Eli Løfaldli
Eli Løfaldli
Professor, Deputy Head of Research at the Department of Language and Literature
eli.lofaldli@ntnu.no
About
Research
Adaptation and appropriation
I work on the various ways in which literary and other material is used, re-used, reworked and rewritten in other texts and for new contexts. My research has centred on the practical and theoretical aspects of different forms of appropriation, such as translation, imitation, edition and adaptation for film and television.
Eighteenth-century literature
Much of my research has dealt with eighteenth-century literature and culture, and with authors such as Henry Fielding, Charlotte Lennox. Richard Graves and Laurence Sterne. I have a particular interest in investigating how this period is understood and represented today, and I am currently working on projects on the interactions between the past and the present in biographical and autobiographical films and texts that deal with eighteenth-century individuals.
Masculinities
Representations of masculinity, both in the eighteenth century and today, is another recurring theme in my research. Examples are investigations into how notions of manhood are appropriated, adapted and translated as the genre of Nordic Noir is being exported to new contexts and how male heterosexuality has been framed and conceptualised in modern and eighteenth-century texts.
Research groups:
The Politics of Rewriting
Literary and Cultural Eighteenth-Century Studies (LACES)
Teaching and supervision
English literature, most often within the areas of adaptation and appropriation studies and eighteenth-century literature.
Links:
Publications
2025
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2025)
Å skrive om andre: Etikk i litteratur og film.
Academic chapter
2022
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2022)
The Ideological Recontextualisation of Modern Fatherhood in Scandinavian and British Nordic Noir Crime Series.
Modern Languages Open
Academic article
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2022)
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PRIVATE LIFE WRITING AS EVIDENCE OF MEN'S SEXUAL PRACTICES: CASE REOPENED.
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Academic article
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2022)
“What’s in a Name?” Authorship as (Micro)Genre in
the Paratext of the Hogarth Shakespeare Project.
Interfaces: Image, Texte, Language
Academic article
2019
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2019)
'Leave the Character of Graveairs in the Country': Reading Tom Jones through the lens of Tom Jones And Tom Jones.
Academic chapter
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Greenall, Annjo Klungervik;
Løfaldli, Eli.
(2019)
Translation and Adaptation as Recontextualization: The Case of The Snowman.
Adaptation
Academic article
2018
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2018)
From Biographical Text to Biopic: Adapting the Cultural Memory of the Eighteenth Century.
1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Academic article
2017
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2017)
Staging Henry Fielding: The Author-Narrator in Tom Jones On Screen.
Authorship
Academic article
2016
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2016)
'The Terrorist as Quixote: The Case of Anders Behring Breivik'.
Academic chapter
2015
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Jones, Tom;
Løfaldli, Eli.
(2015)
Appropriation of and in the eighteenth century.
Forum for Modern Language Studies
Academic article
2012
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2012)
Quixotic Book Consumption in Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews.
Academic chapter
2008
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Løfaldli, Eli;
Hawthorn, Jeremy;
Goring, Paul.
(2008)
Less of a Man:: Quixotism and Masculinities in Eighteenth-Century Fiction.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
2004
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Goring, Paul Michael;
Løfaldli, Eli.
(2004)
Sterne's Nordic Presence: Denmark, Norway, Sweden.
Academic chapter
2003
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Goring, Paul Michael;
Løfaldli, Eli.
(2003)
'A Sentimental Journey through Germany, Denmark and Sweden: a note on sources for early Scandic translations of Sterne'.
The Shandean
Academic article
2000
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2000)
Female Quixotism. A Study of Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Tabitha Gilman Tenney's Female Quixotism.
Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier
Research report
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2000)
Domesticating the knight errant: Arabella's closet in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote.
Academic chapter
Journal publications
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2022)
The Ideological Recontextualisation of Modern Fatherhood in Scandinavian and British Nordic Noir Crime Series.
Modern Languages Open
Academic article
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Goring, Paul Michael;
Løfaldli, Eli.
(2003)
'A Sentimental Journey through Germany, Denmark and Sweden: a note on sources for early Scandic translations of Sterne'.
The Shandean
Academic article
-
Løfaldli, Eli.
(2022)
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PRIVATE LIFE WRITING AS EVIDENCE OF MEN'S SEXUAL PRACTICES: CASE REOPENED.
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Academic article
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Jones, Tom;
Løfaldli, Eli.
(2015)
Appropriation of and in the eighteenth century.
Forum for Modern Language Studies
Academic article
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2017)
Staging Henry Fielding: The Author-Narrator in Tom Jones On Screen.
Authorship
Academic article
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Greenall, Annjo Klungervik;
Løfaldli, Eli.
(2019)
Translation and Adaptation as Recontextualization: The Case of The Snowman.
Adaptation
Academic article
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2018)
From Biographical Text to Biopic: Adapting the Cultural Memory of the Eighteenth Century.
1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Academic article
-
Løfaldli, Eli.
(2022)
“What’s in a Name?” Authorship as (Micro)Genre in
the Paratext of the Hogarth Shakespeare Project.
