Priscilla Marie Ringrose

About

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 leading the Norwegian Research Council project (2023-2026) Family Reunification and Unaccompanied Refugee Minors: Psychosocial Health, Integration and Support Services (FAMREUN) which is researching the psychosocial health and integration of unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) who have been reunited with their families in Norway, and on the support services who work with them. The aim of the project is to gain knowledge of these young people’s experiences of family reunification, and of the health and integration services’ experiences of working with URM who have been family-reunited, as well as to optimize the quality, competence, effectiveness, and cooperation between these services.

As of April 2026, I will be leading a second Norwegian Research Council project, Refugees’ Belonging and Participation for Inclusive Rural Areas (REMAIN). The project examines what is needed for refugees to thrive and participate in rural communities, as well as which strategies and incentives can increase the likelihood that they will stay. Research will be conducted in four rural municipalities in Norway. We will establish local consultation panels with refugees to gain insight into what it is like to live and work in rural Norway. The project follows an interdisciplinary approach, with contributions from cultural studies, sociology, social anthropology, gender studies, rural studies, and migration and integration studies.

I was also a WP leader in the Norway Norway-Japan: Bridging Research and Education in Gender Equality and Diversity (NJ_BREGED) project, a three-year research and teaching collaboration (2019 - 2022) between the Center for Gender Research (CGR) at Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at NTNU (Norway) and the Institute for Gender Studies (IGS) at Ochanomizu University (Tokyo, Japan) in the fields of gender equality and diversity. Following this project, I participated in the Teaching Gender Equality and Diversity in in Norway and Japan UTFORSK project (2021-2025).

From 2017 to 2020, I was leader of the Norwegian Research Council FINNUT (Research and Innovation in the Educational Sector) project, Language, Integration, Media, which researched and developed innovative and engaging learning opportunities for Norwegian and migrant secondary school age students, with the aim of improving academic and integration outcomes.

Between 2011 to 2016, I led a Norwegian Research Council VAM (Welfare, Working Life and Migration) funded project. 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 published on medializations of ‘granny’ au pairing services in France. I have also researched 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).

Publications

2021

Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ringrose, Priscilla; Ishii-Kuntz, Masako. (2021) Gender and home in Japan and Norway: Considering the past and contemplating the future.
Academic chapter
Ishii-Kuntz, Masako; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2021) Introduction: Comparative perspectives on gender in Japan and Norway.
Academic chapter
Ishii-Kuntz, Masako; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2021) Comparative Perspectives on Gender Equality in Japan and Norway. Same but different?. Routledge
Anthology
Ishii-Kuntz, Masako; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2021) Preface and Acknowledgements.
Introduction in anthology
Ringrose, Priscilla; Ishii-Kuntz, Masako; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes. (2021) Conclusion: Comparative perspectives on gender equality in Japan and Norway: Reflections and lesson learnt.
Academic chapter
Skotnes, Christian Engen; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2021) Problematisk integrering i en norsk småby: fortellinger om konflikt og samfunnsbygging.
Academic chapter
Svendsen, Stine H. Bang; Ask, Kristine; Øygardslia, Kristine; Skotnes, Christian Engen; Ringrose, Priscilla; Grut, Gunnar; Røkenes, Fredrik Mørk. (2021) Migration narratives in educational digital storytelling: which stories can be told?. Learning, Media and Technology
Academic article
Branlat, Jennifer; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2021) Masculinity in contemporary Viking and Samurai comedies: ‘It’s not really me, that fear-based leadership style stuff’.
Academic chapter

2019

Ringrose, Priscilla; Stubberud, Elisabeth. (2019) Starry starry night. Fantasies of homogeneity in documentary films about Kvens and Norwegian-Pakistanis.
Academic chapter
Ringrose, Priscilla; Stubberud, Elisabeth. (2019) The Emotional Politics of Representations of Migrant Domestic Work in Lebanon. Middle East Critique
Academic article

2016

Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Gullikstad, Berit; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2016) Buying and Selling Gender Equality: Concluding Reflections.
Academic chapter
Gullikstad, Berit; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2016) Paid Migrant Domestic Labour in a Changing Europe. Questions of Gender Equality and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan
Anthology
Gullikstad, Berit; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2016) Paid Migrant Domestic Labour, Gender Equality, and Citizenship in a Changing Europe: An Introduction.
Academic chapter
Gullikstad, Berit; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2016) Preface.
Introduction in anthology
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2016) The Intouchables: Care Work, Homosociality and National Fantasy.
Academic chapter
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2016) “Granny” au pairs in online French news media: a crueller shade of optimism?. Feminist Media Studies
Academic article

2015

Ringrose, Priscilla. (2015) Travelling nationalisms? US hip hop and the French connection.
Academic chapter

2014

Stubberud, Elisabeth; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2014) Speaking images, race-less words: Play and the absence of race in contemporary Scandinavia. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
Academic article

