Dr. Alice Sundman

Alice Sundman holds a PhD in English literature from Stockholm University. Her research interests include ecocriticism, blue humanities, place and space studies, genetic criticism, phenomenology, and the intersections between literature and philosophy. Her current research focuses on literary imaginings of water in climate-changed future worlds. She recently completed a postdoctoral project at Stockholm University in which she explored literary portrayals of places of and between water and land in relation to the Anthropocene. Her monograph Toni Morrison and the Writing of Place (Routledge, 2022), which is based on her doctoral dissertation, explores the creation and presentation of Toni Morrison’s literary places.

RCC Project: Aquatic Futures: Literary Imaginings of Climate-Changed Waters (PDF, 71 KB)

Selected Publications:

• “Moving Water: Aquatic Experience in Emmi Itäranta’s Novel Memory of Water.” In The Routledge Handbook of Eco-Phenomenology, edited by Michael T. Heneise, Cassandra Falke, Espen Dahl, Alice Sundman, and Edvard Lia. Routledge, 2026. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003538097-31.
• “Secrecy and Exposure in Toni Morrison’s Paradise.” In The Politics of Transparency in Modern American Fiction: Fear, Secrecy, and Exposure. European Studies in North American Literature and Culture, edited by Paula Martín-Salván and Sascha Pöhlmann, vol. 25. Camden House, 2024. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.12771051.12.
• Toni Morrison and the Writing of Place. Routledge, 2022.