Andreas Tranvik

Andreas Tranvik is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, since 2022. His research is primarily focused on literature as it relates to intellectual history and the history of knowledge. More specifically, he works on epistemic and epistemological matters in early modern and modern drama, ranging from comedies in the 1700s to chamber plays in the 1900s. Currently, he is finishing a dissertation about the 18th-century Danish-Norwegian playwright Ludvig Holberg, which is intended to become the first-ever comprehensive monograph on Holberg written in Swedish. His other writings—research articles as well as essays and reviews—have appeared in journals such as Modern Drama, Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, The Cambridge Quarterly, and Critical Inquiry.

Tranvik is an associate researcher at Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) and a member of the research group Thinking the European Republic of Letters within Centre for Modern European Studies – An Öresund Network of Lund University, Malmö University and the University of Copenhagen (CEMES).

In the summer of 2024, Tranvik was a sponsored participant at the School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University. During the fall of the same year, he was a visiting researcher at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen.