The Queerlit project team consists of literary scientists, librarians, information scientists and technicians. The project group includes:
Jenny Bergenmar, project manager, is professor of literature at the University of Gothenburg. She has previously worked on several projects in digital humanities and is affiliated with the Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities at the University of Gothenburg. Her research includes work on Selma Lagerlöf and other female authors, the importance of literature for readers from different contexts, and she is currently developing a new project on literature and disability. For more about her research, see: https://www.gu.se/om-universitetet/hitta-person/jennybergenmar
Koraljka Golub is a researcher in library and information science at Linnaeus University. With her background in research in subject metadata, she has an advisory role in Queerlit. Golub also takes care of surveys aimed at identifying the needs of different users of the sub-database. For more on her research, see: https://lnu.se/en/staff/koraljka.golub/
Karin Henning is a university librarian at KvinnSam, Gothenburg University Library. There she works with indexing in the database KVINNSAM, i.e. trying to describe literature in women’s history and gender research with keywords. The Queerlit database is included as a sub-database in Libris, just like the KVINNSAM database, and Henning’s work in Queerlit includes support on indexing.
Sam Holmqvist, project researcher, has a PhD in literary studies and defended their thesis on trans motifs in 19th century Swedish literature. Since then, they have published several articles on trans history. In addition to Queerlit, Holmqvist currently teaches gender studies at Södertörn University. For more on Holmqvist’s research, see: https://www.sh.se/kontakt/forskare/sam-holmqvist.
Siska Humlesjö, project assistant, system librarian and research engineer, has previously worked with library systems, metadata and systems integration at both research and public libraries. She has worked with LGBTQI literature as a reviewer and writer.
Olov Kriström is a librarian with a passionate interest in queer books—preferably old and overlooked. In Queerlit, Kriström is responsible for creating the thesaurus that is used to index the literature with keywords, that enables searches in the database.
Sebastian Lönnlöv is a librarian and literary critic, with a master’s degree in both literature and library and information science. He has written the bibliography “HBTQ: Böcker bortom normen” (2014) and runs ”Skeva sidor,” wich lists queer literature. In Queerlit, Lönnlöv works with the list of titles that will be included in the sub-database.
Arild Matsson is a research engineer at the Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities at the University of Gothenburg. He has a master’s degree in language technology and works half-time for the Center for Digital Humanities and half-time for Språkbanken Text. As a research engineer, Matsson is responsible for technical solutions in research. In Queerlit as well as in other projects, this mainly means web development high and low: including server configuration, databases, computational algorithms, web services and user interfaces.