I completed my PhD in Cinema Studies at Stockholm University in 2023.
My research focuses on film history, especially its use beyond the cinema. Here my focus is on historical approaches to institutional uses of film, so-called useful cinema, and their intermediaries. In my PhD dissertation "Extracting versatility: Films commissioned by the mining industry in postwar Sweden", I investigated how films commissioned by mining companies in Sweden between 1945-65 passed as educational documentation of work life and Sápmi contexts, as aids to productivity, and as art film through various intermediaries including government agencies, television, and the Swedish Film Institute. As archives have not systematically catalogued commissioned films, it became necessary in this project to map traces of archival material across a variety of corporate, regional, and national archives.

I particularly enjoy researching audiovisual material that has suffered archival neglect, and for which there is currently little available information about it. My current research projects seek to broaden our understanding of institutional dimensions of corporate media support by looking at other media types, including filmstrips, and other film use contexts, including public discourse on energy policy, to expand the knowledge of film use in historical settings. In a forthcoming book chapter, I examine the visual rhetoric of commissioned films about hydropower in light of changes in state energy policy in post-war Norway.

In exploring my interest in filmstrips and closely related projected still image media such as slideshows and “multivision”, I have together with Lars Diurlin and Erik Florin Persson (both at Linnaeus University), recently initiated the project “Film strips, slides and beyond – Entangled histories of projected images in Europe 1945–1995”. This project seeks to expand on previous research which has mainly focused on educational use of magic lanterns in Western and Central Europe in earlier time periods.