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PROFESSOR JAN OLSSON Brief Curriculum Vitae including List of Publications

Summary Professor Jan Olsson, born in 1952, is Professor of Cinema Studies and a former Head of Department at Stockholm University. Professor Olsson has published widely on multiple aspects of film and media studies. He is the founding editor of John Libbeys book series Stockholm Studies in Cinema and the founding editor of the scholarly journal Aura. Film Studies Journal. He is the recipient of multiple research grants, for example an Institutional Grant from STINT (The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education; 2001-2004 together with the University of Southern California) and a project on early cinema including four scholars from Stockholm and Ann Arbor (The Swedish Research Council (VR), 2002-2004). His latest larger research grants (VR) ran from 2010-13, From Business Commodities to Revered Cultural Heritage: Global Media, Vernacular Strategies, and Cultural Negotiations. Current research interests include early cinema, archival studies, television studies, celebrity studies, and the global reach of American media.

Current PositionProfessor of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden (1993- present)

Academic PostsVisiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (1991 and 2002); University of Southern California, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005; Utrecht University (1998); Northwestern University (2006)(1986-1992) Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Lund University, Sweden(1980-1986) Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Lund University, Sweden

Education(1979) Ph. D. (Comparative Literature, Lund University)(1974) B.A. (Honors), Lund University

