Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Uppsala University. Her work investigates the intersections of classical literature, literary gender history, and the reception of antiquity in later European thought. She is especially interested in how ancient literary traditions continue to shape modern cultural meaning, aesthetic form, and ethical discourse.

She earned her PhD from the University of Gothenburg in 2012 with a dissertation on Faltonia Betitia Proba’s early Christian Cento. Since then, she has written extensively on classical traditions, late antique Latin poetry, and the afterlives of myth. Her recent monograph, Filomelas förvandlingar: Myten om det outsägliga (Ellerströms, 2024), traces the reception of the Philomela myth and examines how it has articulated the limits of speech and the poetics of traumatic experience.

Schottenius Cullhed currently chairs the board of the Centre for Medical Humanities at Uppsala University, serves on the management team of the interdisciplinary research centre WOMHER, and sits on the board of the Young Academy of Sweden. In the spring term of 2025 she was a visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity.

During her residency at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), she will work on Proba: The First Christian Woman Poet (Oxford University Press), a literary and cultural biography of the fourth-century Roman poet Faltonia Betitia Proba. The book situates Proba’s Cento within the religious and cultural transformations of late antiquity and traces its transmission and reinterpretation across the centuries.

Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed is in residence in the autumn of 2025.
This information is accurate as of the academic year 2025-26.