Elisabeth Hjorth

Elisabeth Hjorth defended her dissertation in Ethics at Uppsala University in 2015. Her postdoc project was financed by the Swedish Research Council and revolves around female autobiography, violence and shame in relation to writing, in conversation with Adriana Cavarero, Chris Krauss, Simone Weil, Marina Abramovic and others. In 2020 SRC granted her funding for the project “Autistic writing: reclaiming, reloading another mother tongue” together with Professor Jonna Bornemark and Associate Professor Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist.