Lena Englund
Academy Research Fellow
School of Humanities, Philosophical Faculty
[email protected] | +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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From Rockstar Politician To Celebrity Influencer: Former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin In Representational And Presentational Media
Englund, Lena. 2024. Persona studies. 10: 17-31 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Grieving Bodily Loss in Celebrity Illness Memoir
Englund, Lena. 2024. Illness crisis and loss. [Epub ahead of print 10 Dec 2024]: 1-15 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
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 -
Migration as resistance and compromise: From cosmopolitan ideals to postmigrant beginnings in The Good Immigrant and The Good Immigrant USA
Englund, Lena. 2024. Literature, critique, and empire today. [Epub ahead of print 28 Nov 2024]: 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 -
Noni Jabavu, A Stranger at Home, with an introduction by Makhosazana Xaba and Athambile Masola. Cape Town: Tafelberg (pb R370 – 978 0 624 08936 0). 2023, 228 pp.
Englund, Lena. 2024. Africa. 94: 616-618 B1 Non-refereed journal articles -
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 -
Telling all yet revealing nothing: Reality memoir as extension of TV persona
Englund, Lena. 2024. Journal of popular television. 12: 241-256 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Celebrity myth-making: from Marilyn M. to Kim K
Englund, Lena. 2023. Celebrity studies. 2024; 15: 367-381 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research