Person

Researcher
- Comparative Literature
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail oscar.janssonlitt.luse
Phone +46 46 222 49 78
Room SOL:H226a
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I'm a research fellow in literary studies, primarily focused on 20th century literary history, translation and media theory. I teach course in children's literature and literary theory.
My dissertation is based in literary historiography and aesthetics of reception, and concerns interactions between genre- and media systems in the 20th century. Focus lies on examining how Graham Greene has come to be understood Great Britain, the US, France and Sweden, and how his writings reflect wider processes in 20th century literature. I've also written about Virginia Woolfs novels, ideology in contemporary American novels, the rhetoric of Swedish national romanticism, and functions of parody in the animated tv-show Futurama. I am co-editor of The Geschlecht Complex, a volume that explores untranslatability, genre and gender.
I'm an alumni of The School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. In the spring of 2019 I was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Reception Study, KU Leuven.
Research
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Books (1)
Editorships (1)
Articles (3)
- Berglund, K., Jansson, O. & Rahm, L. (2021). Digital humaniora, datorisering och litteraturvetenskap i en digitaliserad värld. Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, 51, 266-284. Föreningen för utgivande av Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap.
- Jansson, O. (2021). Maskinkroppens gräns : Våld, immunitet och medieakologiska aggregationer i The Last of Us. Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, 51, 153-171. Föreningen för utgivande av Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap.
- Jansson, O. (2020). The Resonance of Conflict : Genre and Politics in the Transatlantic Reception of The Quiet American. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, 47, 533-551. Academic Printing and Publishing.
Book chapters (2)
- Jansson, O. (2022). Collapsing the Gender/Genre Distinction : On Transgressions of Category in Woolf's Orlando. In Jansson, O. & LaRocca, D. (Eds.) The Geschlecht Complex : Addressing Untranslatable Aspects of Gender, Genre and Ontology (pp. 141-169). Bloomsbury Academic.
- Jansson, O. (2017). Mellan kartbild och myt : Runebergs nationalromantik. In Hessérus, M. & Luthersson, P. (Eds.) Geopolitik : tretton försök (pp. 41-48). Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse för allmännyttiga ändamål.
Prefaces (3)
- Jansson, O. (2018). Efterskrift : Det som binder den språkliga klyvningen. In Chemnitz, M. & O. Svensson (översättare), M. (Eds.) Innan april (pp. 69-75). Chromata.
- Jansson, O. (2016). Förord : om Den stillsamme amerikanen. In Greene, G. & Lundblad (översättare), J. (Eds.) Den stillsamme amerikanen. Modernista.
- Jansson, O. (2016). Förord : om Vår man i Havanna. In Greene, G. & Lundbland (översättare), J. (Eds.) Vår man i Havanna. Modernista.
Conference contributions (1)
Newspaper articles (1)
Teaching

Researcher
- Comparative Literature
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail oscar.janssonlitt.luse
Phone +46 46 222 49 78
Room SOL:H226a
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20