About the Author

Jon Helgason, PhD and Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Lecturer in Icelandic at Linnaeus University. His most recent works include two co-authored monographs (2015, 2017) on literary value and value regimes in the contemporary literary and cultural sphere in Sweden, as well as two co-edited research anthologies on bestseller phenomena (2014) and performativity and performance theory (2016), respectively. Helgason is former chairman of the Swedish Art Councils Literature Committee (20162019).