Siv Gøril Brandtzæg

Associate Professor

Department of Language and Literature

siv.brandtzag@ntnu.no +47 73596539 +47 92460080

Bygg 3, 3507, Dragvoll, Edvard Bulls veg 1

I am an associate professor in comparative literature, and the leader of the project The Norwegian Skilling Ballad, 1550-1950: Recovering a cultural heritage, funded by the Research Council of Norway. You can read more about this project on the NRC webpages, and on my research blog (link to the right: in Norwegian only).

Research interests

Broadside ballads and popular literature in Norway, Scandinavia and Europe.
Natural disasters in literature; ecocriticism.
Early modern media, literary criticism and reception studies.
Sentimental novels and female fiction; eighteenth century fiction.
Digital humanities and book history.

Publications

I have published artices and book chapters on Norwegian, Scandinavian and European broadside ballads, and articles and book chapters on British eighteenth-century fiction and media culture. The book Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century (Brill, 2018) was co-edited with Paul Goring and Christina Watson. In 2021 I am editing two mayor anthologies on Norwegian skilling ballads to be published with Scandianvian Academic Press, and a monograph with the same publisher, on natural disasters in skilling ballads.

Teaching

This semester I am teaching an MA and BA course in comparative literature, on environmental disasters in early modern European ballads (ALIT3202/2202). I have taught on BA and MA levels in both comparative literature (ALIT) and English, covering most genres and periods. I am currently supervising a PhD-student, and I am interested in supervising MA-students. Please contact me for a chat about potential topics.

Outreach experience

I take a very keen interest in contemporary literary culture, and I am regularly involved in literary festivals, reading, media interviews and panel discussions. In 2021 I am preoccupied with teaching as well as finalising book manuscripts, so I will have limited time to dedicate to outreach beyond presenting my own research.

Scientific, academic and artistic work

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Journal publications

Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril. (2020) The News Ballad in Europe, 1500–1900: konferanserapport. Puls - journal for ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology. vol. 5.
Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril. (2019) Rene toner, falske nyheter: Skillingsviser i det tidligmoderne Skandinavia. K&K: kultur og klasse. vol. 47 (128).
Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril. (2019) Singing the News in the Eighteenth Century. A Media Perspective on Norwegian Skilling Ballads. Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. vol. 74.
Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril. (2018) Skillingsvisene i Norge 1550–1950: Historien om et forsømt forskningsfelt. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. vol. 105 (2).
Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril. (2017) Advertising Novels in the Early Eighteenth-century Newspaper: Some examples from the Bodleian’s Nichols collection. Gale Cengage.
Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril. (2017) "Kakofoniske kjensler: Per Thomas Andersens Fortelling og følelse. En studie i affektiv narratologi". Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. vol. 104 (2).
Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril; Newbould, Mary; Williams, Helen. (2016) Advertising Sterne's Novels in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers. The Shandean. vol. 27.
Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril. (2015) Aversion To Imitation: The Rise Of Literary Hierarchies In Eighteenth-Century Novel Reviews. Forum for Modern Language Studies. vol. 51 (2).
Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril. (2015) «Jeg ridsede mit Navn paa Héloïses kolde Bryst» - Camilla Colletts Amtmandens Døttre i lys av den europeiske roman. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. vol. 2.
Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril. (2014) Belle Grove, or the Fatal Seduction (1771): A singular Chawton holding. The Female Spectator. vol. 18 (4).
Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril. (2014) Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire and Emma; Or, The Unfortunate Attachment: a case for de-attribution. Notes and Queries. vol. 61 (1).

Books

Goring, Paul Michael; Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril; Watson, Christine. (2018) Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century. Brill Academic Publishers. 2018. ISBN 978-90-04-36287-1. Library of the Written Word (66).

Part of book/report

Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril. (2019) Evelina på ball: sosiale transformasjoner i 1700-tallets engelske roman. Europæisk litteratur 1500‑1800. Bind 3. Samfundet. Fra hoffet til byen.
Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril; Strand, Karin Inga-Maj. (2019) The Scandinavian Skilling Ballad: A Transnational Cultural Heritage. Cheap Print and the People European Perspectives on Popular Literature.
Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril. (2018) Mercury as Merchant: The Advertisement of Novels in Eighteenth-Century Provincial English Newspapers. Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century.
Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril. (2016) Litteraturvitenskap og digital bokhistorie: Argumenter for et arrangert ekteskap. Ad Libitum. Festskrift til Gunnar Foss.
Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril. (2016) Terror and literary criticism: A reading of the epitexts of Sebastian Faulks’ A Week in December. Litteratur og terror. Volden, politikken, estetikken.
Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril. (2013) The Epistolary Novel, an annotated bibliography. Oxford Bibliographies - British and Irish Literature.
Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril. (2010) Les aspects sombres de la setimentalité. Dévier et divertir. Littérature et pensée du XVIIIe siècle.

Report/dissertation

Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril; Eliassen, Knut Ove; Goring, Paul. (2012) The Sentimental Courtship Novel and its Critics, 1769-1796. 2012. ISBN 9788247139257. Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (2012:304).
Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril; Eliassen, Knut Ove. (2005) "Clarissa og LovelaceEt rettsaksdrama i fem akter". 2005.

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