Person

Doctoral Student

Comparative Literature
Centre for Languages and Literature

Contact information

E-mail andreas.tranviklitt.luse

Room SOL:H224

Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund

Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund

Internal post code 20

Andreas Tranvik is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University. His research is primarily focused on literature as it relates to the history of ideas and the history of knowledge. Currently, he is working on a research project about humour and knowledge in the works of the 18th century Danish-Norwegian writer Ludvig Holberg. In addition to this ongoing project, Tranvik has published several scholarly articles in domestic as well as in international contexts, examining the works of authors such as Edward Albee, Kjell Espmark, and August Strindberg.

Principal supervisor: Daniel Möller, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature.

Second supervisor: Johan Östling, Professor of History.

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Publications (* = peer review)

"Intellektualitet som transgression: Strindberg, samhället och de intellektuellas roll", in Strindbergiana: Trettioåttonde samlingen utgiven av Strindbergssällskapet, ed. Cecilia Carlander (forthcoming).
"Temporal provinsialism och svenskt lynne: Kjell Espmark, Verner von Heidenstam och den svenska glömskans historia", Edda: Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning, vol. 110, no. 2 (2023), pp. 103–113. *
"Mellan nationalekonomi och sociologi: August Strindberg som samhällsvetare", Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, vol. 52 [2022], no. 2–3 (2023), pp. 147–167. *
"Dialectic of Two Cultures: Edward Albee, C. P. Snow, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Dramatized Epistemology", Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas (Johns Hopkins University Press), vol. 21, no. 1 (2023), pp. 91–111. *
"Den anakronistiska kunskapen: Anteckningar om Strindberg vid vetandets gränser", Hjärnstorm, no. 150 (2022), pp. 63–69.
"En räv bland igelkottar: Några tankar om Strindberg och vetenskaperna", in Strindbergiana: Trettiosjunde samlingen utgiven av Strindbergssällskapet, ed. Cecilia Carlander (Stockholm: Strindbergssällskapet, 2022), pp. 99–117.

Conference papers

"Epistemologisk nostalgi: Strindberg, Holberg och den förflutna lärdomens lockelse", The 22nd International Strindberg Conference – Strindberg and Memory (arr. by The Strindberg Society and The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities), Rettig House, Stockholm, 31 May–1 June, 2023.
"The Epistemology of the Homecoming: Language, Culture, and Knowledge in Ludvig Holberg's Erasmus Montanus", BSECS 52nd Annual Conference – Homecoming, Return, and Recovery (arr. by British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies), St Hugh's College, Oxford, 4–6 January, 2023.
"Kunskap och komedi: Ludvig Holberg och upplysningens didaktik – Presentation av ett forskningsprojekt", CSS Conference 2022 in Lund and Copenhagen – Nordic Humour in the World (arr. by Centre for Scandinavian Studies Copenhagen-Lund-Hankuk), Lund University and Frederiksbergs Menighedshus, Copenhagen, 24–27 August, 2022.