I am a PhD candidate in linguistics and gender studies. My project focuses on HIV/AIDS representation in Swedish mainstream and queer magazines.
My academic background is rooted in linguistics, literature, and language studies, with a specific focus on Swedish and English. I combine this with a keen interest in gender and queer studies. Specifically, I am interested in critically investigating how language is employed in the media – both new and traditional – to shape discourses around identity. Other academic interests are pop culture, fandom studies, and cultural studies.
I am currently writing my dissertation on how Swedish mainstream and queer media wrote about the HIV/AIDS epidemic during the 1980s. By using critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, I aim to understand how people involved with the epidemic were represented by my sources, with specific focus on representational strategies and agency. You can read more about my dissertation in the research project page.