Manager of RRU
Manager of RRU, Greek (Ancient and Byzantine)
johanna.akujarviklass.luse |
2017-03-09
Researcher, Manager of Research and Research Education
- Greek (Ancient and Byzantine)
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail johanna.akujarviklass.luse
Phone +46 46 222 96 63
Room SOL:A225
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
Currently I am working on two project that concern antiquity in Sweden. One project focuses on ancient Greek in school, university, poetry and speech in the Swedish empire. With researchers in Tartu and Helsinki, we seek to answer questions like why did some chose to use (Humanist) Greek in stead of (Neo-)Latin? Prestige, show of learning and ambition are obvious answers, but related to the wider context, what else can have been at stake? Who were the authors? For whom did they write? What did they write? The other project is a study on Swedish translators of ancient literature (the 16th to the 21st centuries). The aim is to study the small section of the Swedish reception of Antiquity accessed through the translations. The material allows us to follow changes and continuities in Swedish perception and interpretation of the literatures of Antiquity over more than 400 years.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Classics Refashioned. Swedish Translations of Ancient Literature (research leader)
- Helleno-Nordica. The Humanist Greek Heritage of the Swedish Empire (research leader)
- Scandinavian translations of ancient and mediaeval literature - a bibliografical webb resource
- Translated into Swedish. Dedications, prefaces, introductions, and postfaces to Swedish translations of antique literature (16th to 21st centuries) (research leader)
- Translated into Swedish. Ancient literature and its Swedish translators (16th to 21st centuries) (research leader)
Currently I am working on two project that concern antiquity in Sweden. One project focuses on ancient Greek in school, university, poetry and speech in the Swedish empire. With researchers in Tartu and Helsinki, we seek to answer questions like why did some chose to use (Humanist) Greek in stead of (Neo-)Latin? Prestige, show of learning and ambition are obvious answers, but related to the wider context, what else can have been at stake? Who were the authors? For whom did they write? What did they write? The other project is a study on Swedish translators of ancient literature (the 16th to the 21st centuries). The aim is to study the small section of the Swedish reception of Antiquity accessed through the translations. The material allows us to follow changes and continuities in Swedish perception and interpretation of the literatures of Antiquity over more than 400 years.
In my research I have had a constant interest in how the writing persona constructs a role and function for its "I" in the text, and its entering into a larger tradition. In my doctoral thesis I explored the elusive yet ever present Ego in Pausanias' Periegesis, in my current project I explore the translators' constuction of their roles at the intersection between Antiquity and the present.
Books (3)
- Aristoteles, .. (2012). Retoriken : Aristoteles; översättning, inledning och noter av Johanna Akujärvi ; introduktion av Janne Lindqvist Grinde. Retorikförlaget.
- Akujärvi, J. (2005). Researcher, Traveller, Narrator : Studies in Pausanias' Periegesis. Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia, 12. Almqvist & Wiksell International. Dissertation.
- Akujärvi, J. (1999). Interpretational Problems in Pausanias’ Attika (I 18.1, 6 and 9). Scripta Minora Regiae Societatis Humaniorum Litterarum Lundensis, 1998/1999:1. Almqvist & Wiksell.
Editorships (3)
- Akujärvi, J., Blomqvist, J. & Blomqvist, K. (2021). (Eds.) DE RISU – Representations and Evaluations of laughter in Greek and Latin Literature : Papers presented at Colloquium Balticum XVI (Lund, November 6–9, 2018). Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia, 27. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
- Akujärvi, J. & Mortensen, L. B. (2010). (Eds.) Oldtidens og Middelalderens Litteratur – i skandinaviska oversættelser. Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab.
- Piltz, A., Akujärvi, J., Sabatakakis, V., Blomqvist, K., Walser, G. & Nordgren, L. (2003). (Eds.) For particular reasons : studies in honour of Jerker Blomqvist. Nordic Academic Press.
Articles (6)
- Akujärvi, J. (2021). Choquerar den moderne läsaren : Aristofanes Aves på svenska: översättarna, översättningarna och det kroppsliga. Aigis. Elektronisk tidskrift for klassiske studier i Norden, 21, 1-43. Köpenhamns Universitet * Saxo-Institutet.
- Akujärvi, J. (2014). Suethice : Dissertationer, disputationer och dissertationsöversättningar under 1800-talet. Aigis. Elektronisk tidskrift for klassiske studier i Norden, 1-43. Köpenhamns Universitet * Saxo-Institutet.
