[1] She is Professor of Literature and head of department at Södertörn University outside Stockholm,[1] and a well-known feminist.

She has since written a number of texts on St. Bridget of Sweden, Victoria Benedictsson and Edith Södergran[1] (among others).

In 2010 she published a history of the feminist movement in Sweden, 'Å alla kära systrar (For all dear sisters).

Witt-Brattström was the Dag Hammarskjöld Visiting Professor at the Department for Northern European Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 2008.

Between 1989 and 2014 Ebba Witt-Brattström was married to Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.