Lena Wånggren

Dr Lena Wånggren teaches courses on English and Scottish Literature, gender studies and feminist writing, in the English Literature department and at the Centre for Open Learning. Holding an MSc and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh, and a BA (Hons) in Literary Studies from Stockholm University, she has held a variety of research and teaching positions including at Glasgow University (2017-2020) and Edinburgh Napier University (2016-2017). Lena works broadly on gender and social justice in  relation to literary studies, with specific interests in:

• Nineteenth-century literature
• Women's and LGBTQ+ writing
• Scottish literature
• Feminist activism and pedagogy
• Trade union studies
• Literature and medicine/medical humanities. 

Her publications include books on gender, literature and culture:

• Gender, Technology and the New Woman (2017)
• Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement (2015, with Sellberg and Aghtan)

Her publications also include articles and book chapters on gender and medicine/health, feminist and antiracist pedagogy, literature and culture, including:

• Wånggren, L. (2020). Robert Louis Stevenson and the marriage debate: 'The Enchantress' in context. Scottish Literary Review, 12(1), 123-142.
• Wånggren, L. (2018). Feminist trade unionism and post-work imaginaries. Applied Social Theory, 1.2, 102-124. https://socialtheoryapplied.com/journal/jast/article/view/57/73
• Wånggren, L. (2018). Precarious Responsibility: Teaching with Feminist Politics in the Marketized University. Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 14.https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jfs/vol14/iss14/1/

She has co-edited a number of journal special issues, including one on education, intersectionality and social justice, for the Journal of Feminist Scholarship (2015). She is currently co-writing a book on working conditions in UK higher education.