Niklas Salmose

Professor

Department of Languages Faculty of Arts and Humanities

niklas.salmose@lnu.se

+46 470-70 82 82

Dr. Salmose holds a PhD in English from University of Edinburgh and
was a visiting Professor at UCLA autumn 2018. He is currently Vice-
Chair of the Department of Languages at Linnaeus University, Sweden, with a focus on internatinoalization and research and co-coordinator for the graduate school MIDWorld financed by the Swedish Research Council. Salmose is currently on a RJ Sabbatical working on the monograp project Mediations of Nostalgia: Aeshetics, Intermediality, Ecology.

Teaching

He teaches English literature at all levels in the Department of Languages, presently on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Intermedial Ecocriticism, Nordic Nostalgia as well as supervising and examing BA and MA theses. He is presently supervising four PhD projects:

Lara María Rodríguez Sieweke: Rereading the Slicks: An Intermedial Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Magazine Short Stories (Umeå University)
Anders Ottosson: Follow My Lead: Mobilizing Bodily Gestures in Art Performance for Public Intervention and Subversion (Leiden University)
Beatriz Carlsson Pecharromán: Analysis of the Influence of Western Imperialism on Nostalgic Aeshetics in Literature (Global Humanities, Linnaeus University)
Anna Ishchenko: Reconfiguring the Aesthetics of the Ecological Crisis
in Literary Computer Games (MIDWorld, Linnaeus University)

Research

Salmose has published and presented internationally on nostalgia, Nordic noir, Hitchcock, cinematic style in fiction, modernism, the Anthropocene and Hollywood, animal horror, intermediality and sensorial aesthetics in fiction. Recently he has worked within the broad field of environmental humanities.

He edited an issue on the Anthropocene for the journal Ekfrase 2016, a collection of nostalgic essays 2018, a special issue on contemporary nostalgia for the journal Humanities 2018, a book on experimental Swedish filmmaker Eric M. Nilsson,Transmediations. Communication across Media Borders for Routledge with Lars Elleström 2020, a book on comets, Cultural Comets 2022, a collection of essays on the Swedish filmmakers Hasse Alfredsson and Tage Danielsson (2023), and a radical reinterpration of literary biography, F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) together with David Rennie. In 2024 Intermedial Ecocriticism: The Climate Crisis Throgh Art and Media was published in open access by Rowman & Littlefield, a productive collaboration with Linnaeus colleuage Jørgen Bruhn. He is currently co-editing two special journal issues: Ecological Emergencies Across Media (Humanities 2024) and The Voices of Water: Blue-Eco Stories in Multi-Modal Languages (Textus 2024). In 2024 he is on a 12 month sabbatical financed by Riksbankens jubileumsfond (For the advancement of the humanities and social sceinces) writing the monograph Mediations of Nostalgia: Aeshetics, Intermediality, Ecology (Edinburgh University Press).

At Linnaeus University, he is a full member of the Linnaeus University Center of Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) and in charge of the center's international collaborations. Other projects include Future Food Cultures in the Anthropocene and IMS Green: Mediations of Climate and Ecological Emergency.

Commissions

He is the Vice-Chair of the Department of Languages and co-coordinator of the graduate school MIDWorld, a collaboration between Linnaeus and Örebro universities. At Linnaeus he is faculty representative for Minor Field Studies scholarships. As a Stintonian, he also assists in the process of reviewing Stint applications at Linnaeus.

He is on the editorial board for the international journals Humanities and Text Matters: A Journal of Literature , Theory and Culture. He is on the advisory board for the book series Palgrave Studies in Intermediality.

Salmose is an executive board member of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society.

My research groups

My ongoing research projects

Publications

Article in journal (Refereed)

