Leif Dahlberg

Leif Dahlberg received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Stockholms universitet and Yale University. Before teaching Communication and Media studies at KTH he taught as senior lecturer of Comparative Literature at Linköpings universitet and Stockholms universitet. He has had visiting positions at Beijing Daxue (Peking University), Birkbeck College (University of London), and Södertörns högskola. 

Dahlberg teaches media and theoretical texts that range from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. He has written on German Romanticism, European Modernism, Narratology, Media history, Law and Literature, Advertising, and New media. 

He has recently completed a research project on the construction and representation of legal spaces in law, literature and political philosophy in works from Greek antiquity to the present. His next project deals with questions of law, mobility and technology, focusing on topics such as free mobility in the EU; irregular migration and legal rights; biometrics, postcolonialism and law; ICT, surveillance and privacy.

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