Jayne Svenungsson


Jayne Christine Svenungsson is a Swedish theologian and writer.
Svenungsson received her PhD on the dissertation Guds återkomst: En studie av gudsbegreppet inom postmodern filosofi in 2004. Since 2015 she has been professor of systematic theology at Lund University.
She received the Karin Gierow prize, awarded by the Swedish Academy for important contributions to popular education, in 2015.
In September 2017, Svenungsson was elected to the Swedish Academy. She was installed on 20 December 2017, succeeding Torgny Lindgren on seat 9. She left the Academy on 7 November 2018.