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Eva-Marie Bloom Ström is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Gothenburg, specializing in African languages and linguistics. She has a PhD in African languages, obtained in 2013, and became an Associate Professor in 2020. Her academic pursuits include teaching field methods, Somali, and various linguistics courses. Ström's research interests focus on language structure, speaker intents, and the interactions between speakers and listeners, particularly within Bantu languages. She is currently leading a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council analyzing information structure and word order in Southern African languages, and she has published several works related to these topics. Throughout her career, she has collected fieldwork data to support her studies and has created a unique searchable corpus for recorded conversations. Ström has previously worked at Rhodes University in South Africa and has focused on the grammatical description of the Ndengeleko language and the sociolinguistic issues surrounding it.
University of Gothenburg • Göteborg, Sweden
Teaching and researching African languages and linguistics.
Rhodes University • Grahamstown, South Africa
Conducting research and teaching in the field of African languages.
Administered by the Department of Political Science; focus on International Administration and Global Governance (IAGG).