Coco Norén is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University (Sweden). She is also Professor of French, with a specialisation in argumentation, text linguistics and polyphony in modern French, in particular European parliamentary discourse and spoken practices.
Norén is former Dean of the Faculty of Languages (2014-2020). After receiving her PhD in 1999, she was a Pro Futura Fellow at the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Studies (2002-2008) and an Academy Research Fellow at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (2008-2013). In 2015 she was elected a member of the Research Leads Group in the Matariki Network (2015-2020). She currently chairs Uppsala University’s Steering Committee for ENLIGHT.