Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson

About

Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson is a lecturer in English literature at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mid-Sweden University.

Her research addresses questions of embodied cognition and the multifarious ways in which the body emerges to be perceived as meaningful in works of literature, drama and art, whether as effects produced or as the means to produce them.

Charlotta is the author of A Theatre of Affect: The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Beckett's Drama (ibidem Verlag 2017), and Beckett's Drama: Mis-movements and the Aesthetics of Gesture (ibidem Verlag 2024).

Bakgrund

Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson completed her PhD at Stockholm University in2012.

Forskningsområden

Charlotta's research interests include modernist literature, drama and dance studies, aesthetics, reception theory, phenomenology, memory studies and affect theory.

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-0918-899X
ACADEMIA: https://miun.academia.edu/CharlottaPalmstiernaEinarsson

Forskning

Monograph forthcoming with ibidem Verlag, 2026/27

Provisional title: ‘The Architecture of Change: Three Swedish Performances of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot’

Short description
Taking off from the assumption that “art is a configuring process which gives form to the prefiguring actions of the social lifeworld” (Richard Kearney referring to Ricoeur), I examine three productions of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in Sweden, staged over a period of fifty years (1954–2003). My aim is to describe the architecture of change that could be seen to shape each performance. The notion of an architecture signals my assumption that change is structured in a manner that could be identified and described. In labelling various structural parameters such as, for instance, modes of translation, modes of interpretation, the cultural context for each performance, or the processes of decision leading up to the staging of Beckett’s play in each historical context, 'an architecture of change', I approach the three performances of Godot in Sweden as evidence of the interaction between text and context. Questions that propel the investigation are, for example, what do performances reveal about the social lifeworld that comprises their context? What does Beckett's Godot say about Sweden, 1954, 1978 or 2003 and/or what does Sweden say about Beckett's Godot? Revisiting the cultural context for each performance/production, I thus consider issues of translation, cultural context, interpretation etc., to be structural elements of an architecture of change, which predicates on interaction.


Anthology forthcoming with Stockholm University Press 2026
Eds Marina Ludwigs and Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson

‘Considering Events in Theory and Practice: An Anthology of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Eventfulness in the Humanities and Natural Sciences’


Short description
This anthology gathers contributions from fourteen scholars working in the humanities, the natural sciences, the performing arts, and in engineering, who all share an interest in the concept of the event. The chapters present discipline-specific thoughts on the concept of eventfulness and comprises reflections, for instance, on the philosophy and phenomenology of the event, on the drama of the event or the event of drama, and on the differences between humanistic and scientific events. The underlying assumption is that if academics in unrelated areas of study were to discourse with each other and search for points of intersection germane to all parties, then the idea of eventfulness would probably be one of the best places to start. The purpose of this book is thus to reconcile the eventful vision arising from different, sometimes seemingly incompatible perspectives of each academic area together on the collective scene of thinking.

Övrigt

Happy to be part of Maggie Kubanyiova and Parinita Shetty's multivoiced book Listening Without Borders: Creating Spaces for Encountering Difference

 

Organising a conference in Stockholm together with colleagues from Sweden, Hungary and Belgium at the Stockholm Waterfornt Congress, 20-22 August 2024.

‘What Remains? Literature and Ethics in a Time of Crisis’

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: 

Hanna Meretoja (University of Turku)

James Phelan (Project Narrative, Ohio State University)

 

Organizers: 

Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson (Mid Sweden University)

Marina Kohnen Ludwigs (Stockholm University)

Anita Rákóczy (Károli Gáspár University)

Pieter Vermeulen (KU Leuven)

Joakim Wrethed (Stockholm University)

 The event if funded by RJ.

Extra kontaktinformation

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Forskningsprojekt

Avslutade

Beckett’s Drama: Mis-Movements and the Aesthetics of Gesture

Pilotstudie: Att ompröva relationen mellan kunskapsproduktion och bedömning av akademiska uppsatser inom Lärarprogrammet i svensk högre utbildning