Person

Reader, Manager of Research and Research Education
- Spanish Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail christian.claessonrom.luse
Phone +46 46 222 03 17
Room SOL:L500a
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I am Associate Professor of Spanish with a focus on literary studies and mainly teach Spanish and Latin American literature and film.
In recent years, my research has focused on contemporary Spanish literature, particularly on the political and critical literature published in the wake of Spain’s social and economic crisis. I am the editor of the recently published Narrativas precarias: Crisis y subjetividad en la cultura española actual (2019). I have also worked with comparative literature in Spain--literature written in Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician. Since 2016, I participate in the RJ-funded research program World Literatures: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics (http://worldlit.se), with a project that maps the relationship between language, literature and national identity in the different literatures of Spain.
I received my Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University in 2009, focusing on 19th and 20th century Latin American literature.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Pluriliterary Spain (Det flerlitterära Spanien) (research leader)
Books (2)
- Claesson, C. (2009). The Role of the Author in Juan Carlos Onetti and Juan José Saer. Dissertation.
- Claesson, C. (2002). Narrar la percepción : Un estudio de Nadie nada nunca de Juan José Saer. PERLES (Petits Études Romanes de Lund, Extra Seriem). Licentiate thesis.
Editorships (2)
- Claesson, C. (2022). (Ed.) España comparada : Literatura, lengua y política en la cultura contemporánea. Constelaciones. Editorial Comares.
- Claesson, C. (2019). (Ed.) Narrativas precarias : Crisis y subjetividad en la cultura española actual. Hoja de lata.
Articles (8)
- Claesson, C., Helgesson, S. & Mahmutović, A. (2020). Publication, Circulation and the Vernacular : Dimensions of World Literary Unevenness. Interventions: international journal of postcolonial studies, 22, 301-309. Routledge.
- Claesson, C. (2019). Nongoa da Kirmen Uribe? : On the Belonging of a Basque-Language Writer. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 96, 763-780. Liverpool University Press.
- Claesson, C. (2016). Localizando la política : subjetividad, publicidad y revolución en tres novelas recientes. Kamchatka: Revista de análisis cultural, 363-381. Departamento de Filología Española, Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació, Universitat de València / Programa EDICE.
- Claesson, C. (2012). Hacia una poética del cigarrillo. Contexto, 16, 45-63. Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela.
- Claesson, C. (2010). La conexión Onetti-Saer: la arbitrariedad del narrador en Los adioses y Glosa. Crítica Cultural (Edição especial: Dossiê Juan José Saer), 5, 189-203.
- Claesson, C. (2009). Lyckan är en whisky och en bra deckare som jag inte har läst. Karavan. Föreningen Karavan.
- Claesson, C. (2008). La distancia existencial en Zama. Moderna Språk, CII. Lärarna i moderna språk.
- Claesson, C. (2008). Zidanes melankoli. Psykoanalytisk Tid/Skrift, 22-23.
Book chapters (8)
- Claesson, C. (2022). Introducción : España comparada. In Claesson, C. (Ed.) Constelaciones, España comparada : Literatura, lengua y política en la cultura contemporánea. Editorial Comares.
- Claesson, C. (2022). Vernacular Resistance : Catalan, Basque, and Galician Opposition to Francoist Monolingualism. In Kullberg, C. & Watson, D. (Eds.) Bloomsbury Academic, Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures (pp. 51-80). Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Claesson, C. (2018). One Country, Several Literatures : Towards a Comparative Understanding of Contemporary Literature in Spain. In Helgesson, S., Mörte Alling, A., Wulff, H. & Lindqvist, Y. (Eds.) Stockholm English Studies, World Literatures : Exploring the Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Exchange (pp. 31-41). Stockholm University Press.
- Claesson, C. (2018). Precarious Narratives : Subjectivity in Rosarios Izquierdo’s Diario de campo and Elvira Navarro’s La trajabadora. In Brady, J. & Jeffers, M. L. (Eds.) Shifting Subjectivities in Contemporary Fiction and Film from Spain (pp. 10-36). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Claesson, C. (2017). Rubén Aguilera. In Bernhardsson, K., Bexell, G., Möller, D. & Stenström, J. (Eds.) Årsbok för Lunds universitetshistoriska sällskap, En lundensisk litteraturhistoria : Lunds unversitet som litterärt kraftfält. Makadam förlag.
- Claesson, C. (2015). En busca del sentido: Exceso y crítica social en Karnaval de Juan Francisco Ferré. In Becerra Mayor, D. (Ed.) Convocando al fantasma: Novela crítica en la España actual (pp. 395-420). Tierra de nadie ediciones.
- Claesson, C. (2013). La estela del traslado: lugar y recuerdo en La mayor. In Ilse, L. (Ed.) Juan José Saer: La construcción de una obra (pp. 107-122). Universidad de Sevilla.
- Claesson, C. (2009). El pozo: Escribiendo el autor. Actas del II Congreso de Hispanistas y Lusitanistas Nórdicos. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis.
Conference contributions (1)
Reviews (3)
- Claesson, C. (2022). DAVID BECERRA MAYOR, DESPUÉS DEL ACONTECIMIENTO : EL RETORNO DE LO POLÍTICO EN LA LITERATURA ESPAÑOLA TRAS EL 15-M. BELLATERRA EDICIONS, 2021. 173 PP. Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 49, 83-89. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza.
- Claesson, C. (2009). Där poesin vinner ny terräng. Om Lyrikvännen - På spanska. Sydsvenskan. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
- Claesson, C. (1998). Författaren som delade sig i tjugoåtta berättare. Sydsvenska dagbladet. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
Newspaper articles (5)
- Claesson, C. (2017). El virus del miedo : sobre los asesinatos en Estocolmo. CTXT: Contexto y acción.
- Claesson, C. (2017). Litteraturen speglar dagens spanska splittring. Dagens Nyheter. Dagens Nyheter.
- Claesson, C. (2014). Mario Vargas Llosas kungahyllning döljer Spaniens akuta problem. Dagens Nyheter. Dagens Nyheter.
- Claesson, C. (2014). Så formas den spanska krisen till litteratur. Dagens Nyheter. Dagens Nyheter.
- Claesson, C. & Nils Markus, K. (2013). Den bortkastade tiden (På spaning fyller 100). Kristianstadbladet.
Supervision at Lund University (1)
Administrative
- Manager of Research and Research Education at Spanish Studies
- Member, Board of Section 3, Centre for Languages and Literature
Teaching
Other tasks and qualifications

Reader, Manager of Research and Research Education
- Spanish Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail christian.claessonrom.luse
Phone +46 46 222 03 17
Room SOL:L500a
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20