Publications (selected)2015.1 Hitchcock la Carte, Duke University Press (publication date March 20, 2015)2014.4 Stiller at first: A footnote, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, Vol. 4, No. 1(2014), 5-132014.3 Filmaffrer: sicksackande anteckningar kring ngra Frank Heller-adaptationer, in Gran Wessberg (ed.), Frank Heller och filmen (Lund: Pelotard Press, 2014), 41-582014.2 Marie Louise Gagner, Women Film Pioneer Project, hosted on the web by Columbia University2014.1 National Soul/Cosmopolitan Skin: Swedish Cinema at a Crossroads, in Jennifer Bean et al (eds.), Silent Cinema: The Politics of Space (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2014), eds. (Indiana UP, 2014), 245-2692013.1 Screen Bodies and Busybodies: Corporeal Constellations in the Era of Anonymity, Film History, Vol. 25, No. 1-2 (2013): 188-2042012.3, World War II and the Scandinavian Cinema: An Overview, (with Bjrn Srenssen, Hannu Salmi, and Edvin Vestergaard Kau), Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, Vol. 2, No. 3 (2012): 201-2122012.2 Modernity Stops at Nothing: The American Chase Film and the Specter of Lynching, in Andr Gaudreault, Nicolas Dulac, Santiago Hidalgo (eds.), A Companion to a Early Cinema (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 257-276(2012.1) Astas ink: The Stockholm letters, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2012): 5-11(2011.2) Klostret i Sendomir, (Pordenone: Associazone Culturale Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, 2011): 131-133(2011.1) Alfred Hitchcock, thoricien de la television, in Gilles Delavaud/Denis Marchal (eds.), Tlvision: le moment experimental (Rennes: ditions Apoge, 2011), 546558(2010.6) Italian Marionettes Meets Cinematic Modernity, in Kingsley Bolton/Jan Olsson (eds.), Media, Popular Culture, and the American Century (Stockholm: National Library and John Libbey, London, 2010), 35612010.5) Jan Olsson and Kingsley Bolton, Mediated America: Americana as Hollywoodiana, in Kingsley Bolton/Jan Olsson (eds.), Media, Popular Culture, and the American Century (Stockholm: National Library and John Libbey, London, 2010), 733(2010.4) Kingsley Bolton/Jan Olsson (eds.), Media, Popular Culture, and the American Century (Stockholm: National Library and John Libbey, London, 2010)(2010.3) Rediscoveries and Restorations: Karusellen, (Pordenone: Associazone Culturale Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, 2010): 114-117(2010.2) Negotiating Peripheral Feature Markets: MalmCopenhagenBerlin/KristianstadStockholmParis, in Franois Amy de la Bretque/Michel ad/Jordi Pons I Busquet/Angel Quintana (eds.), Domitor: 2008: Les Cinmas priphriques dans la priode des peremiers temps/Peripheral Early Cinema (Perpignan: Presses Universitaires de Perpignan, 2010), 131142(2010.1) Nils Kroks Social Pathos and Paul Garbagnis Style: Ingeborg Holm as Object Lesson, Film History, Vol. 22, No.1 (2010), 73-94(2009.3) The Canon Revisited: Gunnar Hedes saga, (Pordenone: Associazone Culturale Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, 2009): 98-100(2009.2) Video essay for the New York-based internet-site alsolikelife.com The Saga of Gosta Berling (1924, Mauritz Stiller) featuring commentary by Jan Olsson. Also available on Youtube. (2009.1) Kino p usikker grunn Tilfellet Arthur S Hyman/Film Exhibition on Shaky Ground: The Case of Arthur S. Hyman, in Sara Brinch and Anne Gjelsvik (eds.), Veier tilbake. Filmhistoriske perspektiver (Kristiansand: Norwegian Academic Press, 2009), 182-201(2008.7) Los Angeles Before Hollywood: Journalism and American Film Culture, 1905-1915 (Stockholm: National Library, 2009; distribution Wallflower Press, London)(2008.6) Terror la Fox: Tid, rum och teknologi, in Solveig Julich, Patrik Lundell, Pelle Snickars (eds.) Mediernas kulturhistoria (Stockholm: SLBA, 2008), 223-245(2008.5) Lek, in Anu Koivunen (ed.), Film och andra rrliga bilder. En introduktion (Stockholm: Raster Frlag, 2008), 88-105, 277-79 (2008.4) Postmodern High Noon: 24 and the Shifting Landscape of Television, in Nezih Erdogan/Miyase Christensen (eds.), Shifting Landscapes: Media and Film in European Context (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), 262-286(2008.3) Dear Miss Gagner! A Star and Her Methods, in Tytti Soila (ed.), Stellar Encounters: Stardom in Popular European Cinema (London: John Libbey, 2009), 219-231(2008.2) Hjalmar och Stina i tecknet av Dollar, (rebro: