Drafting committee
The drafting committee that deals with applications for research collaboration consists of KB’s research coordinator and those staff at the library with a doctoral degree. The competences of committee members is focused mostly upon the humanities and social sciences.
The following academic subjects are represented within the committee:
- Library and information science
- Book history
- Ethnology
- Cinema studies
- Greek
- History – including cultural and intellectual history
- Industrial economics and management
- History of art
- Latin
- Literature
- Nordic languages
- Slavic languages
Members
Christopher Natzén (research strategist)
Subject: Cinema studies
Research interests: Film music, film history 1900–1940, intermediality
PhD completed: 2010
Elin Andersson
Subject: Latin
Research interests: Latin, medieval Latin, Saint Birgitta, the Bridgettines, church history, paleography
PhD completed: 2011
Lars Björk
Subject: Library and information science
Research interests: Digitalisation, cultural heritage, document theory, materiality
PhD completed: 2015
Love Börjeson (director of KBLab)
Subject: Industrial economics and management
Research interests: Applied language technology, statistical modelling, machine learning, systemic functional grammar, organisational theory
PhD completed: 2011
Patrik Granholm
Subject: Greek
Research interests: Greek, Latin, medieval manuscripts, cataloguing, digitalisation, digital humanities, TEI, IIIF
PhD completed: 2012
Chris Haffenden
Subject: History of science and ideas
Research interests: Modern intellectual history, cultural memory, history of celebrity culture
PhD completed: 2018
Andreas Hedberg
Subject: Literature
Research interests: Textual analysis, literary sociology, nineteenth-century literature, canon studies, critiques of modernity, world literature, narratology
PhD completed: 2012
Lars Ilshammar
Subject: History
Research interests: IT politics, information society, data protection, broadband, computerisation
PhD completed: 2002
Janis Kreslins
Subject: Cultural history
Research interests: History of the spoken and written word, history of seeing, cultures of reading, historical context of KB’s collections
PhD completed: 1989
Mats Rohdin
Subject: Cinema studies
Research interests: Film history, film theory, sport, adverts, Sami films
PhD completed: 2003
Ylva Sommerland
Subject: History of art and visual studies
Research interests: Metadata, visualisations, national bibliographies, queer theory within history of art and visual studies, comics
PhD completed: 2012
Wolfgang Undorf
Subject: Book history
Research interests: Book history, music, history, collections of older historical print, special collections, German, Latin, reading historical handwriting and print styles
PhD completed: 2012
Patrik Åström
Subject: Nordic languages
Research interests: Old Swedish manuscripts, medieval and early modern codicology, paleography
PhD completed: 2003