Personal vid Högskolan
Anna Wera Elisabeth Fåhraeus
Senior Lecturer
( School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences )
Working with
Dr. Fåhraeus is Head of English and responsible for the university-wide Curriculum Core course Fiction, Empathy and social sustainability. She wrote her dissertation Black Males and White Masculinity in Four Renaissance Tragedies of Blood (2008) at Gothenburg University. She started working at Halmstad University in 2006 and has since also studied history at Oxford University.
Dr. Fåhraeus runs the Empathy Lab at Halmstad University with Jörgen Öijervall and they have worked with the Halland County libraries and psychiatric health professionals in order to promote an increased understanding of the dynamics of empathy through the study and discussion of fiction. Her research interests include cognitive approaches to literature and digital reading. Within English literature specifically, she is currently working on a project that looks at lesbian representation during the Modernist period in the United States.
Research projects
Latest publications
Artikel i tidskrift
Article in journal
Cultural Materialism in the Production and Distribution of Exploitative Lesbian Film : A Historical Case Study of Children of Loneliness (1935)
(2020) PublishedFiction as a Means for Understanding the Dynamics of Empathy : A 3-year Empirical Study with Students
(2020) PublishedProustian Desire and the Queering of Masculinity in Gay Cinematic Romance
(2014) PublishedIntroduction : Textual Masculinity and the Female Writer
(2008) Published
Kapitel i bok, del av antologi
Chapter in book
Historicising Racialised Objects of Horror : The Black Renaissance Villain
(2020)"So You Thought We Would Go Away?" : Confronting Shaming in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour
(2018)Litteraturvetenskap som demokratiprojekt
(2018)Historicizing Racial Objects of Horror : From the Black Renaissance Villain to the Voodoo Doer
(2011)Historicizing Racialised Objects of Horror : The Black Renaissance Villain
(2010)Postcolonial concepts without politics? : A comment on Jonnie Eriksson
(2009)
Rapport
Report
Läsfrämjande, forskning och kompetensutveckling i Halland
(2017)
Artikel, recension
Article, book review
Research Supports Learner-Centered Teaching
(2013) Published
Samlingsverk (redaktörskap)
Collection (editor)
Villains and Villainy : Embodiments of Evil in Literature, Popular Culture and Media
(2011)Nordic Journal of English Studies : Special Issue: Renaissance Drama excluding Shakespeare
(2005)Textual Ethos Studies Or Locating Ethics
(2005)
Artikel, forskningsöversikt
Article, review/survey
A Source for William Rowley's All's Lost by Lust
(2009) Published
Konferensbidrag
Conference paper
Creating Racialized Objects of Horror : The Black Renaissance Villain
(2009)The Colony of Unrequited Dreams : The Materiality of the Emotional Landscape of Canada
(2009)
Doktorsavhandling, monografi
Doctoral thesis, monograph
Black Males and White Masculinity in Four Renaissance Tragedies of Blood
(2008)
