Sara Danius

Sara Danius in 2008

Sara Maria Danius (born 5 April 1962 in Täby^[1]) is a Swedish scholar of literature and aesthetics. Danius is Professor of Aesthetics at Södertörn University^[2] and Docent of Literature at Uppsala University.^[3]

She received her Master of Arts in Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham in 1989. In 1997 she became a Ph.D. at Duke University, and in 1999 she received a Ph.D. degree at Uppsala University.^[4] She has published on the relationship between literature and society, and written about Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert and James Joyce.

Danius has worked as a literary critic for the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter since 1986.^[1] She is an executive member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters since 2010.

In March 2013, Danius was elected to be a member of the Swedish Academy, succeeding Knut Ahnlund on chair 7. Danius was formally installed in the academy at a ceremony on 20 December 2013.^[2][3] On 20 December 2014, it was announced that Danius will take over the post as permanent secretary of the academy from Peter Englund on 1 June 2015.^[5]

Bibliography

• Försök om litteratur (1998)
• Prousts motor (2000)
• The senses of modernism: technology, perception, and aesthetics, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8014-3899-3
• The prose of the world: Flaubert and the art of making things visible, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2006. ISBN 91-554-6599-4
• Voices: contemporary ceramic art from Sweden, Stockholm: Carlsson, 2006. ISBN 91-7203-778-4
• Proust-Benjamin : om fotografin, 2011. ISBN 97-8918688-305-8
• Näsa för nyheter : essä om James Joyce, 2013. ISBN 97-8918721-902-3
• Den blå tvålen: Romanen och konsten att göra saker och ting synliga, 2013. ISBN 97-8910012-049-8
• Knut Ahnlund, 2014
• Husmoderns död och andra texter, 2014.

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