Per Esben Myren-Svelstad
Per Esben Myren-Svelstad
Associate Professor of Norwegian L1 Education
Department of Teacher Education Faculty of Social and Educational SciencesBackground and activities
I am Associate Professor of Norwegian at the Department of Teacher Education. I hold an M.A. and a Ph.D in comparative literature, both from NTNU.
Teaching
My teaching mainly concerns literary studies and literature education as part of the Norwegian L1 component in teacher education.
Research Interests
- Gender, sexuality, and identity as literary topics
- The literary canon and text selection in the L1 subject
- Ecocriticism and sustainability in literature education
- Graphic literature and adaptation studies
Research groups
Courses
- LVUT8004 - Norwegian 1 (1-7) topic 1: Norwegian for grades 1-3
- MGLU2101 - Norwegian 1 (1-7) Module 2: Language and Text 2
Scientific, academic and artistic work
Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2022) Anthropocene Melancholy: Uncanny Familiarity in Contemporary Norwegian Long Poems. NORDEUROPAforum. vol. 2022.
- (2022) The Witch in the Closet: Disney's Frozen as Adaptation and Its Potential for Queer and Feminist Readings. Scandinavian Studies. vol. 94 (1).
- (2021) Lyrisk kompleksitet i antropocen. Ein formorientert, berekraftig litteraturdidaktikk. Nordlit. vol. 48.
- (2021) The textuality of sexuality: Interpreting homosexuality in two European inter-war narratives. Comparative Literature Studies. vol. 58 (4).
- (2020) "Akin to Peer Gynt" -- Remolding Peer in Adaptation. European Journal of Scandinavian Studies. vol. 50 (1).
- (2020) Det affektive møtet mellom tekst og lesar: Tre postkritiske inngangar til å velja skjønnlitteratur i morsmålsfaget. Acta Didactica Norden (ADNO). vol. 14 (3).
- (2020) Relating Someone Else’s Story: A Comparative Reading of Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Everything I Don’t Remember and Édouard Louis’ Histoire de la violence. Revue Nordique des Études Francophones. vol. 3 (1).
- (2020) Sustainable Literary Competence: Connecting Literature Education to Education for Sustainability. Humanities. vol. 9 (4).
Books
- (2020) Kritisk teori i litteraturundervisningen. Fagbokforlaget. 2020. ISBN 9788245028027.
Report/dissertation
- (2017) Den opne løyndomen. Homografiske lesingar i Åsmund Sveens forfattarskap. 2017. ISBN 978-82-326-2238-2.
Others
- (2022) Litteraturundervisning for bærekraft: Mulighetene i dialogiske tilnærminger til komplekse tekster. Teaching Ecocriticism in Scandinavian Studies: Fifth Workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN) . Abteilung für Skandinavistik, Universitetet i Bonn; 2022-06-09 - 2022-06-10.
- (2022) PRANO - praksisforankrede norskfaglige masteroppgaver. Praksiskonferansen 2022 - Nasjonal konferanse for praksis i lærerutdanningene . DMMH og NTNU; Trondheim. 2022-05-23 - 2022-05-25.
- (2022) Estetikk og etikk. Samtale med Toril Moi. Litt.Snakk [Internett]. 2022-02-21.