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Andreas Tranvik is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature since 2022. His research is primarily focused on literary history at the intersection of the history of ideas, intellectual history, and the history of knowledge. More specifically, he works on epistemic and epistemological matters in early modern and modern drama, ranging from comedies in the 1700s to chamber plays in the 1900s. Currently, he is finishing a dissertation about the 18th-century Danish-Norwegian playwright Ludvig Holberg, which is intended to become the first-ever comprehensive monograph on Holberg written in Swedish.

In the summer of 2024, Tranvik was a sponsored participant at the School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University. During the fall of the same year, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Bergen.

In 2026, he will undertake two shorter research stays—one at the the University of Chicago in the spring, and one at Aarhus University in the fall.