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Astrid Rasch

Astrid Rasch

Associate Professor
Department of Language and Literature

astrid.rasch@ntnu.no
+4773559235 Bygg 5, 5572A, Dragvoll
Google Scholar Literatures of Change: Culture and Politics in Southern Africa @realSocialMedia - by Trondheim Analytica
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About

CV

I'm an Associate Professor of Anglophone Cultural Studies at the Department of Language and Literature. My research examines memory culture at the end of the British Empire with a particular focus on memoirs from Zimbabwe, Australia and the Caribbean, and post-imperial memory politics in contemporary Britain. I hold a master and a PhD in English from the University of Copenhagen. In addition, I have studied at Monash University, Melbourne and been a visiting doctoral fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. I am a co-chair of the Nordic regional group of the Memory Studies Association.

I teach the courses ENG1404 (Britain and the World after 1945) and ENG2455 (Memory Politics After Empire). In addition, I am happy to supervise masters theses within the areas of society and culture of the English-speaking world, postcolonial studies, imperial history, and modern literature, in particular life writing and postcolonial literature.

Professional interests

  • Memory politics
  • Decolonisation
  • British, Australian, Caribbean and Zimbabwean history and society
  • Autobiography
  • Nostalgia
  • Online memory culture

Research projects

  • Leader of research project: Trondheim Analytica (2018-2024)
  • Leader of research network: Literatures of Change: Culture and Politics in Southern Africa (2019-2023)
  • Co-organiser of research network: Anglophone Political Cultures
  • Leader of research network: Decolonial Research Group (2018-2020)
  • Member of research project: The Embers of Empire (2013-2018)
  • PhD fellow: Autobiography After Empire: Individual and Collective Memory in Dialogue (2013-2016)

Editorial work

  • Editor of the special issue on Writing Repression in Zimbabwe for Journal of Southern African Studies (with Minna Niemi and Jocelyn Alexander, 2021)
  • Editor of the anthology Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain (with Stuart Ward, 2019)
  • Editor of special issue on Life Writing After Empire for Life Writing (2016)
  • Guest editor of Kvinden&Samfundet (Woman and Society) (2009)

Scholarly and professional work

I provide expert commentary on British and Zimbabwean affairs on Danish national television and radio. 
Together with colleagues and students, I have helped set up platforms for Scandinavian students and researchers concerned about climate change. I have written op-eds on the narrative challenges of tackling climate change.

PhD students

Tóra Djurhuus: The Legacy of the Past in Brexit Britain (primary supervisor: Sara Dybris McQuaid). Defended 3 June 2022.

Anna Bil-Jaruzelska: Emotion and Identity Politics on Social Media

Kristine Graneng: Migration sentiments and attitudes towards European integration: Migration discourses in EU referenda (primary supervisor: Pieter de Wilde)

Competencies

  • Australia
  • Autobiography
  • Brexit
  • Decolonization
  • Memory studies
  • Social media
  • Zimbabwe

Publications

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2021

  • Rasch, Astrid. (2021) Anxious Reading: Interrogating Selective Empathy in Trauma Memoirs. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
    Academic article
  • Rasch, Astrid. (2021) Subversion or Identity Work? Tracing the Reception of Zimbabwean Counter-Narrative Memoirs. Journal of Southern African Studies. volum 47 (5).
    Academic article
  • Rasch, Astrid; Niemi, Minna Johanna; Alexander, Jocelyn. (2021) Reading Repression and Resistance in Zimbabwean Literature. Journal of Southern African Studies. volum 47 (5).
    Editorial

2020

  • Rasch, Astrid. (2020) Increasing student preparation and participation through flipped classroom and other measures. Læring om læring. volum 5 (1).
    Article

2019

  • Rasch, Astrid. (2019) “Keep the balance”: The Politics of Remembering Empire in Post-Colonial Britain. Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. volum 7 (2).
    Academic article
  • Ward, Stuart; Rasch, Astrid. (2019) Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain. Bloomsbury Academic. 2019. ISBN 9781350113794.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Ward, Stuart; Rasch, Astrid. (2019) Introduction: Greater Britain, Global Britain. Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2018

