Background and activities
I am an Associate Professor in Nordic Literature in the Department of Language and Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I am primarily interested in how literature relates to history and politics. I have investegated these relations both in contemoprary literature and in the modernist tradition. Currently I am studying how the emergence of the commercial print culture in the late 1800s affected a society accustomed to slower rythms of publication, focusing especially on the impact it had on the developement of the Norwegian realist novel.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2017) I Nasjonens tjeneste. Norske forfatterjubileer 2006-2010. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. vol. 104 (4).
- (2016) Doktorens hjørne: Presentasjon av avhandlingen "Men Livet lever. Hamsuns vitalisme fra Pan til Ringen sluttet". Norsk litteraturvitenskapelig tidsskrift.
- (2016) REAKSJONÆR RADIKALISME HAMSUNS VITALISTISKE POETIKK. Nordlit.
- (2014) Hamsuns dansende tale. Vagant.
- (2012) På vei hjem? Om reisens funksjon i Hamsuns forfatterskap. Hamsun-selskapets skriftserie. vol. 28.
- (2012) Var vitalismen verdinøytral? Om Knut Hamsun og vitalismen. Nordica.
Part of book/report
- (2019) Pleasure Is Not Fun: The Locus Amoenus in Knut Hamsun. Mutating Idylls. Uses and Misuses of the Locus Amoenus in European Literature, 1850–1930.
- (2017) Hamsuns vitalisme. Vitalisme, Victoria, språk : rapport fra Hamsun-dagene 2016.
Report/dissertation
- (2015) Men Livet lever. Hamsuns vitalisme fra Pan til Ringen sluttet. 2015. ISBN 978-82-326-1232-1.