2013

Ringrose, Priscilla. (2013) Migrants of the New Norway: Sara Johnsen’s Upperdog. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
Academic article

2012

Folkvord, Ingvild; Ringrose, Priscilla; Thowsen, Ingfrid. (2012) Forord.
Introduction in anthology
Folkvord, Ingvild; Ringrose, Priscilla; Thowsen, Ingfrid. (2012) Skrift som livstegn: Festskrift til Sissel Lie. Tapir Akademisk Forlag
Anthology
Ringrose, Priscilla; Stenkløv, Nelly Foucher. (2012) Writing for me or writing for you? An abjective reading of Perec's W.
Academic chapter

2011

Mårtensson, Ulrika; Bailey, Jennifer Leigh; Ringrose, Priscilla; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2011) Introduction: Fundamentalism and communication: culture, media and the public sphere.
Academic chapter
Mårtensson, Ulrika; Bailey, Jennifer Leigh; Ringrose, Priscilla; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2011) Fundamentalism in the Modern World. Volume 1. I.B. Tauris
Anthology
Mårtensson, Ulrika; Bailey, Jennifer Leigh; Ringrose, Priscilla; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2011) Introduction: Fundamentalism, Politics and History: The State, Globalisation and Political Ideologies.
Academic chapter
Mårtensson, Ulrika; Bailey, Jennifer Leigh; Ringrose, Priscilla; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2011) Fundamentalism in the Modern World. Volume 2. I.B. Tauris
Anthology
Mårtensson, Ulrika; Bailey, Jennifer Leigh; Ringrose, Priscilla; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2011) Fundamentalism, politics and history : : the state, globalisation and political ideologies : introduction.
Academic chapter
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2011) Religion, Family and Modernity in Zadie Smith's White Teeth.
Academic chapter
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2011) Sharing Across the Battle Lines? Israeli and Lebanese Blogs in the 2006 Lebanon War. International Journal of Communication
Academic article

2009

Ringrose, Priscilla. (2009) Introduction. The European Legacy
Editorial
Lie, Sissel; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2009) Personal and/or Universal? Hélène Cixous's Challenge to generic Borders. The European Legacy
Academic article

2005

Ringrose, Priscilla. (2005) The Levant Company.
Encyclopedia chapter
Ringrose, Priscilla; Foucher-Stenkløv, Nelly. (2005) “Garçon Manqué” by Nina BouraouiWell-disconnected: Why globalization theories failed to account for “Nina”. Internet publication
Research report

2001

Ringrose, Priscilla. (2001) Sistre and the Semiotic: Reinscribing Desire into Language. Studien zur Literatur und Geschichte des Maghreb
Academic article

1999

Ringrose, Priscilla. (1999) "Loin de Médine" - Islamic vision or feminist revision.
Academic chapter

1998

Ringrose, Priscilla. (1998) Kristeva meets l'Amour, "la fantasia". International Journal of Francophone Studies
Academic article

Journal publications

Ringrose, Priscilla. (2007) Zadie Smith - Islam's White Teeth. Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift
Academic article
Ringrose, Priscilla; Stubberud, Elisabeth. (2019) The Emotional Politics of Representations of Migrant Domestic Work in Lebanon. Middle East Critique
Academic article
Ringrose, Priscilla; Stenkløv, Nelly Foucher. (2006) Nina Bouarouis Garcon Manqué - Väl urkopplad: Varför globaliseringsteorin inte junde redogöra för Nina?. Finsk Tidskrift (FT)
Academic article
Stenkløv, Nelly Foucher; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2006) Garcon Manqué de Nina Bouroui: Regards linguistiques et thématiques sur une ambiguïté identitaire. Lianes
Academic article
Ringrose, Priscilla. (1998) Kristeva meets l'Amour, "la fantasia". International Journal of Francophone Studies
Academic article
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2008) Review of Hiratsuka Raichō, In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese feminist Hiratsuka Raichō. The European Legacy
Book review
Stubberud, Elisabeth; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2014) Speaking images, race-less words: Play and the absence of race in contemporary Scandinavia. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
Academic article
Svendsen, Stine H. Bang; Ask, Kristine; Øygardslia, Kristine; Skotnes, Christian Engen; Ringrose, Priscilla; Grut, Gunnar; Røkenes, Fredrik Mørk. (2021) Migration narratives in educational digital storytelling: which stories can be told?. Learning, Media and Technology
Academic article
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2016) “Granny” au pairs in online French news media: a crueller shade of optimism?. Feminist Media Studies
Academic article
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2009) Introduction. The European Legacy
Editorial
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2011) Sharing Across the Battle Lines? Israeli and Lebanese Blogs in the 2006 Lebanon War. International Journal of Communication
Academic article
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2001) Sistre and the Semiotic: Reinscribing Desire into Language. Studien zur Literatur und Geschichte des Maghreb
Academic article
Lie, Sissel; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2009) Personal and/or Universal? Hélène Cixous's Challenge to generic Borders. The European Legacy
Academic article
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2013) Migrants of the New Norway: Sara Johnsen’s Upperdog. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
Academic article