Hjalmar Bergman Samfundet, 2008), 28-32(2008.1) Microbes, Animals, and Humans: THE ESCAPE and the Politics of Undesirable Breeding, in Paolo Cherchi Usai (ed.), The D.W. Griffith Project Volume 12 (London: BFI Publishing, 2008), 69-82(2007) Hitchcock la Carte: Menus, Marketing, and the Macabre, in Will Schmenner/Corinne Granof (eds.), Casting A Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film, (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007), 62-77, 81-83(2006) A Remarkably Versatile Dane: Authorship, Style, and Trickality in Benjamin Christensens Blind Justice, in North-West Passage (Rome: Carocci editore), Vol. 3 (2006), 9-24(2005.2) Trading Places: Griffith, Patten and Agricultural Modernity, Film History, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2005, 39-65(2005.1) Tv Mnniskor/Two People, in Tytti Soila (ed.) The Cinema of Scandinavia (London: Wallflower Press, 2005), 79-88 (2004.6) Sound Aspirations: The Two Dimensions of Synchronicity, in Didier Huvelle/ Dominique Nasta (eds.), Le son en perspective: nouvelles recherches/New Perspectives in Sound Study (Bruxelles, P.I. E,-Peter Lang, 2004), 99-114(2004.5) Pressing Inroads: Metaspectators and the Nickelodeon Culture, in John Fullerton (ed.), Screen Culture: History and Textuality (Eastleigh: John Libbey Publishing, 2004), 113-135(2004.4) Quel film non esiste, in Per Dreyer: Incarnazione del Cinema, (Milan: Il Castoro, 2004), 126-137(2004.3) Calling the Shots: Communications, Transportation and Motion Picture Technologies, in Andr Gaudreault, Pierre Vronneau and Catherine Russell (eds.), Le cinmatographe, nouvelle technologie du 20e sicle / The Cinema, A New Technology for the 20th Century (Lausanne: Editions Payot, 2004), 273-281(2004.2) Allegories of Communication: Intermedial Concerns from Cinema to the Digital (eds. John Fullerton/Jan Olsson), London and Rome: John Libbey Publishing - CIC(2004.1) Television After TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition (eds. Lynn Spigel/Jan Olsson), Durham and London: Duke University Press(2003) Double Shooting: Fictions of Making Westerns, in Tanja Sihvonen & Pasi Vliaho (eds.), Experiencing the Media: Assemblages and Cross-overs/Mediaa kokemassa: koosteita ja, ylityksi (University of Turku, Media Studies Series A, No. 53, 2003), 73-90(2001) Hollywoods First Spectators, Aztln. Chicano Studies Journal, Vol XXVI, 1 (Spring 2001), 181-195(2000.2) Eine Woche kommerziellen Fernsehens. Die 'Sandrews tevevecka' vor der Einfhrung des ffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehens in Schweden,Montage/AV.Zeitschrift fr Theorie & Geschichte audiovisueller Kommunikation (Themenheft Skandinavien), vol 9, nr 1, 2000, 125-146(2000.1) Griffiths First Films from Los Angeles, in Paolo Cherchi Usai (ed.), The Griffith Project, Vol. 4: Films Produced in 1910 (London: BFI Publishing, 2000), 19-41(1999.2) In and out of Sync: Swedish Sound Films 1903-1914, Film History, Vol. 11, No. 4, 1999, 449-455(1999.1) Nordic Explorations: Film Before 1930 (eds. John Fullerton/Jan Olsson), London: John Libbey (1992) I museernas sllskap. Konstarter och deras relationer (Co-edited with Hans Lund and Bernt Olsson), Hgans: Wiken, 1992) [In the Company of Muses. The Interrelations between the Arts](1990) I offentlighetens ljus (ed. Jan Olsson), Stehag/Stockholm: Symposion Bokfrlag [In the Public Sphere](1988) Sensationer frn en bakgrd. Frans Lundberg som biografgare och filmproducent i Malm och Kpenhamn (Stockholm/Lund: Symposion Bokfrlag, 1988) [Sensations from a Backyard. Frans Lundberg as Film Producer and Cinema Owner in Malmoe and Copenhagen](1986) Frn filmljud till ljudfilm. Svenska experiment med Oddlig teater, Sjungande bilder och Edisons Kinetophon 1903-1914 (Stockholm: Proprius frlag, 1986) [From Film Sound to Sound Film. Swedish Experiments with Immortal Theatre, Singing Pictures and Edisons Kinethophone, 19031914 (1983) The Searchers: En filmanalys (co-authored with Sven ke Heed), Malm: Liber frlag [The Searchers. An Analysis](1981) Filmteori. Filmanalys, Jan Olsson (ed.), (Lund: Studentlitteratur, 1981) [Film Theory. Film Analysis](1979) Svensk spelfilm under andra vrldskriget (Lund: Liber frlag. Diss., 1979) [Swedish Feature Films during Second World War](1976) Regissrens roller. Samtal med Alf Sjberg (Co-edited with Gunnar Lundin), (Staffanstorp: Cavefors frlag, 1976) [The Directors Roles. Interviews with director Alf Sjberg]

