Nicklas Hållén

My research interests include African literature and publishing in Africa, emergent literatures and travel literature, among other things.

I am a member of the KuFo researchgroup. 

I teach English literature and literature courses for teacher students. 

I finished my PhD studies at Umeå University in 2011 and have since then worked or been based at Uppsala University, University of York and Linnaeus University. My postdoc project focused on diasporic travel writing about Africa. After my postdoc I was a member of the research project African Street Literature and the Future of Literary Form, which was based at Uppsala University and funded by the Swedish Research Council. I have recently finished the STINT funded project "Researching Ephemerality: Developing methods for studying the informal in popular culture" together with a colleague from Machakos Univeristy, Kenya. I am currently a member of the ERC-funded research project "Almeda: African Literature Metadata".