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Matilda Amundsen Bergström

Researcher

Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
Mail
matilda.amundsen.bergstrom@lir.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Matilda Amundsen Bergström

I am a researcher in comparative literature. In my current project "A Happy Life. Women's Moral Philosophy in 17th- and 18th-Century Scandinavia", financed by Riksbankens jubileumsfond, I explore how Scandinavian women intellectuals debated and discussed happiness and the meaning of a good life. I read philosophical tracts, poems, hymns, journals and novels to understand women's moral and ethical thought of the period. I am also part of the project "Making Enlightenment Happen. Gothenburg Women in 18th-Century Swedish Public Life", financed by the Swedish research council. In that project, we study female authors, printers, editors, journalists, actors, translators and readers in late 18th-century Gothenburg.

I defended my thesis As a Sappho. Three Early Modern Authors and their Strategies of Publication, Self-Presentation and Rhetoric at the University 91̽»¨ in 2019. My thesis is focused on the poets Louise Labé, Katherine Philips and Hedvig Carlotta Nordenflycht, and I study how they all presented themselves and were presented as heiresses of Sappho. My primary research interest is early modern women poets and philosophers, and I am especially interested in ethics, rhetoric and issues of authority.

I am the coordinator for the early modern seminar at the University 91̽»¨, and one of the founders of Philosophy in Other Words. Research Network on Early Modern Women and Philosophy (POW).