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
I teach Norwegian on both main teacher education programs, at the B.A. and M.A. level, as well as continuing education for teachers. My teaching mainly concerns literary studies and literature education.
Research Interests
- Gender, sexuality, and identity in literature
- Adaptation and intertextuality
- Problems of the canon in literary eduaction
- Ecocritical and ecological perspectives
- Fundamental issues of literature education
Research groups
Fundamental issues of literature education
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
- (2020) "Akin to Peer Gynt" -- Remolding Peer in Adaptation. European Journal of Scandinavian Studies. vol. 50 (1).
- (2018) Anachrony, Disability, and the Gay Man. Depictions of the Deviant in Two Norwegian Novels. Lambda Nordica: Tidskrift om homosexualitet.
- (2018) Sapfisk maskulinitet. Kjønn, vitalisme og dekadanse i Margareta Subers Charlie. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. vol. 105 (3).
- (2018) Å bli som ein kar: Patriarkat, erotikk og homososialitet hjå Vesaas og Sveen. Norsk Litterær Årbok.
- (2017) Avhandling: Den opne løyndomen. Homografiske lesingar i Åsmund Sveens forfattarskap. Norsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift. vol. 19 (2).
- (2017) Livet i vald: Antisolidarisk vitalisme i nokre dikt av Åsmund Sveen. Lambda Nordica: Tidskrift om homosexualitet.
- (2017) Tantalizing idylls: Nature and unattainable pleasures in Gay and Lesbian literature. Scandinavian Studies. vol. 89 (3).
- (2016) Ein eksemplarisk kulturkamp. Åsmund Sveens litterære engasjement for Nasjonal Samling. Norsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift. vol. 19 (1).
- (2016) Louise Labés feministiske epistel: Ein eksklusiv fellesskap. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. vol. 40 (1).
- (2012) Louise Labé: «Nouvelle Sappho» eller «créature de papier»?. Norsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift. vol. 15 (2).
Books
- (2020) Kritisk teori i litteraturundervisningen. Fagbokforlaget. 2020. ISBN 9788245028027.
Part of book/report
- (2016) «Det fins så mange langsler å spekulere i». Den transtekstuelle forbindelsen mellom Åsumd Sveen og Alf Prøysens dikt. Ad Libitum. Festskrift til Gunnar Foss.
- (2016) Homosexuality as Decadence in Norwegian Modernism: The Tenebrous Sides of Vitality in Åsmund Sveen’s Andletet. States of Decadence: On the Aesthetics of Beauty, Decline and Transgression across Time and Space, Vol. 1.
Report/dissertation
- (2017) Den opne løyndomen. Homografiske lesingar i Åsmund Sveens forfattarskap. 2017. ISBN 978-82-326-2238-2.
- (2011) Frigjerande fragment: Ei lesing av Sapfo og Louise Labé. 2011.