Critical Storytelling: Experiences of Power Abuse in Academia - Paperback

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

This collection of autobiographical narratives breaks the culture of silence around power abuse in the academic world. It critically examines a destructive side of the scholarly profession and points out pathways for constructive change in the academic workplace.

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).