Dr Sefan Bohman

Director of the Strindberg Museum in Stockholm, and formerly of the city’s Music Museum, Stefan is also Dr in Ethnology, Docent in Museology, and President of ICOM-Sweden. He is an expert on the life and times of August Strindberg.

Prof Franc Chamberlain

Prof Chamberlain is Professor of Drama at the University of Huddersfield, an expert on the theory and practise of performance, and Director, in 2010, of an English language adaptation of The Dream Play at The Granary Theatre, Cork.

Peter Graves

Previously Head of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Peter continues to be a prolific translator of Swedish literature. His projects to date - including Strindberg’s Tschandala, The Red Room, and The People of Hemsö - have been recognised through the award of the Swedish Academy Prize for Translation, and the Swedish Royal Order of the Polar Star.

Anna Cavallin

Doktorand in the Department of Comparative Literature and the History of Ideas at the University of Stockholm. Anna is currently finishing a PhD thesis focussing on the short story collections, Giftas I-II (1884-1886), where the power-relations within marriage are central, as well as gender relations and issues concerning modernity in relation to masculinity and femininity.