Stockholm, 9 December 2022

The Future of Life

Nobel Week Dialogue

A photo of Camila Brudin Borg

Camilla Brudin Borg concluded her education at the University of Gothenburg with a PhD in Literary studies in 2005. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen.

Camilla Brudin Borg specialises in ecocriticism and literary futures studies such as cli-fi and utopias. She works extensively with outreach concerning the key role of the humanities in taking on the environmental challenges we are facing today.

She concluded her education at the University of Gothenburg with a PhD in literary studies in 2005. Her thesis about the Swedish author Lars Gyllensten was acknowledged with an award from the Swedish Academy. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen.

She is PI for the citizen science research project Utopian stories, a collaboration between the Department of Literary Studies and Centre of Digital Humanities at the University of Gothenburg, the Bolin Centre for Climate Research at Stockholm University, and the Nobel Prize Museum, which aims to collect utopian future stories to find new ways to connect storytelling with efforts to model and reduce greenhouse gas estimations.

She has published works on ecocriticism and walking narratives and is the convener of The Ecogroup, an environmental humanities seminar series at the University of Gothenburg and initiator and PI of the international walking research network Won by walking. She is passionate about communicating her discipline to young citizens.