Director of studies

My current research interests include history and remediation in contemporary cinema, (super-) popular national European films, international awards and circulation, marginalized identities in mainstream cinema, and participatory cultures.

I am also dedicated to facilitating international research exchange relating to Swedish and Scandinavian cinema, including the following inititatives:

Co-founder and primary editor of Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, published by Intellect since 2011.

Co-founder and inaugural co-chair of SCMS' Scandinavian Special Interest Group, 2014-15.

Initiator and organizer of Lübeck Film Studies Colloquium, since 2014.

Books (1)

• Marklund, A. (2004). Upplevelser av svensk film : en kartläggning av genrer inom svensk film under åren 1985–2000. Critica Litterarum Lundensis, 7. Comparative Literature. Dissertation.

Editorships (4)

• Marklund, A. (2015). (Ed.) Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 5. Intellect Ltd..
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• Marklund, A. (2015). (Ed.) Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 5(1). Intellect Ltd..
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• Marklund, A. & Larsson, M. (2010). (Eds.) Swedish Film : An Introduction and Reader. Nordic Academic Press.
• Marklund, A. & Tybjerg, C. (2010). (Eds.) Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 1. Intellect Ltd..
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Articles (9)

• Marklund, A., Nordfjord, B. & Wennerscheid, S. (2021). Editorial. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 11, 3-9. Intellect Ltd..
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• Marklund, A. (2019). Foreign Influences on Nordic (Noir) Borderlands. European Journal of Scandinavian Studies, 49, 178-196. De Gruyter.
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• Marklund, A. (2018). No country for old men : utopian stories of welfare society’s shortcomings in A Man Called Ove and The 100-Year-Old Man. Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, 10, 48-55. Co-Action Publishing.
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• Marklund, A. (2016). On paratexts : An unsettling but important film about ... Short Film Studies, 6, 113-117. Intellect Ltd..
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• Marklund, A. (2013). Dark memories in the provincial worlds of Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander and Federico Fellini’s Amarcord. IMAGES: The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication. Collegium Europaeum Gnesnense.
• Marklund, A. (2012). Fetch! Go away! Sit! – Feeling at home in contemporary Sweden. Short Film Studies, 3, 53-56. Intellect Ltd..
• Marklund, A. (2012). Skandinaviska filmer i världen. Om utlandssekvensers betydelse i Niels Arden Oplevs "Män som hatar kvinnor" (2009), Susanne Biers "Hævnen" (2010) och Sara Johnsens "Upperdog" (2009). Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia, 77-94. Versita.
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• Marklund, A. (2010). Old fangs into new viewers: the American poster to Let the Right One In. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 1, 51-54. Intellect Ltd..
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• Marklund, A. (2008). Can Anyone Help These Men? A Portrait of Men in Successful Contemporary Scandinavian Cinema. Film International, 6, 50-58. Intellect Ltd..

Book chapters (12)

• Marklund, A. (2018). Stories with Queer Identities. In Molloy, M., Nielsen, M. & Shriver-Rice, M. (Eds.) ReFocus: The International Directors Series, ReFocus: The Films of Susanne Bier (pp. 97-112). Edinburgh University Press.
• Marklund, A. (2017). Josef Fares and the lack of usable verbs. In Laine, K., Nyyssönen, P., Salmi, H. & Seppälä, J. (Eds.) Noin seitsemännen taiteen poika : Kirjoituksia elokuvasta ja muista taiteista: onnittelukirje Henry Baconille (pp. 82-87). Faros.
• Marklund, A. (2016). It Started with a Kiss : Sexuality and Swedish Film in 1951. In Björklund, E. & Larsson, M. (Eds.) Swedish Cinema and the Sexual Revolution : Critical Essays (pp. 21-34). McFarland.
• Marklund, A. (2014). Arthousefilm på mainstreambiografen? SF Bios Smultronstället. In Wallengren, A.-K. & Hedling, E. (Eds.) Den nya svenska filmen : kultur, kriminalitet & kakofoni (pp. 55-73). Bokförlaget Atlantis.
• Marklund, A. (2013). Zwischen Himmel und Hölle: Ein Bündel Skandinavischer Filme in der Arthaus-Collection – von Antichrist bis Wie im Himmel. In Krysztofiak, M. (Ed.) Transkulturelle Identität undûbersetzungsmodelle skandinavischer Literatur (pp. 183-196). Peter Lang Publishing Group.
• Marklund, A. (2011). The Shining in Jotunheimen Der Norwegische Berg-Slasher Fritt vilt (2006) und die Voraussetzungen für einen lokalen Horrorfilm-Zyklus. In van Bebber, J. (Ed.) Dawn of an Evil Millennium Horror/Kultur im neuen Jahrtausend (pp. 335-344). Büchner-Verlag.
• Marklund, A. (2010). Beyond Swedish Borders: On Foreign Places in Swedish Films. In Hedling, E., Hedling, O. & Jönsson, M. (Eds.) Regional Aesthetics : Locating Swedish Media (pp. 81-104). National Library of Sweden.
• Marklund, A. (2010). Distinctive Films in Mainstream Cinema: Suzanne Osten's Bröderna Mozart. In Marklund, A. & Larsson, M. (Eds.) Swedish Film: An Introduction and Reader (pp. 279-283). Nordic Academic Press.
• Marklund, A. (2010). Distinctive films in mainstream cinema: Yrrol & Tic Tac. In Marklund, A. & Larsson, M. (Eds.) Swedish Film: An introduction and Reader (pp. 287-291). Nordic Academic Press.
• Marklund, A. (2009). Stirb langsam! Död, sönderfall och kulturellt minne i ny tysk populärfilm. In Askander, M. (Ed.) Förgängligheter. Sekel Bokförlag.
• Marklund, A. (2008). John Nilsson visar film. In Hedling, E. & Jönsson, M. (Eds.) Välfärdsbilder : Svensk film utanför biografen (pp. 334-349). Statens ljud- och bildarkiv.
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• Marklund, A. (2006). Fönster för svensk film. In Hedling, E. & Wallengren, A.-K. (Eds.) Solskenslandet: Svensk film på 2000-talet (pp. 157-170). Bokförlaget Atlantis.

Encyclopaedia entries (1)

• Marklund, A. & Laine, K. (2017). Scandinavian Cinema. In Gabbard, K. (Ed.) Oxford Bibliographies : Cinema and Media Studies. Oxford University Press.
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Reports (1)

• Marklund, A. (2011). Utvärdering av Region Skånes filmkulturella verksamhet.
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Reviews (1)

• Marklund, A. (2012). Review of "Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia. Fiction, Film and Social Change". European Journal of Scandinavian Studies, 42, 245-248. De Gruyter.

Articles in specialist publications and popular press (1)

• Shahbaz, P., Marklund, A., Toft Hansen, K., Mikos, L. & Tabani, M. (2017). Forget La La Land – best foreign language Oscar nominees show the true diversity of cinema. The Conversation.
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• Director of Studies at Creative Writing Program, Film Studies and Theory and Practice of Theatre
• Member, Board of Section 2, Centre for Languages and Literature

• FIVA10, Film Studies: Level 1 and 2
• SASH03, Swedish Film
• SASH55, Introduction to Scandinavian Culture and Society