Höglund, J., Salmose, N. (2024). Climate diaspora and future food cultures in Snowpiercer(2013) and The Road (2009). Food, Culture, and Society : an international journal of multidisciplinary research. 27 (2). 310-325.
Status: Published
Amri, M.M., Salmose, N., Widodo, H.W., Subagyo, K.P. (2024). Climatic Awareness in the Giving Waters in Hawthorne’s Uncharted Short Stories. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research. 7 (2). 524-537.
Status: Published
Salmose, N. (2020). Sensorial Aesthetics : Cross-Modal Stylistics in Modernist Fiction. Text Matters : A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture. (10). 321-335.
Status: Published
Salmose, N. (2018). “Our flame, the will-o’-the-wisp that dances in a few eyes, is soon to be blown out and all will fade” : Modern Literary Nostalgia as Death Mood. Books Now: Gdansk Journal of Humanities. (9). 109-122.
Status: Published
Salmose, N. (2018). “A past that has never been present” : the literary experience of childhood and nostalgia. Text Matters : A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture. 8 (8). 332-351.
Status: Published
Salmose, N. (2018). The Apocalyptic Sublime: Anthropocene Representation and Environmental Agency in Hollywood Action-Adventure Cli-Fi Films. Journal of Popular Culture. 51 (6). 1415-1433.
Status: Published
Salmose, N. (2016). Translating All the Sad Young Men into Swedish : Close Reading par Excellence. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review. 14 (1). 136-158.
Status: Published
Salmose, N. (2014). Reading Nostalgia : Textual Memory in The Great Gatsby. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review. 12 (1). 67-87.
Status: Published

Conference paper (Refereed)

Salmose, N. (2023). Intermedial Nostalgia. .
Salmose, N. (2022). Roads to Environmental Agency: Transmediations of the Post-Apocalypse in Novel and Film The Road. .
Salmose, N. (2022). Diasporic Nostalgia in Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger. .
Salmose, N. (2021). We Are What We Eat! Food Cultures in Anthropocene Cinematic Cli-fi. "Trust Me!" Truthfulness and Truth Claims across Media. Linnaeus University 9-12 March 2021 : Book of abstracts.
Salmose, N. (2021). Food Nostalgia in the Climate Crisis. 6th MEMORY, MELANCHOLY AND NOSTALGIA International Interdisciplinary Conference, Gdansk.
Salmose, N. (2021). Future Food Cultures Across Media Borders. Digital Matters: Designing / Performing Agency for the Anthropocene : Berlin 5-7 September.
Salmose, N. (2020). The re-imagined 1980s : Media Nostalgia for the age of Innocence. The Fifth International Conference on Nostalgia and Melancholia : Gdansk University.
Salmose, N. (2019). Nostalgic Futures : Hollywood’s Conceptualization of Life after Environmental Disaster. Memories of the Future Conference : 29 - 30 March 2019, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, University of London.
Salmose, N. (2019). The Critical Reception of F. Scott Fitzgerald in Sweden, 1928-1951. Place and Placelessness - The 15th International F.S. Fitzgerald Society Conference, 24-29 June.
Salmose, N. (2019). Hypothetical Nostalgia : Nostalgia in the Present. 4th Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia International Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk, Poland.
Salmose, N. (2018). The Nostalgic Experience in A Farewell to Arms. XVIII International Hemingway Conference : Hemingway in Paris, “Paris est une fête”... Hemingway's Moveable Feast, July 22-28, 2018.
Salmose, N. (2017). Nostalgic Aesthetics: The Fictive Nostalgic Experience. Presented at the 2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference "Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia". Gdansk, Poland, 7-8 December 2017.
Salmose, N. (2017). The Rustle of Swede Girls : A Speculation of the Representation of Scandinavians in Fitzgerald’s Fiction. 14th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference : Saint Paul, Minnesota 2017.
Salmose, N. (2017). The Apocalyptic Sublime : Narrating Environmental Disaster. Presented at 2017 International Conference on Narrative, Lexington, Kentucky, March 23-26.
Salmose, N. (2017). War at Distance : Women, Neutrality and Aesthetics in Swedish World War One Writing. Presented at The Fictional First World War : Imagination and Memory Since 1914. An International Conference at the Centre for the Novel : University of Aberdeen, 6-9 April 2017.
Salmose, N. (2016). Can a Proletarian Writer Be a Modernist? : A Study of Swedish Proletarian Writers in a Modernist Context. AMSN3: Modernist Work. University of New South Wales, Sydney. 29-31 March, 2016.
Salmose, N. (2016). Nature vs Culture : A Transmediation from Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) into The Nature-on-a-Rampage Film Genre of the 1970s. Transmediations! Communcation Across Media Borders : Abstracts. Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, October 13-15, 2016. 74-75.
Salmose, N. (2016). The Mediterranean Exotic as Nostalgia : Lost Worlds and Found Worlds in D.H. Lawrence’s The Lost Girl. Mediterranean Modernism. Origins and Otherness in 20th Century «Modernisms».
Salmose, N. (2015). Little Bright Eyes : A Contextual Case for ‘The Rich Boy’. 13th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference, Dublin and Waterford, 4 - 11 juli.
Salmose, N. (2015). "Our flame, the will-o'-the-wisp that dances in a few eyes, is soon to be blown out and all will fade" : Nostalgia as Death Mood. .
Salmose, N. (2015). Multimodal Modernism. Writing Literary History: Europe 1900 - 1950. 30-31.
Salmose, N. (2014). Modernist Fiction and Sensorial Aesthetics. .
Salmose, N. (2014). The Phenomenological Experience of Childhood. The End of Place as We Know It, 17 – 19 September 2014 : Book of Abstracts. 16-16.
Salmose, N. (2014). Nostalgic Utopia. Utopia : Fourth Bi-annual Conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies. 172-172.
Salmose, N. (2013). The Sounds and Smells of the South : The Auditive and Olfactory in Fitzgerald’s Tarleton trilogy. .
Salmose, N. (2013). Nostalgia and Modernism. Time and Temporality in European Modernism and the Avant-Gardes (1900-1950).
Salmose, N. (2011). The Use of Textual Memory in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. .
Salmose, N. (2009). Nostalgia within the texts of F. Scott Fitzgerald. .