  • Rasch, Astrid. (2018) Postcolonial Nostalgia: The Ambiguities of White Memoirs of Zimbabwe. History and Memory. volum 30 (2).
    Academic article
  • Rasch, Astrid. (2018) The Family Connection: White Expatriate Memoirs of Zimbabwe. Journal of Southern African Studies. volum 44 (5).
    Academic article

2017

  • Rasch, Astrid. (2017) Life Writing After Empire. Routledge. 2017. ISBN 978-1-138-22321-9.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Rasch, Astrid. (2017) Review: How Empire Shaped Us, edited by Antoinette Burton and Dane Kennedy. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. volum 45 (1).
    Book review

2016

  • Rasch, Astrid. (2016) Autobiography After Empire: Individual and Collective Memory in Dialogue. 2016.
    Doctoral dissertation
  • Rasch, Astrid. (2016) Editorial: Life Writing After Empire. Life Writing. volum 13 (2).
    Editorial
  • Rasch, Astrid. (2016) 'This Union-Jacked Time': Memories of Education as Post-Imperial Positioning. Life Writing. volum 13 (2).
    Academic article

2015

  • Rasch, Astrid. (2015) A Postcolonial Education: Using End of Empire Autobiographies to Introduce Postcolonial Studies. European journal of life writing. volum 4.
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Rasch, Astrid. (2021) Anxious Reading: Interrogating Selective Empathy in Trauma Memoirs. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
    Academic article
  • Rasch, Astrid. (2021) Subversion or Identity Work? Tracing the Reception of Zimbabwean Counter-Narrative Memoirs. Journal of Southern African Studies. volum 47 (5).
    Academic article
  • Rasch, Astrid; Niemi, Minna Johanna; Alexander, Jocelyn. (2021) Reading Repression and Resistance in Zimbabwean Literature. Journal of Southern African Studies. volum 47 (5).
    Editorial
  • Rasch, Astrid. (2020) Increasing student preparation and participation through flipped classroom and other measures. Læring om læring. volum 5 (1).
    Article
  • Rasch, Astrid. (2019) “Keep the balance”: The Politics of Remembering Empire in Post-Colonial Britain. Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. volum 7 (2).
    Academic article
  • Rasch, Astrid. (2018) Postcolonial Nostalgia: The Ambiguities of White Memoirs of Zimbabwe. History and Memory. volum 30 (2).
    Academic article
  • Rasch, Astrid. (2018) The Family Connection: White Expatriate Memoirs of Zimbabwe. Journal of Southern African Studies. volum 44 (5).
    Academic article
  • Rasch, Astrid. (2017) Review: How Empire Shaped Us, edited by Antoinette Burton and Dane Kennedy. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. volum 45 (1).
    Book review
  • Rasch, Astrid. (2016) Editorial: Life Writing After Empire. Life Writing. volum 13 (2).
    Editorial
  • Rasch, Astrid. (2016) 'This Union-Jacked Time': Memories of Education as Post-Imperial Positioning. Life Writing. volum 13 (2).
    Academic article
  • Rasch, Astrid. (2015) A Postcolonial Education: Using End of Empire Autobiographies to Introduce Postcolonial Studies. European journal of life writing. volum 4.
    Academic article

Books

  • Ward, Stuart; Rasch, Astrid. (2019) Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain. Bloomsbury Academic. 2019. ISBN 9781350113794.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Rasch, Astrid. (2017) Life Writing After Empire. Routledge. 2017. ISBN 978-1-138-22321-9.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

Part of book/report

  • Ward, Stuart; Rasch, Astrid. (2019) Introduction: Greater Britain, Global Britain. Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Report

  • Rasch, Astrid. (2016) Autobiography After Empire: Individual and Collective Memory in Dialogue. 2016.
    Doctoral dissertation
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