Person

Mats Arvidson (b. 1973)

PhD, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer (Lund, Brisbane, Gothenburg, Lund)

I am a senior lecturer in intermedial studies – a subject that I have been active in since its inception around 2002–2003. This is a multifaceted field that today focuses on the modalities of the body in the encounter with an increasingly complex world consisting of constructed media boundaries. I see intermedial studies primarily as an open field with potential for freedom to think with the body. Since 2026, I am working on the project The transboundary body, based on the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy's book L'Intrus (The Intruder, 2024). Here, intermedial studies and medical humanities meet in a new and exciting way. To be more specific:

”My work explores how listening to the lived body, especially in illness and crisis, reshapes how we think and interpret life. At this intersection of experience and reflection, the humanities become a way of understanding what it means to be human.”

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