Karolina Drozdowska
+4773412707
Bygg 3, 3504, Dragvoll
About
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.
Publications
2026
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2026)
»Under the Stones, Poland Did Moan«. Imagining Poland’s Political Struggle in Norwegian Poetry 1814–1905.
NORDEUROPAforum
Academic article
2025
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2025)
Ferdig, ja, men ikke ferdig. Oversettelse av Lars Myttings Hekne-trilogi som operasjon på en levende organisme.
Nordisk tidsskrift for oversettelses- og tolkeforskning (NTOT)
Academic article
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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
2024
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2024)
Comparative literature and Decoding the Complexities of the Baltic Sea Region.
nordics.info
Academic article
2023
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2023)
A stereotype that deconstructs itself. Representations of Danes and Denmark in Joanna Chmielewska’s crime novels.
Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia
Academic article
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2023)
«Å utsette den andre døden»: Snublesteiner i norsk litteratur.
Scandinavistica Vilnensis
Academic article
2022
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2022)
Sailing from Illness to Health: Spaces in Gaute Heivoll’s Kongens hjerte.
Studia Scandinavica
Academic article
2021
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2021)
The wonder down under – joys and sorrows of translating sexuality from Norwegian into Polish.
Academic chapter
2020
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2020)
The Others from Across the Sea – Eastern Europe and Eastern Europeans in Modern Norwegian Literature.
Archiwum Emigracji
Academic article
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2020)
Oversetteren i et multimedialt nettverk. Om den polske oversettelsen av Julie Andems SKAM-manuser.
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica
Academic article
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2020)
Over lande- og sjangergrenser. Hamsun i det polske teateret.
Nordlit
Academic article
2019
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2019)
From Scandinavia to Poland through Italy and then back again. Eugenio Barba and Odin Teatret as an intercultural medium.
Academic chapter
2018
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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.
Academic chapter
2017
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2017)
Fra Ornitofilene til Fugleelskerne. En analyse av tekstutvikling (Notater fra et forskningsbesøk i Holstebro).
Studia Scandinavica
Academic article
Journal publications
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2026)
»Under the Stones, Poland Did Moan«. Imagining Poland’s Political Struggle in Norwegian Poetry 1814–1905.
NORDEUROPAforum
Academic article
-
Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2025)
Ferdig, ja, men ikke ferdig. Oversettelse av Lars Myttings Hekne-trilogi som operasjon på en levende organisme.
Nordisk tidsskrift for oversettelses- og tolkeforskning (NTOT)
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
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2022)
Sailing from Illness to Health: Spaces in Gaute Heivoll’s Kongens hjerte.
Studia Scandinavica
Academic article
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2024)
Comparative literature and Decoding the Complexities of the Baltic Sea Region.
nordics.info
Academic article
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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
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2017)
Fra Ornitofilene til Fugleelskerne. En analyse av tekstutvikling (Notater fra et forskningsbesøk i Holstebro).
Studia Scandinavica
Academic article
-
Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2023)
«Å utsette den andre døden»: Snublesteiner i norsk litteratur.
Scandinavistica Vilnensis
Academic article
Part of book/report
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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.
Academic chapter
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2019)
From Scandinavia to Poland through Italy and then back again. Eugenio Barba and Odin Teatret as an intercultural medium.
Academic chapter
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Drozdowska, Karolina.
(2021)
The wonder down under – joys and sorrows of translating sexuality from Norwegian into Polish.
