Director of studies
Director of studies, Latin

Senior Lecturer
- Spanish Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Director of Studies
- Greek (Ancient and Byzantine)
- Greek (Modern Greek)
- Latin
- Spanish Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail ingela.johanssonrom.luse
Phone +46 46 222 89 22
Room SOL:L500b
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I am a Senior Lecturer of Spanish Studies at the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University, where I mainly teach courses in Spanish language literature but also in didactics and translation.
In my dessertation, El personaje femenino de la novela indigenista (2008), I examined the female characters in some of the central Latin American indigenista novels. In my current investigation, the gender perspective is still present, but the object of study has shifted.
My field of study is now primarily literary transmission and translation. Which Spanish language literature reaches the Swedish reader and vice versa? In cooperation with Marianna Smaragdi, I currently investigate translation between Greek, Spanish and Swedish, and we are planning a project on the introduction and translation to Swedish of protest songs from Greece, Chile and Spain.
Apart from Spanish language literature, I am also involved with questions concerning pedagogic and didactic development.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
In my dissertation, El personaje femenino de la novela indigenista (2008), I examined the female characters in some of the central Latin American indigenista novels. In my current investigation, the gender perspective is still present, but the object of study has shifted.
Since 2015, my main focus has been literary transmission. What Spanish and Latin American fiction reaches the Swedish reader? The reverse relation is also subject to my investigation, i. e. the transmission of Swedish literature in the Spanish speaking world. The field of literary transmission comprises studies of institutions such as editorial houses, journals, schools and universities, and of agents such as literary introducers and translators. The field is anchored in sociology of literature, theories of world literature and canon formation being central. I am currently conducting a study on which fictional literature from the Spanish speaking world is being used in Swedish university courses in Spanish, and, simultaneously, I am preparing a project, in cooperation with a colleague from Modern Greek, Marianna Smaragdi, on literary transmission between Sweden, Greece and Spain.
Additionally, I dedicate time to pedagogical and didactic issues, and, at the moment, I am doing an investigation on L1-students’ experiences of studying their mother tongue together with L2-students in our courses in foreign languages.
Books (2)
- Johansson, I. (2008). El personaje femenino de la novela indigenista. Études Romanes de Lund, 80. Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds universitet. Dissertation.
- Johansson, I. (2003). Ideología y ética en la novela indigenista : Un estudio sobre Icaza, Alegría y Castellanos. Licentiate thesis.
Articles (5)
- Johansson, I. (2021). Saliendo de las sombras : Sobre la selección literaria en los estudios universitarios de español en Suecia con enfoque de género. Tejuelo. Revista de didáctica de la lengua y la literatura, 249-280. Universidad de Extremadura.
- Johansson, I. & Seiler-Holmer, G. (2019). Utmaning eller tillgång? Att undervisa modersmålstalare i språkutbildning på universitetet. Högre utbildning, 9, 60-77. Swednet.
- Johansson, I. (2016). Puertas abiertas, puertas cerradas : Un estudio de la sección de español de la Universidad de Lund como mediador literario entre 1970 y 2015. Moderna Sprak, 110, 1-20. Lärarna i moderna språk.
- Johansson, I. (2012). Ökad kontakttid med ämnet – exempel från språkutbildning. Högre utbildning, 2, 123-128. Swednet.
- Johansson, I. (2012). La nostalgia del pasado en la novela indigenista. Un estudio de los personajes femeninos de Raza de bronce, Huasipungo y El mundo es ancho y ajeno. Contexto, 16, 103-122. Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela.
Book chapters (3)
- Johansson, I. & Smaragdi, M. (accepted/in press). Sweden in the Eyes of the Southern European Reader : Translation and reception of Swedish fiction in Greece and Spain between 2000 and 2017. In Khachaturyan, E. & Llosa Sanz, A. (Eds.) Scandinavia through Sunglasses: Spaces of Cultural Exchange between Southern/Southeastern Europe and Nordic Countries, (Khachaturyan E., & A. Llosa Sanz, eds.), Scandinavia through Sunglasses: Spaces of Cultural Exchange between Southern/Southeastern Europe and Nordic Countries. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Johansson, I., Lindberg, Y., Cedergren, M., Edfeldt, C. & Schwartz, C. (2020). Vilken litteratur (o)synliggörs inom romanska språk i svensk högre utbildning och forskning?. In Lindberg, Y. & Svensson, A. (Eds.) Litteraturdidaktik : Språkämnen i samverkan (pp. 200-228). Natur och kultur.
- Johansson, I. (2014). Ökad kontakttid med ämnet : exempel från språkutbildning. In Maurits, A. & Mårtensson, K. (Eds.) Högskolepedagogisk reflektion och praktik : proceedings från humanistiska och teologiska fakulteternas pedagogiska inspirationskonferens 2012. Lunds universitet, Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna.
Encyclopaedia entries (2)
- Johansson, I. (2017). Sun Axelsson. In Kleberg, L. (Ed.) Svenskt översättarlexikon. Södertörns högskolebibliotek.
- Johansson, I. & Håkansson, N. (2013). Adolf Hillman, 1844-1933. In Kleberg, L. (Ed.) Svenskt översättarlexikon. Södertörns högskolebibliotek.
Conference contributions (1)
Administrative
- Director of Studies at Greek (Ancient and Byzantine), Greek (Modern Greek), Latin and Spanish Studies
- Member, Board of Section 3, Centre for Languages and Literature
Teaching

Senior Lecturer
- Spanish Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Director of Studies
- Greek (Ancient and Byzantine)
- Greek (Modern Greek)
- Latin
- Spanish Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail ingela.johanssonrom.luse
Phone +46 46 222 89 22
Room SOL:L500b
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20