Background and activities

Background

I am Professor of Gender Studies and French Literature at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and the Department of Language and Literature. I hold an MA (Glasgow University, 1985) in French and Arabic, and worked as a translator and researcher at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK before completing my PhD (Edinburgh University, 2000) in feminist Francophone literature.

 Research Interests

My areas of research include migration and gender, migration and education, domestic labour, new media and Middle East war, Islamic fundamentalisms, intercultural cinema and 20th century francophone literature.

I am currently leader of the Norwegian Research Council FINNUT (Research and Innovation in the Educational Sector)  project (2017-2020), Language, Integration, Media, https://www.ntnu.no/isl/lim, which is researching and developing innovative and engaging learning opportunities for Norwegian and migrant secondary school age students, with the aim of  improving academic and integration outcomes.

I led a Norwegian Research Council VAM (Welfare, Working Life and Migration) funded project (2011-2016) Buying and Selling (gender) Equality: Feminized Migration and Gender Equality in Contemporary Norway. The project addressed paid domestic labour and au paring in Norway, looking at the concurrence between increasing gender equality ambitions and dependence on feminized migration. The project’s co-edited anthology Paid Migrant Domestic Labour in a Changing Europe: Questions of Gender Equality and Citizenship (Palgrave 2016) analyses the changing face of work, gender equality and citizenship in Europe. Focusing on the discourses, social relations and political processes that surround migrant domestic labour in Europe, it rethinks the vital relationship between this kind of employment, the formal and informal citizenship of migrant workers, and the cultural and political value of gender equality.

I am also interested in paid domestic labour and au pairing in other national contexts, and have recently published on medializations of ‘granny’ au pairing services in France. I am currently researching medializations of migrant domestic work in documentaries on migrant domestic labour in Lebanon.

I have co-edited two anthologies on religious fundamentalisms: Fundamentalism, Globalism and the Public Sphere and Fundamentalism and Communication: Culture, Media and the Public Sphere (both IB Tauris 2011) and have published a monograph on Assia Djebar’s feminist writing practice Assia Djebar: In dialogue with feminisms (Rodopi 2006).

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

Books

  • Gullikstad, Berit; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2016) Paid Migrant Domestic Labour in a Changing Europe. Questions of Gender Equality and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan. 2016. ISBN 978-1-137-51741-8.
  • Folkvord, Ingvild; Ringrose, Priscilla; Thowsen, Ingfrid. (2012) Skrift som livstegn: Festskrift til Sissel Lie. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. 2012. ISBN 978-82-321-0030-9.
  • Mårtensson, Ulrika; Bailey, Jennifer Leigh; Ringrose, Priscilla; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2011) Fundamentalism in the Modern World. Volume 1. I.B. Tauris. 2011. ISBN 978-1-84885-330-0.
  • Mårtensson, Ulrika; Bailey, Jennifer Leigh; Ringrose, Priscilla; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2011) Fundamentalism in the Modern World. Volume 2. I.B. Tauris. 2011. ISBN 978-1-84885-331-7.
  • Ringrose, Priscilla. (2006) Assia Djebar: In Dialogue with Feminisms. Rodopi. 2006. ISBN 90-420-1739-2.

Part of book/report

  • Ringrose, Priscilla; Stubberud, Elisabeth. (2019) Starry starry night. Fantasies of homogeneity in documentary films about Kvens and Norwegian-Pakistanis. Undoing Homogeneity in the Nordic Region: Migration, Difference and the Politics of Solidarity..
  • Gullikstad, Berit; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2016) Paid Migrant Domestic Labour, Gender Equality, and Citizenship in a Changing Europe: An Introduction. Paid Migrant Domestic Labour in a Changing Europe. Questions of Gender Equality and Citizenship.
  • Gullikstad, Berit; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2016) Preface. Paid Migrant Domestic Labour in a Changing Europe. Questions of Gender Equality and Citizenship.
  • Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Gullikstad, Berit; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2016) Buying and Selling Gender Equality: Concluding Reflections. Paid Migrant Domestic Labour in a Changing Europe. Questions of Gender Equality and Citizenship.