Sami Sjöberg is Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Studies (tenure) at the University of Jyväskylä and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at several Finnish universities. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Avant-Garde Studies. His international collaborations and research visits have included KU Leuven, Université PSL, Freie Universität Berlin, and the universities of Cambridge, Copenhagen, Iceland, and Antwerp.
His research focuses on avant-garde and experimental literature, with particular interests in multimediality and interartiality, science and epistemology, literary multilingualism, book studies and the cultural history of experimental writing. He has published widely on European avant-garde literature, experimental and conceptual writing, twentieth-century French literature and philosophy, Jewish studies, and transnational literary cultures.
His books include The Jewish Vanguard: A Cultural Moment (Brill, 2025) and The Vanguard Messiah: Lettrism between Jewish Mysticism and the Avant-Garde (De Gruyter, 2015). He has also co-edited The Experimental Book Object: Materiality, Media, Design (Routledge, 2023) and Jewish Aspects in Avant-Garde: Between Rebellion and Revelation (De Gruyter, 2017), as well as special issues for leading international journals, including Textual Practice and Angelaki.
His articles have appeared in journals such as Orbis Litterarum, French Studies, Modernist Cultures, Image & Narrative, Partial Answers, Arcadia, and Literature & Theology.
For a complete list of publications, please consult his ORCID and ResearchGate profiles.
ResearchGate address: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sami-Sjoeberg
ORCID link: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3279-4058
My research is focused on avant-garde theory and experimental literature; experimental and conceptual writing; literary multilingualism; 20th-century French literature, philosophy and cultural history; cultural geography (especially transnationalism and literary history); book studies and artist’s books; Jewish studies and mysticism.