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Alexander Stagnell

Professor

Department of Communication and Culture

Biography

Alexander Stagnell is Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at BI Norwegian Business School specializing in rhetoric. His research sits at the intersection of rhetorical theory, history of ideas, political philosophy, and the study of institutional discourses, with a particular focus on how language shapes and is shaped by political and economic institutions — and what this means for questions of democracy, truth, and public life.

Stagnell holds a PhD in Rhetoric from Uppsala University, where he defended his dissertation The Ambassador's Letter: On the Less Than Nothing of Diplomacy in 2019. A revised version was subsequently published by Routledge as Diplomacy and Ideology: From the French Revolution to the Digital Age (2020). He was previously a visiting PhD Fellow at l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and he has had postdoctoral stints at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is affiliated Docent in Rhetoric at Södertörn University and a researcher at the Department of Literature and Rhetoric, Uppsala University.

His current research is funded by Formas – A Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development, and examines the rhetoric of Sweden’s Riksbank in relation to climate change, under the project title Sustainable Economies? Sveriges Riksbank and Climate Change. The project investigates how Sweden's central bank has approached its new sustainability mandate and how it communicates on questions where economic and environmental concerns intersect. Stagnell’s scholarship has appeared in Philosophy & Rhetoric, Filozofski vestnik, and Crisis and Critique, among other venues.

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Publications

Scientific publications In the media Other

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Crisis and Critique 12(1) p. 324-341

Article Alexander Stagnell (2024)

Retorikens värde: Kan retoriken tänka det nya?

Rhetorica Scandinavica 28(89) p. 86-102 Doi: https://doi.org/10.52610/rhs.v28i89.315

Filozofski Vestnik 44(1) p. 53-73 Doi: https://doi.org/10.3986/fv.44.1.03

Distincto - Journal of Intersubjective Studies 2(2) p. 110-110 Doi: https://doi.org/10.56550/d.2.2.4

Article Alexander Stagnell (2023)

Ironier och katakreser

Rhetorica Scandinavica 85 p. 1-20 Doi: https://doi.org/10.52610/rhs.v27i85.88

Anthology Alexander Stagnell, David Payne, Gustav Strandberg (2023)

Populism and The People in Contemporary Critical Thought: Politics, Philosophy, and Aesthetics

Bloomsbury Academic

Rhetorica Scandinavica 20(74) p. 55-71 Doi: https://doi.org/10.52610/rhs.v20i74.59

Shadows in the Cave. Revisiting Rosengren's Doxology. p. 277-295 Doi: https://doi.org/10.52610/gomx2908

Rhetorica Scandinavica 24(81) p. 48-64 Doi: https://doi.org/10.52610/rhs.v24i81.21

S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique 13 p. 46-62

Article Alexander Stagnell (2021)

Något-intet-den?

Res Cogitans 15(1) p. 42-42 Doi: https://doi.org/10.7146/rc.15132022

Philosophy & Rhetoric 53(2) p. 134-156 Doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.53.2.0134

Chapter Alexander Stagnell (2015)

Retorikens spöken

Förledd och förtjust: Andra generationens retorikvetare tar ordet p. 73-85 Doi: https://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:805811/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Book Alexander Stagnell (2013)

Etik, retorik, politik - Till tvetydighetens lov

Södertörns högskola Doi: https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:857004/FULLTEXT01.pdf

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Academic Degrees
Year Academic Department Degree
2019 Uppsala Universitet Philosophiae doctor
2012 Uppsala University Master of Arts
2009 Södertörn University Bachelor of Arts
Work Experience
Year Employer Job Title
2026 - Present BI Norwegian Business School Professor
2025 - 2026 FOI Researcher
2022 - 2024 Université libre de Bruxelles Postdoctoral Fellow
2021 - 2024 Södertörn University Postdoctoral Fellow
2022 - 2022 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Junior Researcher
2019 - 2021 Södertörn University Senior Lecturer
2015 - 2019 Södertörn University PhD Fellow
2014 - 2015 École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Visiting PhD Fellow
2012 - 2014 Södertörn University PhD Fellow
2010 - 2012 Södertörn University Lecturer