CSS ledningsgrupp

Lund University 

Rikard Loman is a senior lecturer in Literary Studies with a specialization in drama and theatre at Lund University’s Centre for Languages and Literature. His scholarly work centers on meaning‑making and comprehension within aesthetic and performative communication, especially as it emerges in theatre and staged performance. A major strand of his research examines the work of Ingmar Bergman as a theatre director. His latest book about Bergman, Funkisregi (2022), analyzes his formative years and his most significant productions as artistic director of Malmö City Theatre (1952–1958).

Loman’s broader research approach is grounded in drama and performance analysis, often exploring how theatrical events generate meaning both artistically and socially. He is particularly interested in the relationship between theatre, memory, and history (with a particular focus on the Nordic countries); the sociological dimensions of theatre (including what theatrical practices reveal about societies); cultural identity, and audience engagement, which he identifies as one of the most overlooked but essential aspects of the theatrical experience.

rikard.loman@litt.lu.se

COO, Lund University 

In his research on Romanticism and Modernism, Anders Mortensen has devoted himself to the fundamental questions of literary values and power. Through Litteraturens värden and a dozen peer-reviewed research articles from 2003 and on, he has introduced the research field of Economic Criticism in Sweden, most recently (2025); in 2027 he will publish a major monograph on Romantic Economy. He has published a large number of articles and books on Gunnar Ekelöf, in Autumn 2025 together with Daniel Möller and Anders Olsson a critical edition of Gunnar Ekelöf: Samlade dikter, 4 vol., in the series Classics published by the Swedish Academy.

As one of the founding members of the Centre for Scandinavian Studies in 2010 and COO of the organisation since 2012, he conducts a number of collaborations with Scandinavian scholars around Europe and has been involved in leading nine of the centre's international conferences in Lund, Copenhagen, London and Edinburgh.

anders.mortensen@litt.lu.se

Lund University 

Anna Estera Mrozewicz /mrɔˈzɛvit͡s/, dr. habil., PhD, is a Scandinavianist and associate professor of film studies at Lund University. Before joining Lund in 2022, she held positions as an assistant professor (2009–2019) and associate professor (2019–2023) of film studies at the Department of Film, Media and Audiovisual Arts at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics (NorS) at the University of Copenhagen from 2010 to 2012 (funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark), and in the academic year of 2021–2022, she was a visiting Fulbright scholar and associate professor at the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Mrozewicz has published books and articles on Danish and Nordic films, television series, and literature. Her first monograph, Tracing Ekphrasis. Visual Arts in the Writings of Contemporary Danish Authors (Śladami ekfrazy. Duńscy pisarze współcześni wobec sztuk wizualnych, Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 2010), was based on her PhD thesis defended in 2008 at the Department of Scandinavian Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She achieved her habilitation in 2018 on the basis of her second monograph, Beyond Eastern Noir: Reimagining Russia and Eastern Europe in Nordic Cinemas (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), which illuminates representations of Russia and the Eastern European countries neighbouring with Scandinavia across the Baltic Sea in post-1989 films and television series.

Since 2020, Mrozewicz’s research and teaching have explored the intersections of ecocriticism, ecocinema, and sustainable film and television production, with a particular focus on the Nordic countries and the Baltic Sea region, including the Blue Humanities perspectives and the role of the Baltic Sea in the region’s audiovisual culture. Situating her work within the larger context of ecocinema, she organised conferences, expert workshops for students, and research seminars on environmental film and sustainable screen media, including the event series The Show Must Go Green (Lund University & University of Copenhagen, 2024–2025) and two international conferences: Scandinavian Screen Mobility: Sustainability, Regulation, and the Geography of Media Production (Lund University, 2025, together with Anders Grønlund) and Rethinking the Rural North through Environmental Literature, Film and TV (University of Copenhagen, 2023, together with Sophie Wennerscheid).

Mrozewicz is a member of the international research network New Geographies of Scandinavian Studies (funded in 2019–2024 by the Independent Research Fund Denmark), which examines how Scandinavian Studies and Scandinavia’s role have been reshaped by geopolitical developments in Europe since the Cold War, and encourages international collaboration among scholars of Scandinavian Studies across the Baltic Sea region and East-Central Europe. Mrozewicz is also coordinating (together with Petar Mitric, UCPH) the research network Screening Europe: The State of Polycrisis in the European Audiovisual Industry, funded (2023–2026) by the Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES), which brings together researchers from Lund University, Malmö University, and the University of Copenhagen.

anna.mrozewicz@litt.lu.se

Lund University

Robert Zola Christensen is a docent in Scandinavian Studies at Lund University, where his research encompasses Scandinavian languages and literatures in a comparative and cultural-historical perspective. He has published more than thirty peer‑reviewed articles and book chapters, as well as several monographs, addressing central topics within Nordic language, literature, and cultural history.

Since 2011, Christensen has served on the steering committee of the Centre for Scandinavian Studies (CSS) at Lund University, contributing to research development, international collaboration, and interdisciplinary initiatives in Nordic humanities. He has previously held academic positions as External Lecturer at the University of Copenhagen (1992–2000) and as Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Southern Denmark in Kolding (2001–2004). From 2021 to 2024, he was on leave from Lund University while serving as Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea.

robert.zola_christensen@nordlund.lu.se

Amanuensis, Lund University

Mathilda Lindmark is a student in the Master’s Programme: Literature–Culture–Media, Scandinavian Studies, at Lund University. Lindmark's master thesis, "kära hjärtanes HÖR INGEN MIG”: Självreflexivitet och genrearv i Ellen Nordmarks Epos (2025), examines how the Swedish poet Ellen Nordmark’s Epos (2024), through its self-reflexivity, multilingualism, posthumanism, and (critique of) digitality, demonstrates the potential of the epic as a dynamic and contemporary literary form.

mathilda.lindmark@sol.lu.se