FREDRIK CHR. BRØGGER Professor of American literature and Culture (American Studies) Area of current research: American Nature Writing ("Conceptions of Nature in American Literature and Culture 1830-present") Publications within the following fields:  American Literature and Culture of the 1920s; American Drama Cultural Theory; American Studies Theory American Popular Literature and Culture (including Advertising) American Nature Writing Extracurricular interests: Mountain hiking, skiing, (fly)fishing; natural history Creative writing (fiction, drama)

CV SUMMARY

My literary and cultural research and teaching and my extracurricular interests have recently become closely interrelated; they are all in some way or other linked to the subject of our natural environment. My doctoral thesis, however, dealt with the interconnections between American modernist literature and the culture of consumption of the 1920s and focused on four main literary texts: Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer, Eliot's The Waste Land, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. If I am a specialist (a dubious term) on any author, it would have to be Ernest Hemingway, on whom I wrote my MA (hovedfag) thesis, and on whom I have subsequently written five articles. I am also the author of a monograph entitled Culture, Language, Text: Culture Studies within the Study of English as a Foreign Language (Scandinavian University Press, 1992) and co-editor of American Cutlure: An Anthology of Civilization Texts (Routledge, 1996). In addition I have published articles in the fields listed above; my most recent essays have dealt with Faulkner's "The Bear," Hemingway's "Big, Two-Hearted River," Hamsun's novel Pan, and the American Romantic Age (ideas of nature in Emerson, Thoreau, and Melville).
 

CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS:

The experiential self and nature in Thoreau's Walden
Modern non-fictional nature writers (e.g. Leopold, Terry Tempest Williams, Lopez, Snyder, Dillard)
Modern nature writers of fiction (e.g. Hemingway, Faulkner, Bass)
Modern Native American nature writers (e.g. Momaday, Silko, Hogan)
 

CURRENT TEACHING: 

Courses recently taught:

E-103: Introductory course on American Literature and Civilization (grunnfag course, Fall Term 2002)

E-311: The modernist and contemporary American novel (hovedfag course, Spring Term 2002 - on the novel as genre, especially on narrative perspective, setting, imagery)

E-226: Views of nature in the American Romantic Age (mellomfag course, Fall 2002)

E-226: Mimesis, Myth, and History: Narrating the living world in America (a mellomfag/hovedfag course, Spring 2001, mainly on contemporary nature writers)

E-240: Introduction to American Nature Writing (mellomfag/hovedfag course, Fall 2001)
 

COMPLETE CURRICULUM VITA AND PUBLICATIONS LIST

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