Johan Gardfors holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Gothenburg. He teaches creative writing and comparative literature at several Swedish universities and is a frequent writer of literary essays on aesthetics. His research is devoted to problems of interartistic relations, such as the cluster of photography-literature-modernity, the strategy of illegible writing in the transnational avant-garde movements, and the transformation of the literary field in relation to visual arts during the 1960s. Recent publications include a multilingual and collectively authored article on the sound poet Lily Greenham, an edited book on photography and literature, an article on the editorial practices of the avant-gardes, and an anachronistic reading of Leibniz as an existentialist. Gardfors is affiliated to the ENAG network for studies of the European Neo-Avant-Gardes and was a visiting scholar at DEPA, Paris 8, during 2019.

CV

• Assistant professor at Karlstad University and Mid Sweden University, 2020–2021
• Visiting scholar at Université Paris 8, 2019
• Bernadotte fellow through the Swedish Royal Academy of Letters, 2018
• Ph.D. in comparative literature, University of Gothenburg, 2017
• Visiting scholar at Columbia University, 2015
• M.A. in philosophy, Södertörn University, 2009
• M.A. in comparative literature, Gothenburg university, 2009