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: "Reading the world. Indigenous peoples, ecocriticism and literacy".

I am Assistant Professor in Art History & Visual Studies. My research concerns design history, design theory and aspects of modernity, from circa 1850 onwards.

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. 

Johanna Arnesson is a postdoctoral researcher in Media and Communication Studies. Her research includes critical perspectives on promotion, political communication, and popular culture.

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 am a postdoctoral researcher in Art History and Visual Studies. My primary research interests lie in the intersection of visual communication and urban humanities.

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.

Zakayo Kjellström. I am a doctoral student at the department for Culture and Media Studies. My dissertation is on the illegal download of academic litterature.