Lotta Strandberg

Lotta Strandberg is an associate professor of English at the University of South-Eastern Norway. She has a PhD (FT) in comparative literature from the University of Helsinki, Finland and a MA in comparative literature from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and a MSC (Econ.) from the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration – HANKEN.

Her research interests intersect various fields within cultural studies and critical theory, such as human rights and literature, literary theory, gender and postcolonial theory.  The literary conversation as a sight for learning and developing critical thinking is particularly close to her heart. She has a specialisation in world literature with emphasis on South Asian literature.

Dr. Strandberg has been visiting scholar at the University of Arhus (2006), The Jamia Millia University, Delhi (2009), and at New York University (2014-2015). She has published within literary studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies.

Dr. Strandberg has significant experience (16 years) from the transnational Nordic collaboration within research, research policy and funding. She worked at NordForsk for eight years, initiating and developing the research programmes Education for Tomorrow, The Nordic Gender Paradox and the Bio-economy initiative. She was responsible for gender balance and policies involving gender perspective and worked as an adviser for the European Commission on gender policy issues.