Awards and Nominations (2006) Allegories of Communication: Intermedial Concerns from Cinema to the Digital was nominated as book of the month by the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies at the University of San Francisco (2002) Finalist and special commendation for the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award. Awarded for Nordic Explorations: Film Before 1930(1998) Belle van Zuylen Honorary Professor at the University of Utrecht(1986) The Robin Hood Medal for outstanding research in film history. Awarded for From Film Sound to Sound Film

Recent Committee Work/ReaderMember of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies committee for Distinguished Career Award (2014-16);University of Southern California (tenure track 2014); Columbia University (hiring 2013 and 2014); University of St. Andrews (hiring 2013); UCLA (hiring 2010); Northwestern University (tenure track 2009); University of Iowa (hiring 2009). Reader for Routledge, Wiley-Blackwell; University of California Press; John Libbey Publishing; Film History, Popular Communication; Celebrity Studies; Reinvention.

Faculty Opponent for Doctoral DissertationsBergen (Halse, 2014); Lund (Gustafsson, 2008); Copenhagen (Nielsen, 2006); Oslo (Solum, 2002); Copenhagen (Tyberg, 1997); East Anglia (Fullerton, 1992); Trondheim (Myrstad,1988); Stockholm; (Qvist, 1986).

Recent Talks as Invited SpeakerUniversity of Gothenburg 2015; Nanyang University, Singapore 2014; Scandinavian Studies Interest Group, Seattle 2014; Urbana-Champaign 2013; University of Gothenburg 2013; Stockholm University 2013 (Television 2.0); Lund University 2013; Stockholm University 2012 (Stillers Best); Colorado Springs, 2011 (Pikes Peak Annual Symposium); City University, Hong Kong 2011, 2010, 2009; Northwestern University 2009.

Recent Conference PapersScreen Dreams and Western Fantasies: Merton as Archetype, (American Culture Association, Albuquerque 2014)Feeding Gossip: Alfred Hitchcocks Marketing Model, (JMComm, Phuket 2013)Nameless Meets Clueless: Everyday Space in Transition, (On Location, UC Berkeley 2013) Hitchcock: Celebrity in Motion, (Celebrity Studies Conference, Melbourne 2012)The Chicago Crusade in 1907, (American Studies Association, San Juan 2012)Mediated Celebrity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, (City University, Hong Kong 2012) Co-organizerDigital Methodologies for Screen Histories (SCMS, Boston 2012)No paper. Co-organizer. Mediated Celebrity: The Sports Version, (Stockholm University, 2012) No paper. Co-organizer. (Medium to Medium, Stockholm (KB), 2011)Hitchcocks Family Album, (Popular Culture Association, San Antonio 2011)Film Exhibition: The Single-Projector Model, (Impact Conference, Montreal 2011)Still(s) Moving: Alfred Hitchcocks Photographic Archive, (Rethinking Media Archivism, Stockholm (KB), 2010) Co-organizer.Stiller Interrupted, (Domitor, Toronto 2010)Modernity Stops at Nothing, (SCMS, Los Angeles 2010) From Homely to Comely: The Reinvention of the Cosmopolitan Heroine, (Women Pioneer, Bologna 2010)From Vicious Gangster to Humble Detective: The Ethnic Casting of Warner Oland, (Rethinking American Studies: The Gangster Version, Stockholm (KB) 2009) Co-organizer.Alfred Hitchcock as Television Theorist, (INA/Paris 8, Paris 2009)Love Letters and Xenophobia: A Serial Queen at Hearsts New York Evening Journal, (SCMS, Tokyo 2009)

Essays in Press: Cadrer les appels muets: la tlphonie en termes cinmatographiques, in Alain Bouillat/Laurent Guido (eds.), Loin des yeux... le cinema: Imaginaries visuels des technologies de telecommunication (Paris: ditions Lge dHomme), 2015 (translation of essay in 2004.2)Exhibition Practices in Transition: Spectators and Audiences in the Single-Projector Era, in The Impact of Technologies, Andr Gaudreault, ed., (Amsterdam UP, 2015)Pressing Matters: Media Crusades Before the Nickelodeon, Film History (2015)

Contracted Essays Griffith Reformatted: From Biograph to Birth of a Nation, in A Companion to D.W. Griffith, Charlie Keil, (ed.), (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)

Funded NetworkUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor Ramona Curry for a program funded by Inspire (Illinois-Sweden Program for Educational and Research Exchange) Program title: Re-Inscribing Transnational and Local Cultural Discourses in American Cinema Historiography

Most Recent Research Projects From Business Pure and Simple to Cultural Heritage (The Swedish Research Council, 2010-13)Five previous projects financed by VR and its predecessor 1987-2004; Institutional Grant funded by STINT for cooperation between Stockholm University and University of Southern California, 2001-2004. Scores of minor grants.

