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Sanja Nivesjö is an Associate Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University. She obtained her PhD in English Literature from Stockholm University and Justus Liebig University Giessen in 2020 with a dissertation titled 'Dis-placed Desires: Space and Sexuality in South African Literature'. She works on gender and political solidarity in African Literatures, examining the representation of these themes in Anglophone literature from Northern, Eastern, and Southern Africa, particularly during the conflicts of the Cold War, Apartheid, and the Arab Spring. Nivesjö is involved in multiple research projects including 'Interracial Love in Southern African Literature, 1900-1950', funded by the Swedish Research Council. She has also collaborated with Tasnim Qutait and Gül Bilge Han on a project exploring solidarity through gender in African literatures from 2026 to 2028. Her editorial roles include co-subject editor for the Nordic Journal of African Studies and serving on the editorial board of the International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies. Nivesjö's research interests encompass South African literature, queer theory, sexualities, solidarity, postcolonial studies, and spatiality.
Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University • Uppsala, Sweden
Teaching and supervising MA and BA courses in Gender Research.
General Master's requirements applying across Science, Technology, and Humanities departments.