Lena Englund
Senior Researcher
My research focuses on autobiographical writing in a variety of contexts, African literature, and migration narratives. I also take an interest in medical humanities and popular culture.
lena.englund@uef.fi | +358 50 576 3854
Publications
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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 -
Celebrity myth-making: from Marilyn M. to Kim K
Englund, Lena. 2023. Celebrity studies. [Published online: 07 Feb 2023]: 1-15 -
Home and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa
Englund, Lena. 2023. African Histories and Modernities. . Palgrave Macmillan -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
From Crisis to Upward Mobility: Urban Informality in Fictions of Lagos and Johannesburg
Englund, Lena. 2022. Nordic journal of African studies. 31: 1-16 -
Resilience and Trauma in Alexandra Fuller's Memoirs
Englund, Lena. 2022. Journal of literature and trauma studies. 2019;8: 1-24 -
The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts
Englund, Lena. 2022. Journal of southern african studies. 48: 843-859