Person
Researcher
- Comparative Literature
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail oscar.janssonlitt.luse
Phone +46 46 222 49 78
Room SOL:H206
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
My profile in Lund University research portal
My PhD-project concerns questions of literary reception and historiography actualized by literary works that circulate internationally and traverse traditional conceptual borders of genre and media. The projects empirical base is centered on the reception of the English 20th century author Graham Greene, who was internationally active during six decennia and wrote in many genres and media. Furthermore, Greene was a critic, publisher and journalist, active in both the UK, the US and continental Europe. The vast academic reception has almost exclusively focused on Greene as novelist; the variation that has been attributed his authorship primarily denotes that it contains both thrillers and 'Great Novels', and that Greene at times cooperated with filmmakers. But the collected bibliography and Greene's agency in different cultural arenas indicates that his œuvre was produced through and circulated in many different value systems that are not included in the novel or film traditions. By analyzing Greene's international reception through an extensive and non-binary epistemology found in deconstructive historiography and critical feminist sociology, the ambition of the project is partly to make visible the mechanisms behind the homogenization of Greene's œuvre, partly to improve the understanding of interactions between genre, media and value systems in the production and reception of literary works.
Books (1)
Articles (1)
Book chapters (1)
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.
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Teaching
Researcher
- Comparative Literature
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail oscar.janssonlitt.luse
Phone +46 46 222 49 78
Room SOL:H206
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20