Supervised DissertationsLund UniversityLars Gustaf Andersson, nglarnas barn en studie av Pier Paolo Pasolinis filmer, 1992Professor, Lund UniversityErik Hedling, Lindsay Anderson och filmens estetik, 1992Professor, Lund UniversityGran Wernstrm, Medvetet/omedvetet och filmberttande. En studie i Akira Kurosawas film "Sju Samurajer", 1996

bo AkademiJohn Sundholm, Populrt berttande och offentlighetsujet, excess, den sociala detektiven och den privata familjen, 1999Professor, Stockholm University

Stockholm Universityrjan Roth-Lindberg, Skuggan av ett leende. Om filmisk ironi och den ironiska berttelsen, 1995Senior Lecturer, Stockholm University; retiredMargareta Rnnberg, TV-tittande som dialog. P vg mot en symbolisk-interaktionistisk TV-teori, 1996Senior Lecturer, Hgskolan i GvleTrond Lundemo, Bildets opplsning. Filmens bevegelse i historisk og teoretisk perspektiv, 1996Senior Lecturer, Stockholm UniversityMoira Sullivan, An Anagram of the Ideas of Filmmaker Maya Deren. Creative Work in Motion Pictures, 1997Part-time Lecturer; involved in various film festivalsBo Florin, Den nationella stilen. Studier i den svenska filmens guldlder, 1997Senior Lecturer, Stockholm University. Bengt Bengtsson, Ungdom i fara. Ungdomsproblemet i svensk spelfilm 1942-62, 1998 (Prize for best dissertation in the humanities at Stockholm University)Senior Lecturer, Hgskolan i GvleMats Bjrkin, Amerikanism, bolsjevism och korta kjolar. Filmen och dess publik i Sverige under 1920-talet, 1998Senior Lecturer, Gothenburg UniversityJohn Alexander, Screen Play, 1999Freelance scholar, consultant to film schools and television corporations.Per Vesterlund, Den glmde mannen. Erik Hampe Faustman, 2000Senior Lecturer, Hgskolan i GvlePer Persson (now Rohdin), Understanding Cinema. Constructivism and Spectator Psychology, 2000Network Consultant, Valtech ABJan Holmberg, Frttade bilder. Filmens nrbilder i historisk och teoretisk belysning, 2000Head, The Ingmar Bergman Archives, Swedish Film InstitutePelle Snickars, Svensk film och visuell masskultur 1900, 2001Professor, Ume Universityke Walldius, Patterns of Recollection. The Documentary Meets Digital Media, 2001Senior Lecturer at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)Bert Fridlund, No Room to Die. A Structuralist Study of the Content of Spaghetti Westerns, 2002Researcher (SCB, Stockholm)Ylva Habel, Modern Media, Modern Audiences. Mass Media and Social Engineering in the 1930s Swedish Welfare State, 2002Senior Lecturer, Sdertrns hgskolaMats Rhodin, Vildsvinet i filmens trdgrd : metaforbegreppet inom filmteorin, 2003Researcher, the National Library of Sweden, Stockholm Anna Sofia Rossholm, Reproducing Languages, Translating Bodies Approaches to Speech, Translation and Cultural Identity in Early European Sound Film, 2006Senior Lecturer, Linnaeus Universitysa Jernudd, Filmkultur och njesliv i rbro 1897-1908, 2007Senior Lecturer rebro UniversityJoel Frykholm, Framing the Feature Film: Multi-Reel Film and American Film Culture in the 1910s, 2009 (Prize for best dissertation in the humanities at Stockholm University)Research Fellow, project financed by the Swedish Research CouncilAnne Bachmann, Locating Silent Film Culture: Connections, Contentions, Configurations, 2013

Currently supervising four doctoral students in Stockholm: Kim Fahlstedt, Gert Jan Harkema, and Tove Thorslund (all in Cinema Studies) and Elizabeth Castaldo Lundn (in Fashion Studies)

JAN OLSSON, 2015