(Full) Professor of Scandinavian languages at Uppsala University since 2002

• Visiting Professor at University College London, 2005.
• Visiting Professor at University of Kalmar, 2001.
• (Full) Professor of Swedish at Uppsala University, 2000-2002.
• Visiting Associate Professor at University of California at Berkeley 1998.
• Senior Lecturer (tenured) of Swedish at Uppsala university, 1996-2000.
• Associate Professor (non-tenured) of Scandinavian languages at Uppsala University, 1992-2000.
• Various part-time research appointments (see past research projects below).
• Various part-time positions as Senior Lecturer (non tenured) in Swedish at Uppsala University 1990-1996.
• Ph. D. Uppsala university 1990 Runrön 3.

Teaching

Courses on basic, advanced and doctoral levels

Current teaching

• Lectures within preparatory, beginners', and advanced courses offered at the department.
• Runologi (Runology) 7.5 hp, Thematic course, language history, doctoral level, 7.5 hp.

Research interests

• Communicative principles for decoding rune-stone texts

• The Social dimension of runestones

• Medieval accounts

• The origin of the runes

• Personal names

• Runiform inscriptions in North America. 2010: Lecture tour in the United States.

Ongoing research projects

The original version of Edda Snorra Sturlusonar? Studies in Codex Upsaliensis together with Maja Bäckvall, Lasse Mårtensson. Heimir Pálsson, and Jonatan Pettersson.
Financed 2008-2010 by The Swedish Research Council.

Scandinavian Runic-text Data base now together with Marco Bianchi, Magnus Källström, Jan Owe, and Lena Peterson.
Financed 1993-1997 by Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson's Foundation. Still in operation.

Past research projects

Medeltidens ekonomiska texter (Financial texts during the Middle Ages) together with Zeth Alvered, Lennart Elmevik, and Evert Melefors.
Financed 1997-1999 by The Swedish Research Council.

Sveriges kristnande (The Christianization in Sweden) together with Stefan Brink, Anne-Sofie Gräslund, Carl Fredrik Hallencreutz, Jan Arvid Hellström, Håkan Möller, and Bertil Nilsson.
Financed 1990-1995 by The Swedish Research Council.

De vikingatida runinskrifternas kronologi (The Chronology of Viking Age Runic Inscriptions) together with Jan Axelson, Lennart Elmevik, Svante Lagman, Lena Peterson, and Marit Åhlén.
Financed 1987-1989 by The Swedish Research Council.

Doctoral student supervision

Assistant advisor for completed dissertation by:

• Thorgunn Snædal (Uppsala university) Medan världen vakar. Studier i de gotländska runinskrifternas språk och kronologi. While the world wakes. Studies in the language and chronology of the runic inscriptions of Gotland. 2002
• Patrik Larsson (Uppsala university) Användning och ljudvärde i nordiska runinskrifter. The ýr-rune. Use and phonetic value in Scandinavian runic inscriptions. 2002
• Yair Sapir (Uppsala university) Modern Icelandic word formation. 2003
• Jessica Eriksson (Uppsala university) Metta Magdalena Lillies dagbok. En 1700-talstext och dess språk. 2004
• Helena Wistrand Bebrevat i Närke. Medellågtyska importord i fornsvenska brev ur regionalt perspektiv. Verbrieft in Närke. Mittelniederdeutsche Lehnwörter in altschwedischen Urkunden aus einer regionalen Perspektive. 2007
• Lasse Mårtensson (Uppsala university). AM 557 4to. Studier i en isländsk samlingshandskrift från 1400-talet. AM 557 4to: Studies in a fifteenth century Icelandic compilation manuscript. 2007
• Charlotta Busing (Uppsala university) Licentiate thesis: Textbruk i en häradsrätt på 1500-talet. En receptionsfilologisk undersökning av Dalarnas äldsta dombok. 2008
• Marco Bianchi (Uppsala university) Runor som resurs. Vikingatida skriftkulturi Uppland och Södermanland. Runen als Ressource. Wikingerzeitliche Schriftkultur in Uppland und Södermanland. 2010

Main advisor för on-going projects:

• Agnieszka Backman (Uppsala university) "Saknar betydelse för textkritiken". Studier i den fornsvenska samlingshandskriften Fru Elins bok
• Maja Bäckvall (Uppsala university) Eddadikterna i Uppsalaeddan
• Stefan Jacobsson (Uppsala university) Studier i nordisk hypokorismbildning
• Sonia Steblin-Kamenskaya (Uppsala university) Runamuletter från vikingatid till medeltid

Co-advisor for on-going project

• Alexandra Petrulevich (Uppsala university) Namnanpassning som process: En undersökning av västslaviska ortnamn i Knýtlinga saga

Miscellaneous

Current posts

• Member of the electoral college of the Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, from 2011, and of the consulting body for nominating a new university president, 2011.
• Co-editor of Futhark: Isländska sällskapet (The Icelandic Society) 2007-2011.
• Member of the editorial board of Språktidningen 2007-2010.
• Vice Dean, Faculty of languages, 2005-2007.
• Member of the electoral college of the Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2002-2008, and its electoral committee, and president of said committee, 2005-2008.
• Member of the faculty board, Faculty of languages, 2002-2008.
• Secretary of Isländska sällskapet (The Icelandic Society), 1986-1992.