Stefan Helgesson - Curriculum Vitae#

Education, degrees

April 2010. Course in doctoral supervision (4 credits). Stockholm University.
November 2008. Docent in comparative literature. Uppsala University.
January 2007. Course in higher education pedagogy (6 credits). Uppsala University.
May 1999. Doctor of Philosophy. Thesis in comparative literature: Sports of Culture: Writing the Resistant Subject in South Africa. Supervisor: professor Bengt Landgren. Uppsala University.
January 1991. BA degree in comparative literature, history of ideas, and Portuguese. Uppsala University. (Portuguese at Stockholm University.)

Current employment

From March 2011 onwards
Professor of English literary studies (“professor i engelska med litteraturvetenskaplig inriktning”), Department of English, Stockholm University.

External funding

• Individual projects:
  • “Beyond Herder: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in Postcolonial Literature”, 2013-2016. The Swedish Research Council. SEK 1,851,000
    
  • “The Invention of World Literature: Studies in the Mediation of Post-European Literary Values”, 2007-2009. The Swedish Research Council. SEK 1,662,000
    
  • Two-year postdoc at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2003-2005. STINT. SEK 936,000
    
  • “Routes of Modernity in Southern African Literature, ca 1945-1975”, 2002-2005. The Swedish Research Council. SEK 1,140,000
• Joint projects:
  • “Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures”, 2016-2021. A research programme with 26 participants. Principal investigator: Stefan Helgesson. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. SEK 43,800,000
    
  • “The Writing of Colonial Time”, 2011-2015. Subproject within the research programme (25 participants) “Time, Memory and Representation”, 2010-2015. Principal investigator: Hans Ruin. The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.
    
  • “Modernism under Portuguese Rule”, 2000-2003. Subproject within the research programme (20 participants) **“Literature and Literary History in Global Contexts”, 1999-2005. Principal investigators: Gunilla Lindberg-Wada and Anders Pettersson. The Swedish Research Council.
    
  • “Reformernas epok: striderna kring litteraturundervisning för svensklärare 1965-1975”, 2001. Subproject within ”Universitetsundervisningens praktik: exemplet litteraturhistoria med poetik/litteraturvetenskap/blockämnet svenska”, 1999-2003. Principal investigator: Bengt Landgren. The Swedish Research Council.