Stefan Ekman
Researcher at Department of ALM
- E-mail:
- stefan.se.ekman@abm.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H
752 38 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 625
751 26 UPPSALA
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-0902-5637
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Short presentation
Docent in English Literature with an interest in research data practices, the ideology of world-building, and the social commentary of urban fantasy.
Biography
Stefan Ekman is docent (approx. Dr. habil./Assoc. Prof.) in English literature, and has an MSc in economics with a focus on development and environment. His doctoral thesis examines the function of environments in fantasy literature, and he has just finished
Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, a monograph on the role of social commentary in the urban fantasy genre (Lever Press, scheduled for 2024). He has also developed analytical approaches to critical world-building.
He is a former head (2008-14) of the Fantasy Literature Division of the International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts. His book
Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings (Wesleyan UP, 2013) was finalist for the Locus Award (Non-Fiction) in 2014, and for the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (Myth and Fantasy Studies) in 2016. He is a member of the Editorial Board of
Fafnir - Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research and runs the Fantasy Online Research Seminar (FORS).
Research
Member of the CAPTURE project, exploring the use and practices concerning paradata primarily in archaeological research.
Publications
Recent publications
- Documentation of Data Making, Processing and Use Facilitates Future Reuse of Research Data (2024)
- Gemensamt lärande genom jämförelse och fördjupning (2022)
- A Double Perspective on the Social Margin in Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City (2022)
- Between World and Narrative (2021)
- Vitruvius, Critics, and the Architecture of Worlds (2019)
All publications
Articles
- Between World and Narrative (2021)
- Vitruvius, Critics, and the Architecture of Worlds (2019)
- A Practical Application of Critical World-Building (2019)
- Entering a fantasy world through its map (2018)
- Urban fantasy (2018)
- London Urban Fantasy (2018)
- Map and Text (2018)
- Literatura Niewidocznego (2018)
- Crime Stories and Urban Fantasy (2017)
- Urban Fantasy (2016)
- Stories About Stories (2016)
- Notes Toward a Critical Approach to Worlds and World-Building (2016)
- Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy (2014)
- A Companion to Science Fiction (2010)
- Down, Out and Invisible in London and Seattle (2005)
Books
Chapters
Conferences
- Documentation of Data Making, Processing and Use Facilitates Future Reuse of Research Data (2024)
- A Double Perspective on the Social Margin in Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City (2022)
- Reflecting on and Refracting User Needs through Case Studies in the Light of Europeana Research (2016)
- Swe-Clarin (2016)
- SWE-CLARIN – the Swedish CLARIN project – aims and activities (2016)
Reports
