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 received my PhD in musicology in 2007, but have never worked in this discipline; on the contrary, I have instead seen intermedial studies as an open field with potential for greater freedom of my thinking.

Since 2026, I have been 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.

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.