Academic chapter
-
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
Teaching
Courses
Outreach
2026
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Conference lectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2026) Epistemic Responsibility for the Region: Eastern Europe in Norwegian Literature. Narrated Lives: Biography in the Baltic Sea Region
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Conference lectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2026) “Then babble, babble, words, like the solitary child who turns himself into children”: Caring for the Deconstructed Subject in Kjersti Anfinnsen’s Deathwork. Narrating Critical Events from the Perspective of Care
2025
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Conference lectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2025) Epistemisk urettferdighet og reell politikk: forestillinger om Ukraina i norsk skjønnlitteratur 2023-2024. NGS konferansen Trondheim 2025
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Conference lectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2025) The digital 19th century, or can Digital Humanities save academia. Nordic Studies Scholars Facing the Changes of the Modern World
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Contribution to radio or TV
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LectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2025) Norge gjennom litteraturen: Et blikk utenfra og innenfra. Norge gjennom litteraturen: Et blikk utenfra og innenfra
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Conference lectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2025) Representasjoner av Russlands invasjon av Ukraina i den nyeste norske litteraturen. IASS-konferansen
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InterviewDrozdowska, Karolina. (2025) „Grey People”? Eastern Europeans in Norwegian Literature. In Conversation with Karolina Drozdowska.
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Conference lectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2025) Simultaneous Crisis Narratives. Russia’s Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine in Norwegian Fiction from 24.02.2022 to 24.02.2025. Seminaret "From Crisis to 'Permacrisis'"
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InterviewDrozdowska, Karolina. (2025) Karolina Drozdowska "A Translator is an author who brings the world to the reader".
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Lecture
2024
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Contribution to radio or TV
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Conference lectureDrozdowska, 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
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Conference lecture
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Conference lectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2024) Antroposof eller marxist? Jens Bjørneboes lyrikk. DiktLek - forelesning og verksted
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Conference lectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2024) Podium: Research priorities and impulses Topicality of Peripeties in the Baltic Sea Region: Literatures, Histories, Politics. Resonant Conflicts Turning Points in the Baltic Sea Region
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Conference lectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2024) Thank heavens for Eastern Europe! Imagining Poland in Norwegian literature after 2004 and vice versa. Interdisciplinary Approach to the Baltic Sea Region Lecture Series
2023
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LectureDamgaard, Sofie Anker-Møller; Drozdowska, Karolina; Kleveland, Anne Karine. (2023) Men er det bra? – Utenforskap. Men er det bra? Litteraturhusets kritiske panel
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Conference lectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2023) Down with the doxa: an autoethnographic study of knowledge regime transgression. 6th Nordic Challenges conference
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Lecture
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Conference lectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2023) Spatiale skifter som veien mot lykke i tre romaner av Nina Lykke. IASS-konferanse
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LectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2023) Bokbad - samtale med vinneren av NTNUs litteraturpris. NTNUs litteraturpris
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LectureDrozdowska, Karolina; Domsa, Zsofia; Refsum, Anne Sigrid. (2023) Men er det bra? - panelsamtale og podcast. Men er det bra? Tre nye bøker
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LectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2023) Hva betyr KI for opphavsretten? - panelsamtale. NORLAs oversetterkonferanse 2023
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Conference lectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2023) Thor, Pippi and Putin The Power of Myth – Metatheoretical Framing / Interrogation of the Worlds we Live by. CBSS Summer University 2023
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LectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2023) Anarkisten Bjørneboe. Diskusjonsklubb på Ivar Matlaus Bokkafé på Svartlamon
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LectureDrozdowska, Karolina; Kleveland, Anne Karine. (2023) Men er det bra? Utenforskap - panelsamtale. Men er det bra?
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LectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2023) Eksport og nettverk – trender i Norges nyeste litteratur. Gjesteforelesning
2022
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LectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2022) Å snu diskursen: Skjønnlitterær oversettelse og politikk i Polen. Norsk oversetterforenings høstseminar
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Conference lectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2022) The role of literary agencies in global circulation of Norwegian literature. Nordic Literatures as World Literature Conference
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Conference lectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2022) Ideas about motherhood in the newest Norwegian literature and their international circulation – the Polish case. Nordic model(s) and their international circulations
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Conference lectureDrozdowska, Karolina. (2022) Å oversette kjønn og seksualitet fra norsk til polsk – et praktisk perspektiv. Omskrivingens politikk V