Book (Refereed)

Salmose, N., Bruhn, J. (2024). Intermedial Ecocriticism : The Climate Crisis Through Art and Media. Lexington Books.

Chapter in book (Refereed)

Salmose, N. (2025). A Darker Shade of Green: The Great Gatsby and Fossil Fuel Capital. The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Bloomsbury Academic.
Salmose, N. (2024). 1918-19. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press. 181-201.
Salmose, N., Sandberg, E. (2024). Literature and Nostalgia. The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia. Routledge.
Bruhn, J., Salmose, N. (2024). Intermedial Ecocriticism. Contemporary Ecocritical Methods. Lanham, Lexington. 223-242.
Salmose, N., Ishchenko, A. (2024). Anthropocene Nostalgia. The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia. Routledge.
Salmose, N. (2024). The Sonification of Modernist Fiction: A Critical Review. The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality. Palgrave Macmillan. 769-802.
Bruhn, J., Davidsson, M., Salmose, N. (2023). The Ecological Crisis and Intermedial Studies. The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality. Palgrave Macmillan.
Salmose, N. (2023). The Sonification of Modernist Fiction: A Critical Review. The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality. Palgrave Macmillan.
Salmose, N. (2022). Nostalgic is the Night. Agrégation anglais 2023. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. Paris, ellipses. 153-168.
Salmose, N. (2022). Cometalgia: Fear and Thrill in Nostalgic Cometology. Cultural Comets and Other Celestials. Växjö, Trolltrumma Academia. 107-131.
Salmose, N. (2022). The Sounds and the Smells of the South : The Meaning and Use of the Auditory and Olfactory in Fitzgerald’s Tarleton Trilogy. The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald : The South Side of Paradise. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 87-104.
Jensen, S.K., Salmose, N. (2022). Media and Modalities : Film. Intermedial Studies : An Introduction to Meaning Across Media. Routledge. 28-41.
Bruhn, J., Lutas, L., Salmose, N., Schirrmacher, B. (2022). Media Representation : Film, Music and Painting in Literature. Intermedial Studies : An Introduction to Meaning Across Media. Routledge. 162-193.
Bruhn, J., Salmose, N. (2022). Intermedial ekokritik. Ekokritiska metoder. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 233-258.
Bruhn, J., Salmose, N., Schirrmacher, B., Tornborg, E. (2022). Truthfulness and truth claims as transmedial phenomena. Intermedial Studies : An Introduction to Meaning Across Media. Routledge. 225-254.
Salmose, N., Sandberg, E. (2021). Literature and Nostalgia : Vestiges of Paradise. Intimations of Nostalgia : Multidisciplinary Explorations of an Enduring Emotion. Bristol University Press. 191-210.
Salmose, N. (2021). Södern sjöng för oss : Ljud och lukt i Fitzgeralds Tarletontrilogi. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tarleton. Stockholm, Trolltrumma Academia. 109-120.
