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Sara Tanderup Linkisis PI in “Between Sound and Text”. She is an Associate Professor in Publishing Studies and Digital Cultures, Lund University (Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences), Sweden. Linkis holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Aarhus University (2016). Her research focuses on digital book cultures and digital literary cultures, sociology of literature, reading cultures, serial narratives. Since 2020, she has specialized in audiobooks and audiobook culture, focusing especially on how the developing audiobook format (re)shapes and challenges the concept of literature. Apart from leading “Between Text and Sound”, she also participates in the research project “Listening Pleasures: Sexual Health and Audio Fiction in the Age of Digital Intimacy” (2024-2029), funded by the Swedish Research Council and led by Jenny Sundén, Uppsala University. 

Linkis has expertise in the Danish and Swedish book markets and has written two reports for the Danish ministry of Culture on the impact of streaming services and the audiobook boom on Danish publishers’ and authors’ conditions (2025 and 2026). Her research is published and forthcoming in internationally acclaimed peer reviewed journals, including Orbis Litterarum, Narrative, Publishing Research Quarterly, Children’s Literature Association Quaterly, Convergence, LOGOS, Passage, K&K, Sound Studies and SoundEffects. She is the author of two monographs, Memory, Intermediality, and Literature: Something to hold on to (Routledge 2019) and Serialization in Literature across Media and Markets (Routledge, 2021). She has co-edited several anthologies, e.g. TikTok: Kulturella Perspektiv (Lund University Press, 2025) and Litteratur mellem medier (Aarhus University Press, 2018). She is the co-editor in chief of the peer-reviewed literary journal Passageand has co-edited several special issues on e.g. the sociology of literature (2023) audiobooks (2020), romance (2024), serial narratives (2018), and children’s literature (2016).

See more about Linkis' research here: https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/sara-tanderup-linkis/