Mats Arvidson (b. 1973)

PhD, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer

Hi! I am a senior lecturer in intermedial studies – a subject that I have been active in more or less since its inception around 2002-2003. This is a multifaceted field that today focuses, among other things, on the modalities of the body in the encounter with an increasingly complex world consisting of constructed media boundaries.

I have a background in musicology (PhD 2007), but have never actually worked as a musicologist since my dissertation. At the time of writing (June 2025), I am sketching out a project entitled The transboundary body. The starting point is the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy's book L'Intrus (The Intruder, 2024), which has also been adapted into a film. A central theme that I work on is the concept intermedial adoption rather than adaptation. I am also in the final stages of a book titled The Deceptive Cadence as a Metaphor for Life: Listening with Care through a Crisis Situation.

• An Imaginary Musical Road Movie
• Crisis and Culture
• CV
• I think. And I'm still not sure that I exist.