Heidi Höglund, Ed.D., is Senior University Lecturer in Swedish (L1) and Literature Education. She holds a Title of Docent in Literary Education, international equivalent of Associate Professor. Her research work has largely focused on literature education, with a particular interest in arts-based literature teaching, poetry pedagogy, curricular frameworks and purposes of literature education, and picturebooks in secondary literature education. She is also engaged in exploring theoretical and methodological perspectives on researching literature education. Recently, her work has explored post-theoretical and post-qualitative inquiry within the field of literature education. She is principal investigator for the research projects Growing into Literature: Advancing Theories and Practices in Literature Education (2025–2029) and Complex Picturebooks in Secondary Literary Education (2020–2025). 

Höglund is a member of the organizing team for Nordic Research Network on Literature Education, coordinator for the international Special Interest Group Research on Literature Education and editorial board member of Journal for Research in Arts and Sports Education, JASEd.