- Akujärvi, J. (2012). Amor och Psyche : En episod ur Apuleius Metamorfoser i svensk översättning från 1666. Aigis. Elektronisk tidskrift for klassiske studier i Norden, 12, 1-22. Köpenhamns Universitet * Saxo-Institutet.
- Akujärvi, J. (2012). One and 'I' in the Frame (Narrative). Authorial Voice, Travelling Persona, and Addressee in Pausanias' Periegesis. Classical Quarterly, 62, 327-358. Cambridge University Press.
- Akujärvi, J. (2010). ...til Rusin-Strutar och Tortebotnar : översättningars nytta enligt förord till svenska översättningar av antik litteratur under 1700-talets första hälft. Sjuttonhundratal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 7, 50-73. Sällskapet för 1700-talsstudier.
- Akujärvi, J. (2005). The Unjust Mantineans. Pausanias VIII 8.10. Eranos, 103, 1-13.
Book chapters (21)
- Akujärvi, J. (submitted). The drama of translating Greek tragedy. Issues and debates in 19th century Sweden. Acta of conference Translation in Antiquity, Translating Antiquity.
- Akujärvi, J. (submitted). ”Hvad är bästa sättet at öfversätta et Skaldestycke?” Om svensk översättning av antik poesi c. 1750–1850. In Kleberg, L. (Ed.) Världslitteraturen och dess svenska röster. Bidrag till svensk översättningshistoria.
- Akujärvi, J. (submitted). Suethice. On 19th century Swedish university translations of ancient literature.
- Akujärvi, J. (accepted/in press). Versificandi mania : University teaching of Greek and Greek verses in dissertations in Sweden. In Ciccolella, F. & Silvano, L. (Eds.) Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, Graecia transvolavit Alpes : The Study of Greek in Early Modern Europe. Brill.
- Akujärvi, J., Päll, J., Korhonen, T. & Sironen, E. (accepted/in press). Nordic Countries. In Pontani, F. & Weise, S. (Eds.) Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception, The Hellenizing Muse : A European Anthology of Poetry in Ancient Greek from the Renaissance to the Present. De Gruyter.
- Akujärvi, J. (2021). Aristophanes in Swedish : Shocking to the modern reader. In Akujärvi, J., Blomqvist, J. & Blomqvist, K. (Eds.) Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensi, DE RISU – representations and evaluations of laughter in Greek and Latin literature : Papers presented at Colloquium Balticum XVI (Lund, November 6–9, 2018) (pp. 45-79), 27. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
- Akujärvi, J. (2020). Greek occasional poetry from the Swedish Empire : The case of Josef Thun. In Jönson, A., Lindgärde, V., Möller, D. & Vetushko-Kalevich, A. (Eds.) Att dikta för livet, döden och evigheten : tillfällesdiktning under tidigmodern tid (pp. 61-86). Makadam förlag.
- Akujärvi, J. (2020). Neo-Latin texts and Humanist Greek paratexts : On two Wittenberg prints dedicated to crown prince Erik of Sweden. In Kajava, M., Korhonen, T. & Vesterinen, J. (Eds.) Commentationes humanarum litterarum, Meilicha Dôra : Poems and prose in Greek from Renaissance and Early Modern Europe (pp. 75-104), 138. Societas Scientiarum Fennica.
- Akujärvi, J. (2020). Translation in university dissertations : A study of Swedish (and Finnish) dissertations of the 19th century and earlier. In Fridenthal, M., Marti, H. & Seidel, R. (Eds.) Intersections. Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context (pp. 779-813), 71. Brill.
- Akujärvi, J. (2018). A Male Privilege? Women and the History of Swedish Translations of Ancient Literature before 1900. In Herrero López, I., Alvstad, C., Akujärvi, J. & Skarsbø Lindtner, S. (Eds.) Vita Traductiva, Gender and Translation. Understanding Agents in Transnational Reception (pp. 31-57), 10. Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre.
- Akujärvi, J. (2018). Efter som iag intet monument efter mig hafwer. Josef Thun som humanistgrekisk diktare. In Andersson, E. & Stenback, E. (Eds.) Acta Bibliothecae regiae Stockholmiensis, Böckerna i borgen. Ett halvsekel i Roggebiblioteket (pp. 163-182), 90. Kungliga biblioteket.
- Akujärvi, J. (2018). Xenophon and Aisopos for the Swedish youth : On the earliest printed translations of ancient literature in Sweden. In Päll, J. & Volt, I. (Eds.) Acta Societatis Morgensternianae, Hellenostephanos. Humanist Greek in Early Modern Europe : Learned Communities between Antiquity and Contemporary Culture (pp. 185-217), VI–VII. University of Tartu.
- Akujärvi, J. (2017). Suethice. On 19th century Swedish university translations of ancient literature. In Jönson, A. & Vogt Spira, G. (Eds.) Spudasmata, Classical tradition in the Baltic Region. Perceptions and Adaptions of Greece and Rome (pp. 253-274), 171. Georg Olms Verlag AG.
- Akujärvi, J. (2016). Hyenden under håglösa lärjungars lättja : Om lurkar till latinska och grekiska skoltexter fram till 1900. In Blomqvist, K. (Ed.) Studia Paedagogica Greca et Latina Lundensia, ”Gracerna talte som du.” : om Esaias Tegnér och bildningens betydelse för undervisningen (pp. 37-63), 4. Lund University.
- Akujärvi, J. (2015). An epic battle : Aesthetic and poetical struggles over the Swedish Iliads. In Goldwyn, A. (Ed.) Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Graeca Upsaliensia, The Trojan Wars and the making of the Modern World (pp. 161-183), 22. Uppsala universitet.
- Akujärvi, J. (2015). Svenska filologer och översättning inom och utanför universitetet : Exemplet tragediöversättning på 1800-talet. In Cullhed, E. & Lindberg, B. (Eds.) Konferenser / Kungl. Vitterhetens historie och antikvitets akademien, Klassisk filologi i Sverige : Reflexioner, riktningar, översättningar, öden (pp. 158-175), 89. Kungliga Vitterhets- historie- och antikvitetsakademien.
- Akujärvi, J. (2014). Homerus öfwersatt på Swenska och på metrisk wers!! : om 1800-talets svenska Homeros-översättningar. Årsbok, Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund. Årsbok 2014, 5-22. Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund.
- Akujärvi, J. (2012). Pausanias. In de Jong, I. I. (Ed.) Space in Ancient Greek Literature. Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative (pp. 235-255), Mnemosyne Supplements 339. Brill Academic Publishers.
- Akujärvi, J. (2012). Pausanias' Periegesis, Dionysius Periegetes, Eustathius' Commentary, and the Construction of the Periegetic Genre. In Searby, D., Balicka Witakowska, E. & Heldt, J. (Eds.) ΔΩΡΩΝ ΡΟΔΟΠΟΙΚΙΛΟΝ. Studies in Honour of Jan Olof Rosenqvist (pp. 41-52), Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia. 12. Uppsala universitet.
- Akujärvi, J. (2011). Innovatörer och traditionalister. Om tidiga svenska klassikeröversättares syn på sin roll i det svenska litterära systemet. In Holmberg, C.-G. & Ljung, P. (Eds.) Översättning – adaption, interpretation, transformation. Föredrag vid den 28:e studiekonferensen i International Association of Scandinavian Studies (IASS) i Lund 3–7 augusti 2010 = Translation – Adaptation, Interpretation, Transformation. Proceedings from the 28th Study Conference of IASS, Lund 3–7 August 2010, CSS Acta Series I. Centre for Scandinavian Studies Copenhagen-Lund (CSS).
- Akujärvi, J. (2008). Krig och konkurrens. Perserkrigstraditioner i ord och monument. In Beskow, P., Borgehammar, S. & Jönsson, A. (Eds.) Förbistringar och förklaringar. Festskrift till Anders Piltz (pp. 17-24). Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds universitet.
Encyclopaedia entries (5)
- Akujärvi, J. (2018). Aron Martin Alexanderson, 1843–1930. In Kleberg, L. (Ed.) Svenskt översättarlexikon. Litteraturbanken.
- Akujärvi, J. (2017). Bernhard Risberg, 1862–1947. In Kleberg, L. (Ed.) Svenskt översättarlexikon. Litteraturbanken.
- Akujärvi, J. (2017). Johan Bergman, 1864–1951. In Kleberg, L. (Ed.) Svenskt översättarlexikon. Litteraturbanken.
- Akujärvi, J. (2017). Marcus Wallenberg, 1774–1833. In Kleberg, L. (Ed.) Svenskt översättarlexikon. Litteraturbanken.
- Akujärvi, J. (2017). Svenska översättningar av Horatius ode 2.16. In Kleberg, L. (Ed.) Svenskt översättarlexikon. Litteraturbanken.
Conference contributions (23)
- Akujärvi, J. (2018). Dissertation translations in the 19th century and earlier.
- Akujärvi, J. (2018). Josephus Thun : Lector, Pastor, Donor, Occasional Poet.
- Akujärvi, J. (2018). Neo-Latin texts and Greek paratexts : On the potential importance of liminary texts for interpretation.
