Tatjana Kielland Samoilow
Associate Professor
Department of Teacher Education Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences Lysholmbygget, Kalvskinnet, E. C. Dahls gate 2
Background and activities
Research interests
Comparative literature
- Catastrophes in literature
- Representations of childhood
- Picturebooks
- Children's literature
- Family novels
- 19th century literature
Literary didactics
Children's texts
I took a Ph.D. in comparative literature with a thesis on economic discourses in Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks and several novels by the Norwegian author Alexander L. Kielland. I am especially interested in literature in the intersection between aesthetics and politics.
Research project
Children and Catastrophes in Fictional Narratives
https://www.ntnu.no/ilu/chilca
Teaching
- literature in teacher education
- supervision of master- and bachelorstudents
Positions of trust
Member of the editorial board for the journal Nordic Journal of ChildLit Aesthetics
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/zblf20/current
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
- (2015) Competence and citizenship in picturebooks: a reading of Lisa Aisato’s Fugl (Bird). Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift. vol. 6.
- (2014) Forfallets tid. En lesning av Thomas Manns Buddenbrooks og Uwe Tellkamps Der Turm. Norsk litteraturvitenskapelig tidsskrift.
- (2012) Borgerlig protestantisk etikk versus spekulativ jødisk kapitalisme hos Alexander L. Kielland :. Norsk litteraturvitenskapelig tidsskrift. vol. 15 (1).
- (2009) Der Ehrenmann und der Spekulant Vom Bild des Unternehmers in Thomas Manns Buddenbrooks mit einem Vergleich zu Alexander Kiellands Roman Fortuna. literaturkritik.de.
- (2004) Forfatterens tapte stemme: Don deLillos Mao II. Motskrift : tidsskrift for språk og litteratur.
Part of book/report
- (2016) Familieromanen. Noen litteraturhistoriske betraktninger. Ad Libitum. Festskrift til Gunnar Foss.
- (2015) Krigens nullpunkt. Dyd, utopi og drømmen om en politisk orden i Grimmelshausens Simplicissimus. Europæisk litteratur 1500‑1800. Bind II. Staten. Fra utopi til bureaukrati.
Report/dissertation
- (2013) Kapitalbevegelse, familieforfall og romankunst. En ny lesning av romanene Alexander L. Kielland og Thomas Manns "Buddenbrooks". 2013.
- (2003) Familie og individualitet: En komparativ analyse av Thomas Manns Buddenbrocks og Jonathan Franzens The Corrections. 2003.