
Agnieszka Backman
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, English
Honors & Awards
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Award from Torsten Janckes minnesfond, Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien (2017)
Professional Education
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Doctor of Philosophy, Uppsala Universitet (2017)
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Master of Arts, Uppsala Universitet (2010)
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Bachelor of Arts, Uppsala Universitet (2010)
Projects
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Materialities of medieval manuscripts in digital repositories, Stanford University (September 3, 2019)
The project will study the gains, losses and changes digitization and presentation of medieval Swedish manuscripts in digital repositories lead to. When manuscripts are digitized, their material traits are often impossible to translate to the digital medium. A core concept for the project is affordance from socio semiotics that describes what a design allows a user to do. I focus on the affordances of digitized medieval manuscripts and compare them with the affordances of physical manuscripts to reveal the underlying theoretical frameworks governing platforms and impacting the manuscript’s meaning.
Location
Stanford
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The Norse perception of the world – A mapping and analysis of foreign place names in medieval Swedish and Danish texts, Uppsala University (March 1, 2017 - August 30, 2019)
uu.se/norseworld
Location
Uppsala
Collaborators
- Jonathan Adams, Docent, Uppsala University
- Alexandra Petrulevich, PhD, Uppsala University
- Simon Skovgaard Boeck, PhD, Uppsala University
For More Information:
All Publications
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Medieval Macrospace Through GIS: The Norse World Project Approach
The Cartographic Journal
2019
View details for DOI 10.1080/00087041.2019.159634
- Handskriftens materialitet. Studier i den fornsvenska samlingshandskriften Fru Elins bok (Codex Holmiensis D 3). English title: The Materiality of the Manuscript: Studies in Codex Holmiensis D 3, the Old Swedish Multitext Manuscript Fru Elins bok. Nordiska texter och undersökningar. Utgivna av Björn Melander och Henrik Williams. 2017; 32 (null)
- Flores och Blanzeflor according to Cod. Holm. D 3 2015