Curriculum Vitae

Resumé

A lifelong interest in people and human communication has brought me from design, marketing and communication at an advertising agency via English, German, Intercultural Communication and Media and Communication Studies to a PhD in TechnoScience. I currently work as a senior lecturer of English at Kristianstad University. In my research as well as in my teaching, my focus is on interaction, leadership, power, hierarchies, and subversion — in online social game environments as well as in (postcolonial) literature — which accentuate my interest in global communication.

Career History

2013
Senior Lecturer, Kristianstad University, Department of Human Sciences/English Courses taught: Essay examination (English literature), oral proficiency (taught twice), English vocabulary, English literature, English for teacher trainees, Society and culture, English Grammar, English Grammar and Phonetics (taught twice).

2012 - 2013
Senior Lecturer, Karlstad University, Department of Languages (English). Courses taught: Language learning in theory and practice (literature course, taught four times); Literature and teaching methodology II (literary history course, taught twice); Culture, Media; Society (literature course, taught twice) and 3rd term essay supervision and examination.

2011 - 2012
On parental leave with a seriously injured son (car accident involving a moose).

2006 - 2011
PhD Candidate, Department of Culture and Communication, The Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona. Courses taught: Gender and Technology (English literature course); Digital Cultures; Media Labs, (Dreamweaver, Photoshop etc); Language & Communication 2 (English essay writing); The Time Machine (English sci-fi literature); and 3D building in the online world Second Life on the Crossmedia programme. Most courses have been taught in the field of English.

2004 - 2006
University lecturer, Department of Education, Karlstad University. Courses taught: Ungdomars sociala och psykologiska utveckling sedd ur olika kulturella perspektiv; Lärande, undervisning och språk.
Bild och Grafisk Form (Media and Communication Studies).

1993 - 1998
Art Director assistant, Trentera Reklambyrå AB, Norrtälje.

Education

2007 - 2011
PhD Candidate, TechnoScience at the Blekinge Institute of Technology. Defence: May 27, 2011. "Power Games: Rules and Roles in Second Life."

2006 - 2007
PhD Candidate, American Literature at Uppsala University and the Blekinge Institute of Technology.

1999 - 2004
English 150 hp, German 80 hp, and Media and Communication Studies 60 hp (and a few other courses) at Karlstad University

1988 - 89
Sekreterarskolan, Kursverksamheten vid Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm

Personal Assistant, tourism. Locations: Great Britain (Brighton) and Switzerland (Davos and Ascona) Languages: English, German, and Italian.

1985 - 1988
Västerdalarnas Gymnasieskola, Malung. Humanistisk linje, 3 years. Languages: English, German, and French

Publications – Articles

2012
"Make-Believe and Make-Belief in Second Life Role-Playing Communities." Included in a special issue of Convergence. (Feb 2012)

2011
"Power Games: Rules and Roles in Second Life." PhD thesis. Blekinge Institute of Technology Doctorial Dissertation Series. No 2011:09. ISSN 1653-2090. ISBN 978-91-7295-209-6.

2009
"Self, Setting, and Situation in Second Life." Included in Performing Digital Literature: Case Studies and Critical Positions published by Continuum Books.

2008
"Decolonizing Cyberspace." Included in the Cybercultures volume, 'At The Interface/Probing the Boundaries' series, published by Rodopi.

2007
'Freedom for Just One Night': The Promise and Threat of Information and Communication Technologies" (Winter 2007 special issue of Women Writers.net, "Digital Eves: Transgression/Transcendence in Cyberspace.")

Conferences, Lectures & Consultancies

October 2010
"The Culture of Ubiquitous Information." Seminar. IT University of Copenhagen.

June 2010
"Midian City Role-Play." Workshop presentation. "Making Sense of Virtual Worlds and User-Driven Innovation." Virtual Worlds Research Workshop, Magleås Kursuscenter, Roskilde Universitet.

December 2009
"Applying Discourse Theory and CDA in the study of Media, Images, and Film." Workshop. Roskilde Universitet.

October 2009
"Analytical Strategies and Methodologies for the Study of Virtual Worlds." Workshop. Roskilde University.

June 2009
"Neko Culture in Second Life." Conference paper. Under the Mask: Perspectives on the Gamer. University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK.

Nov 2008
Lecture on building with sculpties in Second Life. HUMlab, Umeå University.

Nov 2008
"The Weaving of the 3D Web: Hierarchies and Subversion in online worlds." Talk at HUMlab, Umeå University.

June 2008
"Avant-Garde and Subversion in an Online 3D World." Conference paper. Under the Mask: Perspectives on the Gamer. University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK.

May 2008
Introductory workshop to Second Life. Learning Lab, BTH.

Nov 2007
"User-Generated Content in Second Life" Talk at the Plan B seminar at InDiMedia (Research Centre for Interactive Digital Media) at Aalborg University.

Nov 2007
"Money-Making Avatars?" Talk at the ComlTop and Dreamgames Network workshop, Aalborg University.

Oct 2007
Introductory workshop to Second Life. Learning Lab, BTH.

Sept 2007
Introductory workshop to Second Life. Learning Lab, BTH.

Aug 2007
"What is Second Life?" Talk at TEK-dagen, Gullberna Park, BTH.

2006 - 2007
Introduction to and course building in Second Life (roleplaying and design) for students and staff at GippsTAFE (Gippsland Institute of TAFE, Newborough, Victoria, Australia)

2006 - 2007
Collaboration with Fablusi Pty Ltd and Simplay.net, Melbourne, Australia in Second Life

Nov 2006
"The League of Worlds 3." Conference Boone, North Carolina, US.

2005-2006
Introduction to Second Life (building, scripting and design) for students on the Interactive Media Programme at the Department of Media at Arcada Polytechnic, Helsinki, Finland

Administration and other service

July 2008 – June 2009
The Doctoral Candidate Council representative on the BTH university board.

July 2008 – June 2009
Chair of the Doctoral Candidate Council at BTH.

July 2007 – June 2008
Treasurer of the Doctoral Candidate Council at BTH.

Oct 2007
Conference Organization: League of Worlds 4 in Karlskrona. Main focus of the conference: the online world Second Life.

2007
Second Life – framtidens lärmiljö. Research project. Collaboration between Umeå university, BTH, Högskolan i Kalmar, and Luleå University of Technology

2006
Book layout: Berätta för att förstå?: Sju essäer. Eds. Åke Bergvall, Anders Tyrberg and Elisabeth Wennö

2005
Book layout: Memory, Haunting, Discourse. Eds. Maria Holmgren Troy and Elisabeth Wennö

2004 - 2006
Website administration and graphic profile for the Space, Haunting, Discourse conference at Karlstad University

2004 - 2006
Administration and course responsibility on two English distance courses at Karlstad University

2004 - 2006
Scheduled teaching on the A-, B- and C-course at the Department of English at Karlstad University

2004-2005
Software design and administration on the translation project, Karlstad University. 1600 syllabuses were translated from Swedish into English.

2004
Website administration and graphic profile for the Memory, Haunting, Discourse/Discourse, Haunting, Memory conference at Karlstad University