Introduction

Per Bäckström is an associate professor at the Department of Culture and Literature, University of Tromsø, and chair of the membership commission of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM). He has published studies of the Swedish poet Bruno K. Öijer, the grotesque in the oeuvre of Henri Michaux and experimental poetry. He has published several articles on Mikhail Bakhtin, intermediality, avant-garde and neo-avant-garde. At the
moment Per Bäckström is studying the Nordic neo-avant-garde and the crossaesthetic art of Öyvind Fahlström.