Dr. Klingborg works on nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century Scandinavian literature, with particular focus on its intersections with technologies and media networks. His research interests include literature of labor, the history of reading, night studies, educational and propaganda film, and the history of the Nordic welfare states.
He received his PhD in Literary Studies from Stockholm University in 2024. His first book, Verkar film (Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2024), examines how moving images reshaped Swedish modernist literature as film became an integral part of everyday life in the 1930s. The book is available open access: https://doi.org/10.54292/mozbxizxzu.
Currently, he is at work on two projects. One studies literary depictions of workers reading and writing on the job, exploring how workplace technologies and the temporalities of labor have shaped modern reading and writing practices. The other focuses on constructions of the idea of the Nordic in Scandinavian beredskapslitteratur during World War II.
In addition to his academic work, Klingborg is a literary critic and regular contributor to the Swedish daily newspaper Expressen.