Salmose, N. (2020). Splatter Horror Crime : Crossing Medial Borders in Jo Nesbø’s The Snowman. Transnational Crime Fiction : Mobility, Borders and Detection. Cham, Palgrave Macmillan. 243-259.
Salmose, N. (2020). Three Transmediations of the Anthropocene : An Intermedial Ecocritical Reading of Facts, Sci-Fi, PopSci, and Eco-Horror. Transmediations : Communication Across Media Borders. New York, Routledge. 254-274.
Salmose, N. (2019). Den nostalgiska ikonotexten i Emil i Lönneberga. Astrid Lindgrens bildvärldar. Göteborg, Makadam Förlag. 41-64.
Salmose, N. (2019). Swedish Social Modernism : The Inward and Outward Turn in Eyvind Johnson's Stad i ljus. Modernist Work : Labor, Aesthetics, and the Work of Art. London, Bloomsbury Academic. 163-178.
Salmose, N. (2019). Behemoth, Nostalgia and Ecological Agency. Futures Worth Preserving : Cultural Constructions of Nostalgia and Sustainability. Bielefeld, Transcript Verlag. 239-256.
Salmose, N. (2018). Art About Nostalgia or Nostalgic Art?. Once Upon a Time : Nostalgic Narratives in Transition. Stockholm, Trolltrumma Academia. 127-139.
Salmose, N. (2018). Down and Out in Mysterious Morocco : Ontological Uncertainty in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Hitchcock and The Cold War : New Essays on the Espionage Films, 1956-1969. New York, Pace University Press. 243-266.
Salmose, N., Sandberg, E. (2018). Introduction. Once Upon a Time : Nostalgic Narratives in Transition. Stockholm, Trolltrumma Academia. 6-12.
Salmose, N. (2018). Harry Hole : Jo Nesbø (1960–). 100 Greatest Literary Detectives. London, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 88-90.
Salmose, N. (2018). Martin Beck : Maj Sjöwall (1935–), Per Wahlöö (1926–1975). 100 Greatest Literary Detectives. London, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 14-16.
Salmose, N. (2018). Mediterranean Exotic as Nostalgia : Lost Worlds and Found Worlds in D.H. Lawrence's The Lost Girl. Multiple Mediterranean : Myths, Utopias and Real-Life Experiences. Roma, Fabrizio Serra Editore. 31-45.
Salmose, N. (2015). We Spiders : Spider as the Monster of Modernity in the Big Gug and Nature-on-a-Rampage Film Genres. Animal Horror Cinema : Genre, History and Criticism. Palgrave Macmillan. 146-167.

Collection (editor) (Refereed)

Salmose, N., Silfver, A. (2022). Cultural Comets and Other Celestials. Växjö, Trolltrumma Academia. 132.
Salmose, N., Elleström, L. (2020). Transmediations : Communication Across Media Borders. New York, Routledge. 284.
Salmose, N., Economou, M., Papageorgiou, V. (2019). Med fingret vidrör du orden : en antologi samtida grekisk lyrik. Växjö, Trolltrumma. 93.
Salmose, N. (2019). Contemporary Nostalgia. Basel, MDPI. 194.
Salmose, N., Sandberg, E. (2018). Once Upon a Time : Nostalgic Narratives in Transition. Stockholm, Trolltrumma Academia. 142.
Salmose, N. (2018). Humanities : Contemporary Nostalgia. Basel, MDPI. 300.
Bruhn, J., Löwe, C., Lutas, L., Rossholm, A.S., Salmose, N., et al. (2016). Ekfrase : Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. Bergen, Universitetsforlaget. 100.