Books

Ishii-Kuntz, Masako; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2021) Comparative Perspectives on Gender Equality in Japan and Norway. Same but different?. Routledge
Anthology
Gullikstad, Berit; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2016) Paid Migrant Domestic Labour in a Changing Europe. Questions of Gender Equality and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan
Anthology
Mårtensson, Ulrika; Bailey, Jennifer Leigh; Ringrose, Priscilla; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2011) Fundamentalism in the Modern World. Volume 1. I.B. Tauris
Anthology
Mårtensson, Ulrika; Bailey, Jennifer Leigh; Ringrose, Priscilla; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2011) Fundamentalism in the Modern World. Volume 2. I.B. Tauris
Anthology
Folkvord, Ingvild; Ringrose, Priscilla; Thowsen, Ingfrid. (2012) Skrift som livstegn: Festskrift til Sissel Lie. Tapir Akademisk Forlag
Anthology
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2006) Assia Djebar: In Dialogue with Feminisms. Brill | Rodopi
Academic monograph

Part of book/report

Folkvord, Ingvild; Ringrose, Priscilla; Thowsen, Ingfrid. (2012) Forord.
Introduction in anthology
Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ringrose, Priscilla; Ishii-Kuntz, Masako. (2021) Gender and home in Japan and Norway: Considering the past and contemplating the future.
Academic chapter
Ishii-Kuntz, Masako; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2021) Introduction: Comparative perspectives on gender in Japan and Norway.
Academic chapter
Ishii-Kuntz, Masako; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2021) Preface and Acknowledgements.
Introduction in anthology
Ringrose, Priscilla; Stubberud, Elisabeth. (2019) Starry starry night. Fantasies of homogeneity in documentary films about Kvens and Norwegian-Pakistanis.
Academic chapter
Ringrose, Priscilla; Ishii-Kuntz, Masako; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes. (2021) Conclusion: Comparative perspectives on gender equality in Japan and Norway: Reflections and lesson learnt.
Academic chapter
Skotnes, Christian Engen; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2021) Problematisk integrering i en norsk småby: fortellinger om konflikt og samfunnsbygging.
Academic chapter
Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Gullikstad, Berit; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2016) Buying and Selling Gender Equality: Concluding Reflections.
Academic chapter
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2015) Travelling nationalisms? US hip hop and the French connection.
Academic chapter
Gullikstad, Berit; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2016) Paid Migrant Domestic Labour, Gender Equality, and Citizenship in a Changing Europe: An Introduction.
Academic chapter
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2008) The politics and play of persuasion: Israeli and Lebanese blogs in the 2006 Lebanon War.
Academic chapter
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2008) The little drag prince of Algiers.
Academic chapter
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2008) Warlords of the Iraqi Blogosphere.
Academic chapter
Gullikstad, Berit; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2016) Preface.
Introduction in anthology
Ringrose, Priscilla. (1999) "Loin de Médine" - Islamic vision or feminist revision.
Academic chapter
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2005) The Levant Company.
Encyclopedia chapter
Mårtensson, Ulrika; Bailey, Jennifer Leigh; Ringrose, Priscilla; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2011) Introduction: Fundamentalism and communication: culture, media and the public sphere.
Academic chapter
Mårtensson, Ulrika; Bailey, Jennifer Leigh; Ringrose, Priscilla; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2011) Introduction: Fundamentalism, Politics and History: The State, Globalisation and Political Ideologies.
Academic chapter
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2016) The Intouchables: Care Work, Homosociality and National Fantasy.
Academic chapter
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2007) 'Beur' Narratives of Self-Identity: Beyond Boundaries and Binaries.
Academic chapter
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2007) Salaam Baghdad: Warblogs in the Textual and Social Economies of the Internet.
Academic chapter
Branlat, Jennifer; Ringrose, Priscilla. (2021) Masculinity in contemporary Viking and Samurai comedies: ‘It’s not really me, that fear-based leadership style stuff’.
Academic chapter
Ringrose, Priscilla; Stenkløv, Nelly Foucher. (2012) Writing for me or writing for you? An abjective reading of Perec's W.
Academic chapter
Mårtensson, Ulrika; Bailey, Jennifer Leigh; Ringrose, Priscilla; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2011) Fundamentalism, politics and history : : the state, globalisation and political ideologies : introduction.
Academic chapter
Ringrose, Priscilla. (2011) Religion, Family and Modernity in Zadie Smith's White Teeth.
Academic chapter

Report

Ringrose, Priscilla; Foucher-Stenkløv, Nelly. (2005) “Garçon Manqué” by Nina BouraouiWell-disconnected: Why globalization theories failed to account for “Nina”. Internet publication
Research report

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