theory, Postcolonial Literature and the Anthropocene narrative on graduate and postgraduate courses. He also supervises and examines doctoral dissertations at Linnaeus University and other institutions.

Research

Johan Höglund has published extensively on the relationship between imperialism and popular culture in a number of different contexts, including the late-Victorian era, the long history of US global expansion and decline, and the often unrecognized era of Nordic colonialism. He has also done work on fiction that speculate on how the planet and people will transform due to the climate emergency. He is the author of the monographs The American Climate Emergency Narrative: Origins, Developments and Imaginary Futures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), andThe American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence (Ashgate, 2014). He also co-editor and co-author of Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene (with Justin Edwards och Rune Graulund, Minnesota University Press, 2021), Nordic Gothic (with Maria Holmgren Troy, Yvonne Leffler och Sofia Wijkmark, Manchester UP, 2020), B-Movie Gothic: International Perspectives (with Justin D Edwards, Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism (with Katarina Gregersdotter and Nicklas Hållén, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires (with Tabish Khair, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). He has published extensively in journals such as Journal of Postcolonial WritingGame Studies, English Literature in Transition, Continuum, and The European Journal of American Studies

Commissions

Johan Höglund is a part of the editorial board of Anthem Impact Studies in Victorian Popular Fiction, American Gothic Studies, and Transtext(e)s Transcultures: Journal of Global Cultural Studies. He has edited several academic collections, and also served as guest editor for special issues on Diasporic Food Culture on Nordic Colonialism for Food, Culture and Society (with Ana Grgic), Scandinavian Studies (with Linda Andersson Burnett) and on the Contemporary Adventure Narrative for The Journal of Popular Culture (with Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet). 

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