- Akujärvi, J. (2018). Polemics, poetics and the Goths : Uses of Greek (historiography) in texts from the Swedish Empire.
- Akujärvi, J. (2017). Hvad är bästa sättet at öfversätta et Skaldestycke? Om svensk översättning av antik poesi c. 1750–1850.
- Akujärvi, J. (2017). Tillfällesdikter på humanistgrekiska.
- Akujärvi, J. (2016). Greek drama and translating philologists : The case of Sophocles in 19th C Sweden.
- Akujärvi, J. (2016). Hercules at the crossroads : uses of Greek language and myth in the Baltic Sea region.
- Akujärvi, J. (2015). Hyenden under håglösa lärjungars lätja : Om språkundervisning och klassikeröversättning.
- Akujärvi, J. (2015). Women and the early history of translations of ancient literature in Sweden.
- Akujärvi, J. (2014). Xenophon and Aisopos for the Swedish youth : On the earliest printed translations of ancient Greek literature.
- Akujärvi, J. (2013). An epic battle. The struggle over the Swedish Iliad.
- Akujärvi, J. (2012). Suethice. On 19th century Swedish university translations of ancient literature.
- Akujärvi, J. (2012). Suethice. On 19th century Swedish university translations of Greek literature.
- Akujärvi, J. (2011). Amor och Psyche. En episod ur Apuleius Metamorfoser i svensk översättning från 1666.
- Akujärvi, J. (2011). Psyche and Grisilla. On two Swedish 17th century translations.
- Akujärvi, J. (2010). Innovatörer och traditionalister. Om tidiga svenska klassikeröversättares syn på sin roll i det svenska litterära systemet.
- Akujärvi, J. (2010). Innovators and traditionalists. Self-positioning stategies in paratexts to early Swedish translations of the classics.
- Akujärvi, J. (2010). Innovators and traditionalists. Self-positioning stategies in paratexts to early Swedish translations of the classics.
- Akujärvi, J. (2009). Authorial voice and the addressee in Pausanias' Periegesis.
- Akujärvi, J. (2009). Beginning Reading Pausanias' Periegesis. The Periegesis and other works of geographical description.
- Akujärvi, J. (2009). Med egna ord. Översättares paratexter i svenska antiköversättningar.
- Akujärvi, J. (2008). Translated into Swedish. Prefaces, introductions, commentaries and postfaces to Swedish translations of antique literature.
Reviews (10)
- Akujärvi, J. (2013). Look Who’s Talking. Innovation in Voice and Identiy in Hellenistic Epigram. Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für Die Gesamte Klassische Altertumswissenschaft, 85, 100-103.
- Akujärvi, J. (2011). Review of: Religion und Städtekonkurrenz. Sehepunkte, 11.
- Akujärvi, J. (2010). Review of: Translation, Subjectivity and Culture. Sjuttonhundratal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 225-230. Sällskapet för 1700-talsstudier.
- Akujärvi, J. (2009). Review of: Pausanias. Travel Writing in Ancient Greece. Gymnasium. Zeitschrift für Kultur der Antike und Humanistische Bildung, 116, 478-480. Universitätsverlag Winter.
- Akujärvi, J. (2009). Review of: Translation, Subjectivity and Culture in France and England, 1600-1800. BMCR.
- Akujärvi, J. (2008). Review of: Greek Identity and the Athenian Past in Chariton: The Romance of Empire. Groningen 2007 (Ancient narrative suppl. 9). Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Bryn Mawr Commentaries.
- Akujärvi, J. (2008). Review of: Pausanias. Travel Writing in Ancient Greece. London (Duckworth) 2007 (Classical Literature and Society Series). Gymnasium. Zeitschrift für Kultur der Antike und Humanistische Bildung, 116, 478-479. Universitätsverlag Winter.
- Akujärvi, J. (2007). Review of: Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars. Antiquity to the Third Millennium. Oxford 2007. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Bryn Mawr Commentaries.
- Akujärvi, J. (2006). Review of: Describing Greece. Landscape and Literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias. Sehepunkte, 6.
- Akujärvi, J. (2006). Review of: Hôs ephat’, dixerit quispiam, comme disait l’autre... Mécanismes de la citation et de la mention dans les langues de l’Antiquité. Recueil coordonné par Christian Nicolas pour l’Équipe AGREAH. Recherches et Travaux, hors-série nº 15/2006. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Bryn Mawr Commentaries.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (1)
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Researcher, Manager of Research and Research Education
- Greek (Ancient and Byzantine)
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail johanna.akujarviklass.luse
Phone +46 46 222 96 63
Room SOL:A225
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
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