Department of Culture and Media Studies

Lecturer in ethnology. Equal Opportunities Representative. Research on storytelling at museums, the relationship between humans - pets. Teaches ethnology and museology.

Professor in ethnology. Research areas include rural studies, ageing identities and e-health. 

Anne Heith, associate professor in Comparative Literature. Research projects: "Making Place in Literature: Meänmaa in Contemporary Tornedalian Texts" and "Other Places in the Teaching of Literature: Sápmi, Meänmaa, and Migrant Cartographies".

I am a Professor of Ethnology since 1999. My main research interests are gender studies, medical humanities and One Health. During the years 2016-2018, I am a member of the board of Swedish Research Council.

Eric Carlsson is an associate professor and senior lecturer in Media and Communication Studies.

Associate professor in Media and Communication. Teacher of excellent degree, and reciever of the Umeå Student Union Pedagogical Award. Producer of the swedish podcast The Media Observers. 

Current dissertation project:
Digital connections: space, bearing and queer orientations

Monograph in Swedish. Swedish title:
Digitala förbindelser: Rum, riktning och queera orienteringar

I am Associate professor (docent) and senior lecturer. My research interests concern narrativity, life stories and international mobility among highly skilled.

PhD in ethnology. Research interests connected to power and identity, with a special focus particularly on gender and class

Associate Professor in literature and senior lecturer at the Department for Culture and Media

I am a senior lecturer in Museology and Art History.

I study contemporary media texts and discourses, media history and history of ideas, as well as sociolinguistics. My current project focuses on "fake news" as narratives.

PhD in Comparative Literature (Uppsala University 2017); currently post doctor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies.