Research interests

Comparative literature

• Catastrophes in literature
• Representations of childhood
• Graphic literature
• Literary geography
• 22. of july in literature
• Children's literature
• Family novels
• 19th century literature

Didactictical interests

• Literary didactics

• Critical reading

• 22. of july in education

• Children's texts in cultural perspectives

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

Graphic literature (GraL)
https://www.ntnu.no/isl/gral

Research group for literary didactics

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