Uppsala University

Jenny Björklund

Jenny Björklund is Professor of Gender Studies at Uppsala University. Her research interests include representations of motherhood and family, queer theory, non-motherhood/childlessness, and reproduction in relation to climate change.

Maja Bodin

Maja Bodin is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Medical Humanities at Uppsala University. She is currently working on a study about parents who regret having children, where ideals of good motherhood stands out as an important theme.

Margaretha Fahlgren

Margaretha Fahlgren, Senior professor, Dept of Literature, Uppsala University. My research interests are narratives of motherhood in contemporary literature.

Lisa Grahn

Lisa Grahn is a PhD student at the Department of Literature at Uppsala University. She is writing a dissertation about the theme of motherhood in the works of the Swedish author Sara Lidman.

Jules Kielmann

Jules Kielmann is currently working on a PhD-thesis on gender, nation and authorship in the early 19th-century writer Amalie von Helvig.

Daniela Lillhannus

Daniela Lillhannus is a PhD student at the Department of Literature at Uppsala University.

Elina Nilsson

Elina Nilsson is a Lecturer in Gender Studies at Uppsala University. Her PhD research focused on transnational commercial surrogacy in Thailand and her research interests include assisted reproduction, family and kinship, and global intimacies.

Magdalena Rozenberg

Magdalena Rozenberg is a PhD student at the Department of Literature at Uppsala University.

Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed

Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed is Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Sara Sylvén

MD, post doc researcher at the Dep of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Uppsala University. My research focus is psychiatric illness during pregnancy and the postpartum period.