Eva Hemmungs Wirtén

Eva Hemmungs Wirtén is Professor in Library and Information Science and Associate Professor [Docent] in Comparative Literature, Uppsala University, Sweden. Currently funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area), she is writing a book preliminarily entitled Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property, Celebrity Culture, and the Power of Print.

Publications include: No Trespassing: Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization (2004) and Terms of Use: Negotiating the Jungle of the Intellectual Commons (2008), both University of Toronto Press. Recent articles/chapters include: “A Diplomatic Salto Mortale: Translation Trouble in Berne, 1884-1886” for Book History (14) 2011, and “Plants, Pills, and Patents: Circulating Knowledge” in Intellectual Property and Emerging Biotechnologies, Eds. Matthew Rimmer and Alison McLennan, Edward Elgar, 2012.

Website: www.evahemmungswirten.se