Helena Wulff facts for kids
Helena Wulff, born on February 7, 1954, is a professor at Stockholm University. She studies social anthropology, which is about understanding how people live and interact in different societies. Her work looks at how we communicate and what we find beautiful, especially in things like writing, dance, and art.
What Helena Wulff Studies
Helena Wulff's early research looked at youth culture (how young people live) and ethnicity (different cultural backgrounds). Today, she is an expert in how culture is expressed through dance, art, images, and text, especially across different countries. She also studies visual culture (how we see and understand things), emotions, and media.
She has done research in many places, including Stockholm, London, New York City, Frankfurt-am-Main, and Ireland (mostly Dublin). Currently, she is studying how people who have moved to Sweden write about their experiences.
Based on her research, Professor Wulff teaches courses on topics like Media anthropology (how media affects culture), Visual Culture, Communication and Aesthetics, and how anthropologists write.
Helena Wulff's Global Connections
Helena Wulff has been a visiting professor at several universities around the world. These include the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the USA, the National University of Singapore, the University of Vienna in Austria, and the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. She also held a special visiting professorship at the University of East London.
She used to be the main editor for Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, a journal for the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). She was also the Vice President of EASA and the Chair of the Swedish Anthropological Association (SANT).
Helena Wulff helps guide a big research project called "Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures." This project looks at how literature from different parts of the world connects and spreads.
She also helps edit two book series: "Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology" and "Dance and Performance Studies." She is part of the advisory boards for several academic journals, which means she gives advice on what articles to publish.
Books by Helena Wulff
Helena Wulff has written and edited many books. Here are a few examples:
- In 2017, she wrote Rhythms of Writing: An Anthropology of Irish Literature, which explores Irish literature.
- In 2016, she edited The Anthropologist as Writer, a book about how anthropologists write their research.
- She also wrote Dancing at the Crossroads: Memory and Mobility in Ireland in 2007, focusing on dance in Ireland.
- In 1998, she wrote Ballet across Borders, which looks at the careers and culture of ballet dancers around the world.
