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Johan Anders Höglund (born 1967) is a Swedish academic, postcolonial scholar and cultural critic. He is professor of English Literature at
Linnaeus University Linnaeus University (LNU) () is a state university in the Swedish historical province (''landskap'') Småland, with campuses located in Växjö and Kalmar. Linnaeus University was established in 2010 by a merger of former Växjö University a ...
and former director o
the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
. He received an MA from
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, Rhode Island in 1994, and a PhD from
Uppsala University Uppsala University (UU) () is a public university, public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the List of universities in Sweden, oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation. Initially fou ...
, Sweden, in 1997. He is best known for his work on the relationship between American gothic narratives and the long history of US imperialism, and on the Military
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. He has also written about Animal Horror Cinema, Nordic Gothic, British
Invasion literature Invasion literature (also the invasion novel or the future war genre) is a literary genre that was popular in the period between 1871 and the World War I, First World War (1914–1918). The invasion novel was first recognised as a literary genr ...
before WWI, and on the turn-of-the-century British author Richard Marsh. He has cooperated with Gothic scholar Justin D. Edwards and Indian writer and scholar Tabish Khair. He currently lives in Kalmar, Sweden.


Career

Höglund received an MA from
Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...
, Rhode Island in 1994, and a PhD from
Uppsala University Uppsala University (UU) () is a public university, public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the List of universities in Sweden, oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation. Initially fou ...
, Sweden, in 1997. His doctoral dissertation ''Mobilizing the Novel: The Literature of Imperialism and the First World War'' focuses on pre-WWI British military and gothic invasion narratives such as William Le Queux's '' The Invasion of 1910'' (1906), Bram Stoker's ''
Dracula ''Dracula'' is an 1897 Gothic fiction, Gothic horror fiction, horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is Epistolary novel, related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens ...
'' (1897) and Richard Marsh's ''The Beetle''. Since 2005, Höglund's work on British turn-of-the-century writing has mostly concerned the fiction of Richard Marsh and its discussion of race, innate criminality and eugenics. Höglund has written about the connection between military digital games, US neo-colonialism and the Military industrial entertainment complex. Höglund has also studied how the history of WWII and the ideology of Nazism is represented in the
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franchise. Building on Patrick's Brantlinger's observation in ''Rule of Darkness, British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914'' that the late nineteenth century gothic novel was a vehicle of imperial sentiment, Höglund argues that American Gothic has been imperial since its inception in the late eighteenth century. In his book The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire Violence, Höglund traces this development from the publication of Charles Brockden Brown's '' Edgar Huntly'' in 1799, to the early years of the
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presidency.


Selected works

*''Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth'' (2022) (edited with Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund *''Nordic Gothic'' (2020) (edited with Maria Holmgren Troy, Yvonne Leffler, Sofia Wijkmark *''B-Movie Gothic: International Perspectives'' (2018) (edited with Justin D. Edwards). . *''Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism'' (2015) (edited with Katarina Gregersdotter and Niklas Hållén). . *''The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire Violence'' (2014). . *''Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires: Dark Blood'' (2012) (edited with Tabish Khair). . *''Mobilizing the Novel: The Literature of Imperialism and the First World War'' (1997). .


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External links

*Johan Höglund at Linnaeus University https://lnu.se/en/staff/johan.hoglund/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoglund, Johan Anders 1967 births Living people Brown University alumni Uppsala University alumni Academic staff of Linnaeus University