CV in brief
- 1970: BA at Lund University (Latin, Scandinavian languages)
- 1981: Ph.D. at Lund University (Scandinavian languages)
- 1988: Appointed Docent (Reader) at the University of Gothenburg
- 1981–2002: Junior Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer and Professor in Scandinavian Languages/Swedish, mainly at the universities of Lund, Gothenburg and Uppsala
- 2002–2008: Professor of Swedish at Åbo Akademi University, Finland
- Since 2008: Emeritus Professor, residing in Uppsala
Member of the the Societas Litterarum Humaniorum Regia Upsaliensis
Honorary member of the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland