Photo: Cato Lein

Research interests

Swedish 18th and 19th century, the turn of the century 1900. Rhetoric, maecenats, gender questions, queer readings, theatre, film, sociology of literature.

Carina Burman is an author and literary scholar. She is connected to the department of Literature as “docent” (associate professor) and works as a writer. In the autumn of 2011 her biography of the Swedish actor Gösta Ekman senior (1890-1938) will be published.

Burman has published eight novels. Some of them are translated into German, Polish and English. As a literary scholar, Burman has concentrated on early modern Scandinavian literature, often by women. She wrote her doctoral thesis on the eloquence of Johan Henric Kellgren (1751-1795), and has published two biographies: Bremer. En biografi (2001) and K.J. En biografi över Klara Johanson (2007). She is the main author of the Swedish-Finnish literary history, Finlands svenska litteraturhistoria (1999) and has spent time as a visiting researcher in Turku, Pisa and Wolfenbüttel. She is life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is married with three children.

See also:

CV (in Swedish)

List of publications (in Swedish)