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Karolina Drozdowska

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Karolina Drozdowska

Associate Professor
Department of Language and Literature

karolina.drozdowska@ntnu.no
+4773412707 Bygg 3, 3504, Dragvoll
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Associate Professor of Nordic Literature, works mainly with recent Norwegian prose and literary representations of place and space. Member of the international research project Baltic Peripeties, and the research group Literature as a Social Resource, affiliated with the ImagiNation project at NTNU. I am particularly interested in representations of Central and Eastern Europe in Norwegian literature.

Jury leader for NTNUs Literary Award in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

I also works as a translator of fiction from Norwegian to Polish, and am a member of the Polish Literary Translators' Association.

 

Competencies

  • Actor Network Theory
  • Contemporary Norwegian Fiction
  • Literature and geography
  • Postcolonial studies
  • Translation studies

Research

  • Baltic Peripeties
  • Literature as a Social Resource
  • ImagiNation

Publications

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2025

  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2025) Vennskap, kjærlighet og kunsten å gå videre. Metafiktiv veileder–student-relasjon i Klara Hvebergs Lene din ensomhet langsomt mot min.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2024

  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2024) Comparative literature and Decoding the Complexities of the Baltic Sea Region. nordics.info
    Academic article

2023

  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2023) «Å utsette den andre døden»: Snublesteiner i norsk litteratur. Scandinavistica Vilnensis
    Academic article
  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2023) A stereotype that deconstructs itself. Representations of Danes and Denmark in Joanna Chmielewska’s crime novels. Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia
    Academic article

2022

  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2022) Sailing from Illness to Health: Spaces in Gaute Heivoll’s Kongens hjerte. Studia Scandinavica
    Academic article

2021

  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2021) The wonder down under – joys and sorrows of translating sexuality from Norwegian into Polish. Freie Universität Berlin
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2020

  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2020) The Others from Across the Sea – Eastern Europe and Eastern Europeans in Modern Norwegian Literature. Archiwum Emigracji
    Academic article
  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2020) Oversetteren i et multimedialt nettverk. Om den polske oversettelsen av Julie Andems SKAM-manuser. Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica
    Academic article
  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2020) Over lande- og sjangergrenser. Hamsun i det polske teateret. Nordlit
    Academic article

2019

  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2019) From Scandinavia to Poland through Italy and then back again. Eugenio Barba and Odin Teatret as an intercultural medium. Peter Lang Publishing Group
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2018

  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2018) Contraste, étrangeté, expérience – genèse et réception de la pièce Fugleelskerne (Les Amateurs d’Oiseaux) de Jens Bjørneboe à la lumière de la collaboration de l’auteur avec Eugenio Barba. Peter Lang Publishing Group
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2017

  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2017) Fra Ornitofilene til Fugleelskerne. En analyse av tekstutvikling (Notater fra et forskningsbesøk i Holstebro). Studia Scandinavica
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2024) Comparative literature and Decoding the Complexities of the Baltic Sea Region. nordics.info
    Academic article
  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2023) «Å utsette den andre døden»: Snublesteiner i norsk litteratur. Scandinavistica Vilnensis
    Academic article
  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2023) A stereotype that deconstructs itself. Representations of Danes and Denmark in Joanna Chmielewska’s crime novels. Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia
    Academic article
  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2022) Sailing from Illness to Health: Spaces in Gaute Heivoll’s Kongens hjerte. Studia Scandinavica
    Academic article
  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2020) The Others from Across the Sea – Eastern Europe and Eastern Europeans in Modern Norwegian Literature. Archiwum Emigracji
    Academic article
  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2020) Oversetteren i et multimedialt nettverk. Om den polske oversettelsen av Julie Andems SKAM-manuser. Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica
    Academic article
  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2020) Over lande- og sjangergrenser. Hamsun i det polske teateret. Nordlit
    Academic article
  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2017) Fra Ornitofilene til Fugleelskerne. En analyse av tekstutvikling (Notater fra et forskningsbesøk i Holstebro). Studia Scandinavica
    Academic article

Part of book/report

  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2025) Vennskap, kjærlighet og kunsten å gå videre. Metafiktiv veileder–student-relasjon i Klara Hvebergs Lene din ensomhet langsomt mot min.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2021) The wonder down under – joys and sorrows of translating sexuality from Norwegian into Polish. Freie Universität Berlin
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2019) From Scandinavia to Poland through Italy and then back again. Eugenio Barba and Odin Teatret as an intercultural medium. Peter Lang Publishing Group
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Drozdowska, Karolina. (2018) Contraste, étrangeté, expérience – genèse et réception de la pièce Fugleelskerne (Les Amateurs d’Oiseaux) de Jens Bjørneboe à la lumière de la collaboration de l’auteur avec Eugenio Barba. Peter Lang Publishing Group
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Outreach

2025

  • Interview
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2025) „Grey People”? Eastern Europeans in Norwegian Literature. In Conversation with Karolina Drozdowska . nordlitt-Podcasts nordlitt-Podcasts [Internet] 2025-01-23
  • Interview
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2025) Karolina Drozdowska "A Translator is an author who brings the world to the reader". INCREC - University of Groningen podcast INCREC - University of Groningen podcast [Internet] 2025-03-26
  • Academic lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2025) Simultaneous Crisis Narratives. Russia’s Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine in Norwegian Fiction from 24.02.2022 to 24.02.2025 . Baltic Peripeties, Literature as a Social Resource Seminaret "From Crisis to 'Permacrisis'" , Trondheim 2025-05-07 - 2025-05-08
  • Lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2025) Litteraturformidling på pensum. ISL, NTNU ISL-dag 2025-06-04 - 2025-06-04

2024

  • Academic lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2024) Podium: Research priorities and impulses Topicality of Peripeties in the Baltic Sea Region: Literatures, Histories, Politics. Baltic Peripeties-prosjektet Resonant Conflicts Turning Points in the Baltic Sea Region , Trondheim 2024-05-23 - 2024-05-23
  • Academic lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2024) Antroposof eller marxist? Jens Bjørneboes lyrikk. UBB, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai DiktLek - forelesning og verksted , Cluj, Romania (online) 2024-04-19 - 2024-04-19
  • Academic lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2024) »Under the stones Poland did moan«. Imagining Poland’s political struggle in Norwegian poetry 1814–1905. Forskningsseminar Det digitale 1800-tallets litteratur og geografi 2024-12-12 - 2024-12-13
  • Programme management
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2024) Tildeling av NTNUs Litteraturpris 2024 - deltagelse av tildelingsseremonien og skriving av juryens begrunnelse / bidrag til pressemeldinger rundt prisen. offentlig arrangement på Litteraturhuset, div. pressemelding offentlig arrangement på Litteraturhuset, div. pressemelding [Internet] 2024-11-17
  • Academic lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2024) Thank heavens for Eastern Europe! Imagining Poland in Norwegian literature after 2004 and vice versa. Universitetet i Greifswald Interdisciplinary Approach to the Baltic Sea Region Lecture Series , Greifswald 2024-05-16 - 2024-05-16
  • Academic lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2024) Øst- og Sentral-Europa i norsk litteratur. ISL, NTNU ISL-dag , Trondheim 2024-05-29 - 2024-05-29

2023

  • Popular scientific lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina; Kleveland, Anne Karine; Damgaard, Sofie. (2023) Men er det bra? Utenforskap - panelsamtale. Litteraturhuset i Trondheim Men er det bra? , Trondheim 2023-09-27 - 2023-09-27
  • Popular scientific lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina; Domsa, Zsofia; Refsum, Anne Sigrid . (2023) Men er det bra? - panelsamtale og podcast. Litteraturhuset i Trondheim Men er det bra? Tre nye bøker , Trondheim 2023-04-20 - 2023-04-20
  • Academic lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2023) Down with the doxa: an autoethnographic study of knowledge regime transgression. Nordforsk, Universitetet i Oslo 6th Nordic Challenges conference , Oslo 2023-05-24 - 2023-05-26
  • Popular scientific lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2023) Bjørneboes skeive linjer. Trondheim Pride / FRI Trøndelag Trondheim Pride , Trondheim 2023-09-01 - 2023-09-10
  • Academic lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2023) Spatiale skifter som veien mot lykke i tre romaner av Nina Lykke . UiT IASS-konferanse , Tromsø 2023-08-02 - 2023-08-05
  • Popular scientific lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2023) Anarkisten Bjørneboe. Ivar Matlaus Bokkafé på Svartlamon Diskusjonsklubb på Ivar Matlaus Bokkafé på Svartlamon , Trondheim 2023-06-08 - 2023-06-08
  • Popular scientific lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2023) Bokbad - samtale med vinneren av NTNUs litteraturpris. NTNU, Litteraturhuset i Trondheim NTNUs litteraturpris , Trondheim 2023-11-07 - 2024-10-07
  • Academic lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2023) Thor, Pippi and Putin The Power of Myth – Metatheoretical Framing / Interrogation of the Worlds we Live by. The Council of the Baltic Sea States CBSS Summer University 2023 , Gdansk 2023-09-18 - 2023-09-18
  • Popular scientific lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2023) Hva betyr KI for opphavsretten? - panelsamtale. NORLA NORLAs oversetterkonferanse 2023 , Kløfta 2023-06-26 - 2023-06-28
  • Lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2023) Eksport og nettverk – trender i Norges nyeste litteratur. SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities Gjesteforelesning , Warszawa og internett 2023-11-18 - 2023-11-18

2022

  • Lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2022) Å snu diskursen: Skjønnlitterær oversettelse og politikk i Polen. Norsk oversetterforening Norsk oversetterforenings høstseminar , Jevnaker 2022-09-30 - 2022-10-02
  • Academic lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2022) The role of literary agencies in global circulation of Norwegian literature . SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities Nordic Literatures as World Literature Conference , Warszawa 2022-10-13 - 2022-10-14
  • Academic lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2022) Ideas about motherhood in the newest Norwegian literature and their international circulation – the Polish case. ReNEWExcellence Hub Re-Imagining Norden in an Evolving World Nordic model(s) and their international circulations , Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University 2022-11-29 - 2022-11-30
  • Academic lecture
    Drozdowska, Karolina. (2022) Å oversette kjønn og seksualitet fra norsk til polsk – et praktisk perspektiv. forskningsgruppen Om-Pol (ISL, NTNU) Omskrivingens politikk V , NTNU 2022-12-07 - 2022-12-07

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