Lena Englund
Senior Researcher
School of Humanities, Philosophical Faculty
lena.englund@uef.fi | +358 50 576 3854
My research focuses on autobiographical narratives in a variety of contexts. I also take an interest in medical humanities and popular culture.
Publications
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Migration and Mental Health in Two Contemporary Memoirs
Englund, Lena. 2024. Journal of medical humanities. [Epub ahead of print 22 July]: 1-14 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Moving Away and Traveling Toward: Urban Mobility in Aminatta Forna’s Autobiographical Writing
Englund, Lena. Teoksessa: García, Patricia; Toivanen, Anna-Leena(toim.) , 2024. Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism. s. 155-173. Palgrave Macmillan A3 Book section, Chapters in research books -
Response to Marzia Milazzo’s article “ ‘The Hand That Tried to Feed You’: Capture, White Saviourism, and the Dehumanisation of Dambudzo Marechera in Flora Veit-Wild’s They Called You Dambudzo”
Englund, Lena. 2024. Matatu. [EPub ahead of print 09 Sep 2024]: 1-26 B1 Non-refereed journal articles -
Storying Contemporary Migration: Representation, Aspirations, Advocacy
Englund, Lena. 2024. . . Palgrave Macmillan C1 Book -
Celebrity myth-making: from Marilyn M. to Kim K
Englund, Lena. 2023. Celebrity studies. 2024; 15: 367-381 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Home and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa
Englund, Lena. 2023. African Histories and Modernities. . Palgrave Macmillan C1 Book -
Relational Resilience in The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After and Call Me American: A Memoir
Englund, Lena. 2023. English studies in Africa. 66: 68-80 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Writing against white fragility in Haji Mohamed Dawjee’s Sorry, Not Sorry: Experiences of a Brown Woman in a White South Africa
Englund, Lena. 2023. Safundi: the journal of south african and american comparative studies. 24: 2-22 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Against Color-Blindness: Anglo-American Trajectories of Racism in Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and White Rage
Englund, Lena. 2022. Journal of black studies. 53: 824-844 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Autobiography as Archival Act: Reckoning with Personal and Political Pasts in They Called You Dambudzo and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Englund, Lena. 2022. Life writing. 2023; 20: 509-526 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research