Olle JilkénPhD Student

About me

Olle Jilkén is a doctoral student at the Department of Business Administration within the section of Management, Stockholm University. Jilkén has a bachelor's degree in Arts Management from Södertörn's Högskola and a master's degree in gender studies from Stockholm University.

Jilkén's academic interests lie in how gender and queerness is constructed and organized in society. Jilkén's current research project examines how LGBTQI-inclusive practices are performed and experienced from a Swedish context.

Jilkén has previously published critical cultural studies with perspectives of feminist media studies, queer theory and critical masculinity studies.

Jilkén is secretary at the board of the academic journal lambda nordica.

Published articles:

Jilkén, O. (2021) "A MYTHOLOGICAL NUDIST LOST IN SWEDISH SUBURBIA: A study of the Nix's masculinity and media-loric function in the manga series Oblivion High". Shima. Vol. 15. No. 2.

Jilkén, O. and Johansson, L. MJ. (2019). "Aquatic Heterosexual Love and Wondrous Cliché Stereotypes: Amphibian Masculinity, the Beast Bridegroom Motif and‘ the Other ’in The Shape of Water”. Coolabah. No. 27.

Jilkén, O. (2018) "'A Phallus out of water': The construction of mer-masculinity in modern day illustrations", Shima. Vol. 12, No. 2.

Lyric poetry:

Jilkén, O. (2023) "INKLUDERA och MÅNGFALD", Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. Vol. 30., Nr. 2, s. 679–680.