Interfaces: Image, Texte, Language
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2000)
Domesticating the knight errant: Arabella's closet in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote.
Academic chapter
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2019)
'Leave the Character of Graveairs in the Country': Reading Tom Jones through the lens of Tom Jones And Tom Jones.
Academic chapter
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Goring, Paul Michael;
Løfaldli, Eli.
(2004)
Sterne's Nordic Presence: Denmark, Norway, Sweden.
Academic chapter
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2025)
Å skrive om andre: Etikk i litteratur og film.
Academic chapter
-
Løfaldli, Eli.
(2016)
'The Terrorist as Quixote: The Case of Anders Behring Breivik'.
Academic chapter
-
Løfaldli, Eli.
(2012)
Quixotic Book Consumption in Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews.
Academic chapter
Report
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Løfaldli, Eli.
(2000)
Female Quixotism. A Study of Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Tabitha Gilman Tenney's Female Quixotism.
Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier
Research report
Student thesis or dissertation
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Løfaldli, Eli;
Hawthorn, Jeremy;
Goring, Paul.
(2008)
Less of a Man:: Quixotism and Masculinities in Eighteenth-Century Fiction.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
Outreach
2022
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Conference lectureLøfaldli, Eli. (2022) Fictionalised treatments of traumatic events: Cultural memory in adaptation. Memory Moves: Approaching Distant Memory
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Conference lectureLøfaldli, Eli. (2022) New Conceptions, New Conventions: Eighteenth-Century Lives on Screen. AAS Conference: (In)Visible Adaptation: Diversity and Inclusion
2019
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Conference lectureLøfaldli, Eli. (2019) (Il)legitimate Appropriation: A Question of Ethics or Aesthetics?. Literary Citizenship
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Interview
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Interview
2018
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Conference lectureLøfaldli, Eli. (2018) Exporting Ideology: Modern Fatherhood in Nordic Noir Crime Series. Watching the Transnational Detectives: Showcasing Identity and Internationalism on British Television
2017
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Conference lecture
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Conference lectureLøfaldli, Eli; Greenall, Annjo Klungervik. (2017) Translation and Adaptation as Recontextualization: The Case of Nordic Noir. Intersemiotic Translation, Adaptation, Transposition: Saying Almost the Same Thing?
2016
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Interview
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Conference lectureLøfaldli, Eli. (2016) 'Representations of the Author-Narrator in Tom Jones (1749, 1963, 1997)'. Authorship and Appropriation
2015
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Conference lectureLøfaldli, Eli. (2015) 'Leave the Character of Graveairs in the Country': Eighteenth-Century London in Adaptation. Adaptation and the Metropolis
2014
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Conference lectureLøfaldli, Eli. (2014) Mind the Gap: Methodological Challenges in Adaptation Studies. 'There and Back Again': Adaptation as Oscillation
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LectureLøfaldli, Eli. (2014) Masteroppgaven i lektorprogrammet: Disiplinfag og/eller fagdidaktikk?. Masteroppgaven i NTNUs lektorutdanning
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Interview
2013
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LectureLøfaldli, Eli. (2013) 'The long expected ball at Netherfield' on screen. Kjærlighet i 200 år: En hyllest til Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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Conference lectureLøfaldli, Eli. (2013) The terrorist as quixote: Truth vs. fiction. Litteratur og terror (NorLit-konferansen 2013)
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Conference lectureLøfaldli, Eli. (2013) Uncovering male modesty. The Eighteenth Century in Practice: The First Nordic Conference for Eigheenth-Century Studies
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Interview
2011
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Conference lecture
2010
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Conference lectureLøfaldli, Eli. (2010) Literary Appropriation in the Eighteenth Century: Theoretical Challenges and Methodological Problems. British Society of Eighteenth-Century Society Annual Conference
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Conference lectureLøfaldli, Eli. (2010) Appropriation in and of Eighteenth-Century Culture. Appropriation in and of Eighteenth-Century Culture
2009
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Conference lectureLøfaldli, Eli. (2009) The Wigless Wildgoose:The Semiotics of the (Absent) Wig in Richard Graves’ The Spiritual Quixote. BSECS 38th Annual Conference
2003
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LectureLøfaldli, Eli. (2003) 'From Rönnerdahl to Colin Firth: Travelling Snapshots of Don Quixote'. The English Section Research Seminar
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Conference lectureLøfaldli, Eli. (2003) 'Negotiating Gender in Literary Criticism; Or, Literary Critics Negotiating Gender'. Forskning og Samfunn (HFITK801)
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Conference lectureLøfaldli, Eli. (2003) ''So Dull and Insensible a Knight': Cervantic Bed-Hopping and Quixotic Chastity'. Travelling Gender Theory
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Conference lectureGoring, Paul Michael; Løfaldli, Eli. (2003) "The Scandinavian reception of Laurence Sterne". The second conference presenting contributions to a multi-authored project on Laurence Sterne's European reception
2002
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LectureAngelsen, Anja; Greenall, Annjo Klungervik; Løfaldli, Eli. (2002) The EDIT project, and some reflections on translation from a dialogical perspective. The English Department Research Seminar