Sara Danius
| Sara Danius | |
|---|---|
 Danius in 2016 | |
| Born |
Sara Maria Danius April 5, 1962 Täby, Sweden |
| Alma mater |
Uppsala University Duke University University of Nottingham University of Stockholm |
| Institutions |
Swedish Academy Södertörn University Uppsala University |
Sara Maria Danius (born 5 April 1962 in Täby[1]) is a Swedish scholar of literature and aesthetics. Danius is Professor of Aesthetics at Södertörn University[2] and Docent of Literature at Uppsala University.[3]
Danius graduated from University of Stockholm in 1986. She received her Master of Arts in Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham in 1989. In 1997 she became a Ph.D. at Duke University, and in 1999 she received a Ph.D. degree at Uppsala University.[4] She has published on the relationship between literature and society, and written about Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert and James Joyce.
Danius has worked as a literary critic for the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter since 1986.[1] She is an executive member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters since 2010.
In March 2013, Danius was elected to be a member of the Swedish Academy, succeeding Knut Ahnlund on chair 7. Danius was formally installed in the academy at a ceremony on 20 December 2013.[2][3] She took over the post as permanent secretary of the academy from Peter Englund on 1 June 2015.[5][6]
Bibliography
- Försök om litteratur (1998)
- Prousts motor (2000)
- The senses of modernism: technology, perception, and aesthetics, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8014-3899-3
- The prose of the world: Flaubert and the art of making things visible, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2006. ISBN 91-554-6599-4
- Voices: contemporary ceramic art from Sweden, Stockholm: Carlsson, 2006. ISBN 91-7203-778-4
- Proust-Benjamin : om fotografin, 2011. ISBN 978-91-86883-05-8
- Näsa för nyheter : essä om James Joyce, 2013. ISBN 978-91-87219-02-3
- Den blå tvålen: Romanen och konsten att göra saker och ting synliga, 2013. ISBN 978-91-0-012049-8
- Knut Ahnlund, 2014
- Husmoderns död och andra texter, 2014.
References
- 1 2 Sara Danius, Vem är det: Svensk biografisk handbok 1993, p. 235
- 1 2 Ny ledamot i Svenska Akademien, press release from the Swedish Academy, 7 March 2013 (Swedish)
- 1 2 DN-medarbetare tar plats i Svenska akademien, Dagens Nyheter 7 March 2013 (Swedish)
- ↑ Sara Danius, profile at Södertörn University (Swedish)
- ↑ Sara Danius ersätter Peter Englund, Dagens Nyheter 20 December 2014 (Swedish)
- ↑ "Chair no. 7 - Sara Danius". The Swedish Academy. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
| Cultural offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Knut Ahnlund |
Swedish Academy, Seat No.7 2013– |
Succeeded by incumbent |