Critical Storytelling: Experiences of Power Abuse in Academia - Paperback

by Julie Hansen (Volume Editor), Ingela Nilsson (Volume Editor)

What does power abuse look and feel like in the academic world? How does it affect university faculty, students, education and research? What can we do to counteract and prevent power abuse? These questions are addressed in this collection of autobiographical poems, essays and illustrations about academia. The contributors reflect on individual experiences as well as underlying institutional structures, providing original perspectives on bullying, sexual harassment, discrimination, and other forms of power abuse in academic workplaces. They share their stories in order to break the culture of silence around power abuse in academia and point out pathways for constructive change.

Author Biography

Julie Hansen Ph.D. (2000), University of Michigan, is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages at Uppsala University. She has taught comparative literature, Slavic literatures and translation studies. Her research interests include memory studies and literary multilingualism. She is co-editor of the volume Living through Literature: Essays in Memory of Omry Ronen (Uppsala Studies on Eastern Europe, 2019).

Ingela Nilsson, Ph.D. (2001), Gothenburg University, is Professor of Greek and Byzantine Studies at Uppsala University since 2010. Her research interests include all forms of narration and literary adaptation. Her most recent monograph is Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The Authorial Voice of Constantine Manasses (CUP, 2021).