Ebba Witt-Brattström

Who is Ebba Witt-Brattström?

Ebba Witt-Brattström is a Swedish scholar in comparative literature. She is Professor of Literature and head of department at Södertörn University outside Stockholm, and a well-known feminist. In the 1970s she was a member of the feminist organisation Grupp 8, and in 2005 she was one of the founders of the feminist political organisation and party Feministiskt Initiativ, although she later distanced herself from the organisation and criticized its alleged strong left-wing tendencies.

Witt-Brattström completed her Ph.D. with a dissertation on the Swedish author Moa Martinson at Stockholm University in 1988. She has since written a number of texts on St. Bridget of Sweden, Victoria Benedictsson and Edith Södergran. She also translated the novel Egalia's Daughters by Gerd Brantenberg into Swedish. In 2010 she published a history of the feminist movement in Sweden, 'Å alla kära systrar.

Witt-Brattström is the Dag-Hammarskjöld-Visiting Professor at the Department for Northern European Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin since the fall term of 2008. She is currently Professor of Nordic Literature at Helsinki University, as of 2012.