His current research focuses Swedish popular music history and social media, and he has previously worked as Lecturer at the Universities of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Södertörn. He is also a board member of the Swedish national section of the ICTM. His dissertation "Minnets spelrum" ('A margin for memory', 2005) dealt with the role of music and collective memory in the formation of pensionerhood in Sweden. His most recent book Retrologier ("Retrologies" 2014) is about the production and negotiation of history in transnational networks, focusing on Swedish progressive rock of the 1970s. Hyltén-Cavallius' publications include articles on popular music and memory, popular icons, memory and media and futurist nostalgia in journals such as Popular Music, Ethnologia Scandinavica, and IASPM@journal.