Mattias Fyhr

About Mattias Fyhr

Mattias Fyhr is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature, especially interested in Horror Literature from ancient times until today, including authors such as the king Gustaf III, Erik Johan Stagnelius, Anna Maria Lenngren, Julia Nyberg, Alfred Nobel, Dan Andersson, Mare Kandre and many others.

Mattias has previously worked at Stockholm University, Folkuniversitetet, Jönköpings högskola, Aarhus and Lund University and others, guest lectured at University of Cambridge, Northampton University, Richmond, The American International University in London, Comenius University in Bratislava, University of Vienna, Stagnelii vänner, The Victor Rydberg-Society and others, and served as peer-reviewer and specialist for The Swedish Research Council,  Oxford University Press, The Royal Dramatic Theatre, The Swedish Television, Hallwylska and many others.

Research

Mattias' research has included the Gothic and other Horror, in Prose, Poetry, Drama, folkloristic Tales and the border between fiction and fact, the "popular" and the "high-brow", Children's and Adult Literature, Biography and specific eras (Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, Modernism and so on) and bordering genres (Fantasy, SF, Crime) and other areas. One example is the monograph Död men drömmande (Dead But Dreaming, 2006) on H P Lovecraft and the popular literature and Modernism, as well as the occultism and Science, at the turn of the century. 

Of late he's also researching bullying in literatury history and the forest in literature.

He's a member of The International Gothic Association and The Swedish Writers' Union.