Article in journal (Other academic)

Salmose, N. (2020). Nostalgin och döden. Hjärnstorm. (140-41). 4-13.
Status: Published
Salmose, N. (2019). Nostalgia Makes Us All Tick : A Special Issue on Contemporary Nostalgia. Humanities. 8 (3).
Status: Published

Conference paper (Other academic)

Salmose, N. (2019). Current Issues in Fitzgerald Studies : F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography. Place and Placelessness - The 15th International F.S. Fitzgerald Society Conference.
Salmose, N., Curnutt, K., Mcgowan, P., Churchwell, S., Blazek, W., et al. (2019). Current Issues in Fitzgerald Studies : Roundtable: Oxford Paperbacks Reissues for the Centennials. Place and Placelessness - The 15th International F.S. Fitzgerald Society Conference.
Salmose, N. (2017). Kaos i klassrummet : om filmval, känslor och att göra film till ett aktivt och inte passivt medium. [ Presented at ] Upp till kamp! Inspirationsdag Skolbio i Jönköping.
Salmose, N. (2017). A Method of Analyzing Emotional Experiences in Fiction. Narrative and Experience – concept workshop : University of Tampere, Mon 18 Sep 2017.
Salmose, N. (2015). Roundtable : Translating Fitzgerald. .
Salmose, N. (2015). Stalk and Slash in the Class. .

Book (Other academic)

Fitzgerald, F.S., Salmose, N. (2021). Tarleton. Stockholm, Trolltrumma Academia.
Bal, M., Salmose, N. (2019). Don Quijote : Sad Countenances. Växjö, Trolltrumma.

Chapter in book (Other academic)

Salmose, N., Rennie, D. (2024). Introduction. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press. ix-xiv.
Bruhn, J., Davidsson, M., Salmose, N. (2024). The Ecological Crisis and Intermedial Studies. The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality. Cham, Palgrave Macmillan. 1033-1059.
Salmose, N., Silfver, A. (2022). Introduction. Cultural Comets and Other Celestials. Stockholm, Trolltrumma Academia. 6-11.
Salmose, N. (2021). Redaktörens förord. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tarleton. Stockholm, Trolltrumma Academia. 7-10.
Salmose, N., Elleström, L. (2020). Foreword. Transmediations : Communication Across Media Borders. New York, Routledge. xiii-xvi.
Grennberger, M., Holmström, A., Salmose, N. (2019). Andas i alexandriner : Intervju. Apropå Eric M. : En antologi om Eric M. Nilssons filmer. Stockholm, Trolltrumma. 17-42.
Salmose, N. (2019). Resa med resorna. Apropå Eric M. : En antologi om Eric M. Nilssons filmer. Röstånga, Trolltrumma. 155-162.
Salmose, N. (2014). Efterord : Fitzgerald och nostalgi. Alla sorgsna unga män. Röstånga, Trolltrumma. 225-230.

Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)

Salmose, N. (2012). Towards a Poetics of Nostalgia : The Nostalgic Experience in Modern Fiction. Doctoral Thesis. Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh. 383.

Collection (editor) (Other academic)

Salmose, N., Rennie, D. (2024). F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press. 448.

Article, book review (Other academic)

Salmose, N. (2016). McKenzie Wark : Molecular Red : Theory for the Anthropocene. Ekfrase : Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. 7 (1-2). 74-77.
Status: Published

Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Salmose, N. (2023). Fiktionens roll i den ekologiska krisen. Ikaros. 3. 36-41.
Status: Published

Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Salmose, N. (2023). Forntidsbygd till framtidsbygd : Äppelkriget och kapitalocen. Hasse & Tages filmer : En riktigt viktig liten bok. Växjö, Trolltrumma. 91-100.
Holmström, A., Salmose, N. (2019). Förord. Apropå Eric M. : En antologi om Eric M. Nilssons filmer. Röstånga, Trolltrumma. 7-8.
Salmose, N. (2018). A sudden beat of clock time : [ review ]. Entre-lieux : chez Collections artistiques de l'Université de Liège. Liège, Musée Wittert ULiège. 62-63.

Artistic output (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Salmose, N. (2019). Don Quichotte : Sad Countenances. 00:15:00.
Waltregny, E., Delville, M., Salmose, N. (2017). Ali e t o lo ss. Stockholm, Trolltrumma.
Salmose, N. (2014). F. Scott Fitzgerald - Alla sorgsna unga män. Röstånga, Trolltrumma. 234.

Collection (editor) (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Salmose, N., Holmström, A., Törnqvist, P. (2023). Hasse & Tages filmer : En riktigt viktig liten bok. Växjö, Trolltrumma. 302.
Salmose, N., Törnqvist, P. (2015). Kvinnoröster ur första världskriget. Växjö, Trolltrumma. 42.