Paula Henrikson

Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS.
Professor of Literature, Uppsala University

Paula Henrikson is Professor of Literature at Uppsala University. She received her Ph.D. in 2004,
held appointments as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2006 to 2008 (Swedish Research Council)
and as a Research Fellow at the Swedish Academy from 2009 to 2013 (Knut and Alice Wallenberg
Foundation). Since 2014 she is a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow (Swedish Foundation for Humanities
and Social Sciences) at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study and the Department of Literature
at Uppsala University.

Her field of research is Swedish literature in the long 19th century with a special focus on romanticism,
classicism, cultural memory, and (the history of) textual criticism. In her current work she explores 
Swedish classicism and philhellenism in the romantic period. Among her publications are the books
Dramatikern Stagnelius (2004), Textkritisk utgivning (2007), and Detta tryckpapperstidevarv: Litterär
editionshistoria i Sverige under det långa 1800-talet (forthcoming 2018); critical editions of works by
Erik Johan Stagnelius and Carl Jonas Love Almqvist; as well as the edited volumes Geschichte der
Edition in Skandinavien (ed. with C. Janss, 2013), Kladd, utkast, avskrift: Studier av litterära tillkomst-
processer (ed. with J. Viklund, 2015), and Textkritik som analysmetod (ed. with M. Malm and P. Söder-
lund, 2017).

This information is accurate as of the academic year 2018-19.