Background and experience
My research focuses on Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetics, in particular his comprehension of the relationship between art, nature, and animals. Other research interests include early German romanticism and idealism, especially Hölderlin and Schelling. I have been Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy, Columbia University (2010) and at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge (2014).
I have also been researcher and teacher at the Department of Philosophy and at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University (2014–2017), as well as at Södertörn University, Stockholm (2012, 2013 and 2018–2021).
Teaching
Spring 2026:
FIL203/FIL400 – Applied Philosophy: Current Issues
REL500 – Master's seminar
Research
- aesthetics
- Adorno
- Schelling
- Hölderlin
- the art–nature relation
- the relationship between philosophy and poetry
- the concept of nature
critical animal studies
Selected Publications
Books
- Art, Nature, and Self-formation in the Age of Goethe (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024) (co-edited with Gerad Gentry and Mattias Pirholt)
- Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics (New York: Routledge, 2020), Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy (co-edited with Karl Axelsson och Mattias Pirholt)
Att uttrycka det undanträngda: Theodor W. Adorno om konst, natur och sanning [Expressing the repressed: Theodor W. Adorno on art, nature, and truth], diss. Uppsala universitet (Göteborg: Glänta produktion, 2009)
Scientific Articles and Book Chapters
- "Aesthetic Unity", Journal of Adorno Studies vol. 1, no 1 (2025), 70–72
- "Adorno on Nature and Animals" (published online 2025), in The Oxford Handbook of Adorno, ed. Henry Pickford and Martin Shuster, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190932527.013.28
- "Beautiful Creatures: Schiller and Goethe on Animal Freedom", in Art, Nature, and Self-formation in the Age of Goethe, ed. Gerard Gentry, Mattias Pirholt, and Camilla Flodin (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024), 165–179
- "In the Name of the Rhinoceros: Expression beyond Human Intention", in Adorno's Rhinoceros: Art, Nature, Critique, ed. Antonia Hofstätter and Daniel Steuer (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), 19–41
- "Remembering Nature Through Art: Hölderlin and the Poetic Representation of Life", Intellectual History Review vol. 31, no 3 (2021): 411–426, https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2021.1955490
- "Introduction", in Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics (New York: Routledge, 2020), (co-written with Karl Axelsson and Mattias Pirholt) Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, ed. Karl Axelsson, Camilla Flodin, and Mattias Pirholt, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429330254-1/introduction-karl-axelsson-camilla-flodin-mattias-pirholt?context=ubx&refId=ee894746-b0fa-430c-ae49-08f22ee97d77
- "Hölderlin's Higher Enligthenment", in Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics (New York: Routledge, 2020), Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, ed. Karl Axelsson, Camilla Flodin, and Mattias Pirholt, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429330254-16/h%C3%B6lderlin-higher-enlightenment-camilla-flodin?context=ubx&refId=4c7226e6-9623-41e8-b26e-fdd9647454fb
- "Adorno's Utopian Animals", in Critical Theory: Past, Present, Future, ed. Anders Bartonek and Sven-Olov Wallenstein (Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2021), 103–117
- "Art and Animals in Adorno", in Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism, ed. Robin Truth Goodman (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), 181–194
- "Introduction to Special Issue: Adorno and the Anthropocene" (co-written with Sven-Anders Johansson), Adorno Studies, vol. 3, no 1 (2019): i–iv
- "Art and the Possibility of a Liberated Nature", Adorno Studies, special issue: Adorno and the Anthropocene, vol. 3, no 1 (2019), ed. Camilla Flodin and Sven Anders Johansson, 79–93
- "Adorno and Schelling on the Art–Nature Relation", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 26, no 1, 2018: 176–196, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09608788.2017.1349648
- "'The eloquence of something that has no language': Adorno on Hölderlin's Late Poetry", Adorno Studies, vol. 2, no 1, 2018: 1–27
- "Contemplation or Manipulation? Aesthetic Perspectives on Nature and Animals from Shaftesbury to Bio-Art" (co-written with Karl Axelsson), in Retracing the Past: Historical Continuity in Aesthetics from a Global Perspective (International Yearbook for Aesthetics 2017), 29–41, ed. Zoltán Somhegyi, https://iaaesthetics.org/volume-19-zoltan-somhegyi-ed-retracing-the-past-historical-continuity-in-aesthetics-from-a-global-perspective/
- "Of Mice and Men: Adorno on Art and the Suffering of Animals", Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics, no 2, 2011, 139–156
- • "The Wor(l)d of the Animal: Adorno on Art's Expression of Suffering", Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, no 3, 2011, https://doi.org/10.3402/jac.v3i0.7987
- • "Naturen som 'alls icke omyndig' vs. 'Det finns ingen natur längre.'" [Nature as "not at all speechless vs. "There is no more nature"], in Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings No 42 (Linköping: LiU E-Press, 2010), 105–113, http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/042/009/index.html