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.
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• Johansson, I. (2003). Ideología y ética en la novela indigenista : Un estudio sobre Icaza, Alegría y Castellanos. Licentiate thesis.

Articles (5)

• 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. Scandinavia through Sunglasses: Spaces of Cultural Exchange between Southern/Southeastern Europe and Nordic Countries, (Khachaturyan E., & A. Llosa Sanz, eds.). Peter Lang Publishing Group.
• Johansson, I. & Seiler-Holmer, G. (2019). Utmaning eller tillgång? Att undervisa modersmålstalare i språkutbildning på universitetet. Högre utbildning, 9, 60-77. Swednet.
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• 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.
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• 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 (1)

• Johansson, I. (2014). Ökad kontakttid med ämnet : exempel från språkutbildning. Lunds universitet, Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna.

Encyclopaedia entries (2)

• Johansson, I. (2017). Sun Axelsson. Södertörns högskolebibliotek.
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• Johansson, I. & Håkansson, N. (2013). Adolf Hillman, 1844-1933. Södertörns högskolebibliotek.
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Conference contributions (1)

• Smaragdi, M. & Johansson, I. (2018). Images of the North : An imagological analysis of Nordic noir book covers in Greece and Spain.
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