Lena Englund

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

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

From Crisis to Upward Mobility: Urban Informality in Fictions of Lagos and Johannesburg

Englund, Lena. 2022. Nordic journal of African studies. 31: 1-16 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research

Resilience and Trauma in Alexandra Fuller's Memoirs

Englund, Lena. 2022. Journal of literature and trauma studies. 2019;8: 1-24 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research

The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts

Englund, Lena. 2022. Journal of southern african studies. 48: 843-859 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research

The afterlives of death: gratitude and gratefulness in end-of-life writing by Jenny Diski and Oliver Sacks

Englund, Lena. 2022. Mortality. 2023; 28: 529-542 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research

Writing against colonialism in South African memoir

Englund, Lena. 2022. Journal of postcolonial writing. 2023; 59: 72-85 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research

'Dispatcher took me places I was not meant to go' - Embodied Placemaking in Mark Gevisser's Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir

Englund, Lena. 2021. Literary geographies. 7: 173-188 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research

Narrating a Nation Left Behind: The Innocent Child in Two Novels of Zimbabwe

Englund, Lena. 2021. Journal of southern african studies. [Epub ahead of print 2 Aug 2021]: 1-13 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research

South African Autobiography as Subjective History: Making Concessions to the Past

Englund, Lena. 2021. African Histories and Modernities. . Palgrave Macmillan C1 Book

Temporalities of (Re)Naming: The Zimbabwean City Past and Present in Petina Gappah's Rotten Row

Englund, Lena. 2021. Literary geographies. 7: 76-89 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research

The HIV/AIDS epidemic revisited in times of COVID-19: advocating for responsibility and rights in South African writing

Englund, Lena. 2021. Safundi: the journal of south african and american comparative studies. 22: 262-279 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research

(Un)dignified migration: Representations of the refugee in Helon Habila's Travellers

Englund, Lena. 2020. Crossings. 11: 137-151 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research

Contemporary representations of migration in African writing

Englund, Lena. Teoksessa: Laine, Jussi P; Moyo, Inocent; Nshimbi, Christopher Changwe(toim.) , 2020. Expanding Boundaries: Borders, Mobilities and the Future of Europe-Africa Relations. s. 187-199. Routledge B2 Book section

Toward postmigrant realities in Leila Aboulela's Elsewhere, Home

Englund, Lena. 2020. Journal of commonwealth literature. [First Published June 17, 2020]: 1-17 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research

Where the Past and the Present Intersect: Memory and Regret in Doris Lessing's Going Home, Under My Skin and Alfred and Emily

Englund, Lena. Teoksessa: Kuortti, Joel; Ruokkeinen, Sirkku(toim.) , 2020. Movement and Change in Literature, Language, and Society. s. 249-265. Academia Verlag B3 Non-refereed conference proceedings

Re-examining settler discourse in Alexandra Fuller's autobiographical writing

Englund, Lena. 2018. Scrutiny2. 23: 73-87 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research

Memoir in Transit: Whiteness, Displacement and Journalism in Peter Godwin's Autobiographical Writing

Englund, Lena. 2017. Åbo Akademi University Press G4 Doctoral dissertation (monograph)

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From Rockstar Politician To Celebrity Influencer: Former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin In Representational And Presentational Media

Grieving Bodily Loss in Celebrity Illness Memoir

Migration and Mental Health in Two Contemporary Memoirs

Migration as resistance and compromise: From cosmopolitan ideals to postmigrant beginnings in The Good Immigrant and The Good Immigrant USA

Moving Away and Traveling Toward: Urban Mobility in Aminatta Forna’s Autobiographical Writing

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.

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”

Storying Contemporary Migration: Representation, Aspirations, Advocacy

Celebrity myth-making: from Marilyn M. to Kim K

Home and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa

Relational Resilience in The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After and Call Me American: A Memoir

Writing against white fragility in Haji Mohamed Dawjee’s Sorry, Not Sorry: Experiences of a Brown Woman in a White South Africa

Against Color-Blindness: Anglo-American Trajectories of Racism in Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and White Rage

Autobiography as Archival Act: Reckoning with Personal and Political Pasts in They Called You Dambudzo and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

From Crisis to Upward Mobility: Urban Informality in Fictions of Lagos and Johannesburg

Resilience and Trauma in Alexandra Fuller's Memoirs

The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts

The afterlives of death: gratitude and gratefulness in end-of-life writing by Jenny Diski and Oliver Sacks

Writing against colonialism in South African memoir

'Dispatcher took me places I was not meant to go' - Embodied Placemaking in Mark Gevisser's Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir

Narrating a Nation Left Behind: The Innocent Child in Two Novels of Zimbabwe

South African Autobiography as Subjective History: Making Concessions to the Past

Temporalities of (Re)Naming: The Zimbabwean City Past and Present in Petina Gappah's Rotten Row

The HIV/AIDS epidemic revisited in times of COVID-19: advocating for responsibility and rights in South African writing

(Un)dignified migration: Representations of the refugee in Helon Habila's Travellers

Contemporary representations of migration in African writing

Toward postmigrant realities in Leila Aboulela's Elsewhere, Home

Where the Past and the Present Intersect: Memory and Regret in Doris Lessing's Going Home, Under My Skin and Alfred and Emily

Re-examining settler discourse in Alexandra Fuller's autobiographical writing

Memoir in Transit: Whiteness, Displacement and Journalism in Peter Godwin's Autobiographical Writing