Research
Research interests
Cultural heritage, museums, exhibitions, public art, design history, historiography, scenography, silent film, theatre.
A recent research project dealt with the transformations of former psychiatric hospitals into residential areas. (Funded by The Swedish National Heritage Board 2017-2019, Formas 2020-2023). Publication: Komplext kulturarv: från psykiatriskt sjukhus till bostadsområde (2021)
Mårdh is a member of KuFo (the research group for culture studies), one of Karlstad University's prioritized research groups.
On the editorial board of Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art history.
Board member of NORDIK – The Nordic Association for Art Historians r.y.
Teaching
Senior lecturer in Cultural Studies at Karlstad University. Teaches courses in cultural studies, art history and heritage studies.
Director of Studies.
Bio
PhD Art History (2017) Uppsala University, Department of Art History.
Thesis: A Century of Swedish Gustavian Style – Art History, Cultural Heritage and Neoclassical Revivals from the 1890s to the 1990s (2017)
Researcher at the Centre for Gender Studies, Uppsala University, 2019-2023.
Part of Karlstad University since 2019.