Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives

Nilsson, Magnus: - Magnus Nilsson is Professor of Comparative Literature at Malmö University, Sweden. He has published a large number of books, book chapters and articles on working-class literature and on questions regarding the relationship between literature and class, including the monographs Den föreställda mångkulturen: Klass och etnicitet i svensk samtidsprosa [Imagined Cultural Diversity: Class and Ethnicity in Contemporary Swedish Prose Fiction] (2010) and Literature and Class: Aesthetical-Political Strategies in Modern Swedish Working-Class Literature (2014). He is coordinating a Nordic network for research on working-class literature, which since 2010 has organized five conferences and published four edited collections. His other research interests include comics and heavy metal. ORCID: 0000-0001-5848-2231