Research output per year
Research output per year
Senior Lecturer
I am an Associate Professor in Literary Studies and a lecturer in Medical Humanities, especially Literature and Medicine.
I have a special interest in depictions of illness, which was the topic for my dissertation Litterära besvär ('Literary Ills', published 2010). Since 2017 I am lecturer in Medical Humanities, which is the first position of its kind in Sweden, and since 2021 I am assistant director of Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanitites at Lund University. I am coordinating Medical Humanities at the Medical Programme, which includes teaching, development of new seminars, recruitment of teachers, supervision of master's theses and on the PhD level (both within medical humanities and literary studies), as well as research and other coordination.
My interest for the field is broad, and both in my dissertation and in the book Culture and Health – A Wider Horizon (ed. Ola Sigurdson) I have given introductory overviews of Medical Humanities and Narrative Medicine, and to some extent contributed to the establishment of them in Sweden. Presently I study autobiographical illness narratives, so called pathographies, with an emphasis on Swedish matieral, but I also continue to publish literary studies. I am interested in multi-disciplinary contexts and how literature and literary scholarship can find a place within the field. During 2021 I am part of a multi-disciplinary study group under the theme of Reading and Health. I am an educated leader on shared reading. In my former work, where I established a new structure for the publications series in humanities and theology and project managed this work, I also completed courses in project management, and I was part of the group that buildt up from scratch Kriterium, the national portal for review and publication of high-quality academic books.
I am a member of the steering committee of “Nordic Network for Narratives and Medicine” and part of the research group ”Health, Art and Society”, tied to Tromsø University. Internationally, I also have contact with Narrative Medicine, Columbia University, where I have attended workshops, and I have a European network of contacts in the subject. I contribute to arrangements within Medical Humanities and Narrative Medicine nationally, which have been established the past few years, and I have an extensive Swedish nwtwork of contacts. I am regularly a peer reviewer for manuscirpts and research applications in the Swedish and Nordic context.
I have earlier worked both within history of the university and scientific publishing. Within Literary History, I was one of the editors for the volume En lundensisk litteraturhistoria ('A Lundensian Literary History'), published in connection with Lund University’s 350th anniversary.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper › Newspaper article
Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology (editor) › Popular science
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter
Garwicz, M., Tunlid, A., Bernhardsson, K., Psouni, E., Gustafsson, A. W., Wistrand, J., Lindberg, J., Mårtensson, J., Strand, P., Dellson, P., Lindahl, B. & Thormählen, Å.
2021/08/23 → 2022/08/22
Project: Network
Ohlsson, A., Forslid, T., Johnsson, P., Järvholm, K., Bernhardsson, K., Törnqvist, A. C., Gustafsson, A. W., Wistrand, J., Dellson, P. & Malmström, M.
2021/01/01 → 2021/12/31
Project: Network
Schoug, F., Fürst, C. J., Rasmussen, B., Bruhn, T., Ekengren, F., Holgersson, U., Bernhardsson, K., Zadig, S., Palm, A., Rübsamen, M. & Woodworth, J.
2019/09/01 → 2020/06/26
Project: Network
Cronqvist, M., Sturfelt, L., Kärrholm, S., Qvarnström, S., Bergström, Å., Bernhardsson, K., Småberg, M. & Holgersson, U.
Erik Philip-Sörensens stiftelse för främjande av genetisk och humanistisk vetenskaplig forskning
2016/01/01 → 2019/01/01
Project: Network
Möller, D., Bernhardsson, K., Bexell, G. & Stenström, J.
2015/08/31 → 2017/09/30
Project: Research
Lisa Engström (Organiser), Gabriella Nilsson (Organiser), Sara Hultqvist (Invited speaker), Rebecca Selberg (Invited speaker), Mia Hylén (Invited speaker), Charlotte Högberg (Invited speaker), Kristofer Hansson (Invited speaker), Gabriella Nilsson (Presenter), Stinne Glasdam (Invited speaker), Anna Tunlid (Participant), Katarina Bernhardsson (Participant), Anna W Gustafsson (Participant), Lisa Ekstam (Participant), Rachel Irwin (Participant) & Martin Garwicz (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation of workshop/ seminar/ course
Katarina Bernhardsson (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop/ seminar/ course
Katarina Bernhardsson (Peer reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Journal/Manuscript peer review
Katarina Bernhardsson (Member of programme committee)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation of public lecture/debate/seminar
Katarina Bernhardsson (Peer reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Journal/Manuscript peer review