Humanities - Staff

Biographical data
1963 born in Stockholm
1968-1981 attended schools in England, Botswana, Zambia and Norway
1990 Mag. art. in literary studies, Oslo, “Falskneri som pre-romantisk trope: Iolo Morganwg 1747-1826” (Forgery as a Pre-romantic Trope: Iolo Morganwg 1747-1826)
1997 Dr. art., Oslo, “A Poetics of the Border: Nation and Genre in Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd and other texts by Islwyn Ffowc Elis”
1998 employed as Associate Professor in comparative literature at the University of Tromsø
2006 Visiting Professor of Border Studies at the Centre for Border Studies at the University of Glamorgan

Teaching
autumn 2007:
• sabbatical - no teaching
spring 2008:
• Fantastic literature and science fiction (ALI-2111)
• When literature turns to the north (ALI-3102)

Duties/posts
• contact person for general literature, Autumn 2006 and Spring 2007
• project coordinator Arctic discourses, Autumn 2006 and Spring 2007
• faculty representative in the board of Kvinnforsk - Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies
• associate fellow of the Centre for Border Studies, Glamorgan University
• member of the Association for Welsh Writing in English (AWWE)
• the University of Tromsø representative in the board of the Ordkalotten Tromsø International Literature Festival up to January 2007
• stand-in member of the Programme committee for humanities bachelor and masters programmes and the Programme committee for the PhD-programme in the humanities
• leader of evaluation committee, employment of doctoral student (Arktiske diskurser), October 2006-January 2007
• evaluation committee, doctoral dissertation by Steen Christiansen, Aalborg University (public viva December 2006)
• administrative leader of evaluation committee, employment of postdoc researcher in border aesthetics, May-June 2007
• leader of evaluation committee, Åse Hiorth Lervik prize 2007
• co-arranger, conference Arctic Discourses 2008, February 2008
• co-arranger, Border Poetics network meeting, Vienna, January 2007
• coordinator, Border Poetics EU 7th Frame Programme application, November 2006-May 2007
• working group, changes in the institute masters programme, December 2006- February 2007
• working group, position description Kvinnforsk research coordinator, February-March 2006
• interviewed by Austrian state broadcasting (radio ORF1), broadcasts December 2006 and January 2007
• introduction to the film Fight Club, Kvinnforsk “Gender and Film” seminar, February 2007
• paper, transfaculty Cultural studies-group, March 2007
• guest lecture (co-written with Ulrike Spring), Department of German and Dutch, Göteborg University, March 2007
• workshop paper with Ulrike Spring, Arktiske diskurser workshop, Longyearbyen, September 2007
• popular lecture with Ulrike Spring, Kvinnforskmaraton, Tromsø, September 2007.
• popular lecture with Ulrike Spring, Forskningsdagene, Tromsø, September 2007
• lecture, conference "Schauplätze, Handlungsräume, Raumphantasien – Perspektiven einer Geographie der Literatur", Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, October 2007
• guest lecture with Ulrike Spring, "Geschichte am Mittwoch", Vienna University, November 2007
• lecture, conference “On Cultural Translation”, U-Turn Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, The Royal Danish Academy of Art, November 2007
• seminar, University of Düsseldorf, December 2007
• popular lecture, Lørdagsuniversitetet science series, December 2008 (video by U-vett)
• lecture, Creative Writing, University of Tromsø, January 2008
• paper with Ulrike Spring, conference Arctic Discourses 2008, February 2008
• supervisor for 2 active masters students and for 2 doctoral students

Research
• borders and literature
• postcolonialism
• national identity and literature
• Welsh literature
• fantastic literature, science fiction
• Arctic discourses
• poetry

Research Projects
• "Border Poetics". Book on borders and literature.
• Border Poetics. Leader for project involving international researcher network.
• Arctic discourses. In leading group for project involving researchers in Tromsø, 2006-2009. Funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
• "European attitudes to the Arctic: The Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition (1872-74) and its significance up to the present". Cooperation with Curator Ulrike Spring (Wien Museum).

Bibliography
Edited book
with Stephen F. Wolfe, Eds. Border Poetics De-limited. Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2007. contents

(articles/reviews from 1999 onwards - for a list of earlier work, see here)
• ”Crying like Throwing Up: Abjection and Resistance in Caradog Prichard's Un Nos Ola Leuad”. In Postcolonialism and Cultural Resistance. Eds. Jopi Nyman & John A. Stotesbury. Joensuu 1999. 205-214. PDF
• ”Singing ‘Che Gelida Manina’ in Welsh: Internal and External Cultural Translation in the Future Wales of Islwyn Ffowc Elis”. Interlitteraria 5 (2000): 365-374.
• [The Halving Horizon: Postcolonialism according to Ingeborg Bachmann and Derek Walcott] ”Den halverende horisonten: Postkolonialisme ufra Ingeborg Bachmann og Derek Walcott”. Vagant 3/4 (2000): 49-59. PDF
• [The Literary Border: Knut Hamsun's 'The Queen of Saba'] ”Den litterære grensen: Knut Hamsuns ‘Dronningen af Saba’”. In Att forska om gränser (Researching Borders). Ed. José L. Ramírez. Stockholm 2001. 141-170. PDF
• [Jean Genet and the European Border] ”Jean Genet og den europeiske grensen”. In Litteratur og erfaring (Literature and Experience). Eds. Ragnhild Reinton & Irene Iversen. Oslo 2001. 149-166. PDF
• ”The Deperiodicized Patient: Ondaatje and the Contemporary”. In Identities and Masks: Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. Eds. Jakob Lothe, Anne Holden Rønning & Robert Young. Kristiansand 2001. 125-141. PDF
• [The Borders of Identity: On National Identity in Literature] ”Identitetens grenser: Om nasjonal identitet i litteraturen”. Nordlit 10 (2001): 57-78. HTML
• [A Turn on the River Dovey] “En vending på elfa Dyfi”. I Hilsen: En bok til Arne Melberg i anledning 60-årsdagen (Greetings: A Book for Arne Melberg on his 60th Birthday). Eds. Gruppe Oslo. Oslo: Gyldendal, 2002. 273-297. PDF
• ”Genre Borders in a Border Novel – Nadine Gordimer’s My Son’s Story”. In Genrer och genreproblem: teoretiska och historiska perspektiv / Genres and Their Problems: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives. Eds. Beata Agrell & Ingela Nilsson. Göteborg: Daidalos, 2003. 505-513. PDF
• with Ulrike Spring: "Austro-Hungarian and other Mountains in Polar Discourse". Trans 15.10 (2003). HTML
• [Postcolonial Travel as Return] "Postkoloniale Reise als Umkehrung" (review of Kati Stammwitz, ‘Travel Writing the Empire doesn’t imply’: Studien zum postkolonialen Reisebericht[Studies on Postcolonial Travel-Writing]). IASLonline 07.05.2004 HTML
• "Drums of the Babongo and the Ironies of Celtic Postcolonialism". In Postcolonial Dislocations: Travel, History, and the Ironies of Narrative. Eds. Charles I. Armstrong & Øyunn Hestetun. Oslo: Novus, 2006. 201-14.
• "Crossing and Reading: Notes towards a Theory and a Method". Nordlit 19 (2006): 41-63. PDF
• [Hamsun's Colonial Nonsense] "Hamsuns koloniale nonsens". In Tid og rom i Hamsuns prosa (II). Eds. Even Arntzen & Henning H. Wærp. Hamarøy: Hamsun-Selskapet, 2006. 81-116. PDF
• "The Postcolonial Border: Bessie Head’s 'The Wind and a Boy'". In Readings of the Particular: The Postcolonial in the Postnational. Eds. Anne Holden Rønning & Lene Johannessen. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 71-91. PDF
• with Stephen Wolfe. "Entry Points: An Introduction". Border Poetics De-limited. Eds. Johan Schimanski & Stephen F. Wolfe. Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2007. 9-26.
• with Stephen Wolfe. "Imperial Tides: A Border Poetic Reading of Heart of Darkness". Border Poetics De-limited. Eds. Johan Schimanski & Stephen F. Wolfe. Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2007. 217-34.
• with Ulrike Spring. ["Reception/Reception: The Returns of the Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition, 1872-1874] "Mottakelse/Mottakelse: Tilbakekomstene til den østerrikske-ungarske nordpolekspedisjonen, 1872-1874". Nordlit 22 (2007): 143-66. PDF
• with Ulrike Spring. "The Arctic as Part of Central European Culture". Polar Research in Tromsø 2007: 13-14. PDF