Lena Manderstedt

About me

Research areas and interests

I have a broad interest in education science with a particular emhasis on Swedish didactic issues. I have been engaged in various areas of the didactics of literature in relation to media and youth culture; and also language and literature education as it relates to national curriculum. A particular interest is directed towards considering fan communities and other social media as literary venues and rooms for negotiation and re-negotiation of norms, values and identity.

I presented my doctoral thesis titled Växelspel med förhinder: Skärningspunkter i verksamhetsförlagd svensklärarutbildning. The thesis highlights the way educational institutions express themselves on the issue of work placement, in the subject Swedish. 

For a couple of years I was the editor of the Swedish Teachers' Association's yearbook where the focus has been on new research relevant to school and Swedish subject.

Research interests: (Social) Media and Cultural Studies: rooms / places / expression and storytelling, literature didactics, intersectionality, ideology and power, curriculum theory and university pedagogy.

Current research

För närvarande arbetar jag med följande projekt:

Läser gör man! Läsning och litteratursamtal i och utanför skolan/Reading in progress! Reading and book talk in and out of school External link.

National Minorities in Swedish Children's Literature External link.

The Mine at the Intersection of Local and Global. Depictions of Mining and their Impact on People Living in Sparsely Populated Areas External link.

Building a Brand as a Young Competent Reader. A Literary Cycle Based on Marketing External link.

Bestiality and Revenge. Political Motives and Aestetic Expressions in Young Heroines Violence External link.

Short CV

·          Lecturer in Swedish with a didactic approach, Luleå University 2013

            Ledamot anställningsnämnden 2018-

·          Education Coordinator for the area of Educational Science and Humanities, Luleå University 40% 2014-2016.

·          Guest researcher / guest teacher at Jönköping 20% 2013-2018.

·          Higher Educational Developer, Luleå University 50% 2013- 2014

·          Doctoral Student, Swedish didactics, Luleå University of Technology 2008-2013. Dissertation maj 2013.

·          Lecturer in Swedish, Luleå University of Technology 2003-2008

·          Teacher in Swedish, upper secondary  school 1999-2003

·         Teacher in Swedish, Komvux 1997-1999