Ylva Lindberg

Biography and Research

Ylva Lindberg is Professor of Education specialising in Language and Literature at the School of Education and Communication. She is a pluri-disciplinary researcher with a background in the humanities and social sciences. She got her Bachelor of Arts degree in Language, Literature and Rhetoric from Uppsala University. Prof. Lindberg pursued her doctoral education in Paris through a joint supervision agreement between Sweden and the Sorbonne University. Her doctoral thesis was written in French and combined linguistic and literary theory in the exploration of how discourses of the scientist and the poet overlapped in multimodal poetic texts of the modernist era in the early 20th century. After her defence in 2002, Prof. Lindberg pursued competence development in library science in Paris, and was partly involved in a distance and e-learning project at La Maison des Sciences de L’homme, and in library work at La Bibliothèque Nordique, also translating several French pre-surrealistic works. 

Prof. Lindberg’s comeback in Sweden started with a lectureship at the Faculty of Library Science at Uppsala University. She became Associate Professor of Literature at Uppsala University in 2013. Her position at Jönköping University has allowed her to pursue pedagogical research towards teacher education. Her research is committed to digital tools and dense media environments in language and literature learning. In parallel, Prof. Lindberg publishes extensively about social and digital conditions for literature circulation on a global scale. She is currently Associate Dean of Research at the School of Education and Communication. 

Ylva Lindberg was appointed Professor of Education specialising in Language and Literature at the School of Education and Communication in February 2020.