Maria Karlsson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature and Rhetoric, Uppsala University. Her books include Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture (with Margareta Dancus and Mats Hyvönen, 2020); Lagerlöfs läsare (Lagerlöf’s Readers; with Jenny Bergenmar, Makadam 2022), about readers’ letters to Nobel-prize winning author, Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940); and Lyssnaren och döden (The Listener and Death), a book on true crime podcasts (with Mats Hyvönen, Makadam, 2025).