Mara Lindqvist

Postdoctoral researcher · Uppsala University

Research

I study how nineteenth-century Swedish novels represent interiority, using computational models of narrative perspective. My current work tests whether character-level language models can distinguish free indirect discourse from narration.

Before CS research

I trained as a comparative literature scholar and worked for four years as an archivist before moving into computational research.

Current fields

• Narrative understanding
• Computational literary studies

Other fields

• Comparative literature
• Archival practice

The value of these perspectives

Close reading habits and archival knowledge of print culture keep my model evaluations grounded in what the source texts actually do.