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Bakgrunn

Associate Professor of History at Sogn og Fjordane University College since 2012

Dr. phil. in History (University of Vienna, 2000), Mag. phil. in German Language and Literature (Deutsche Philologie) / Communication Studies (Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaften) (University of Vienna, 1994)

Migration Studies, History and Comparative Literature at International Women’s University, Hannover (2000), University of Copenhagen (1994-95), University of Essex (1990)

2011 Visiting Scholar at Departments of History and Scandinavian Studies, University of Amsterdam

2010-2011 Researcher, Dept. of Culture and Literature, University of Tromsø

2009 Lecturer, Institute Reiseliv, hotell- og mediefag, Finnmark University College

2009 Assoc. Professor, Dept. of History, University of Tromsø

2008-2009 Project Manager/Adviser, project “Nordområdemuseet” (High Arctic Museum), Tromsø Municipality/University of Tromsø/Troms County

2008 Assoc. Professor, Dept. of History, University of Tromsø

2003-2007 Curator, Wien Museum

2003 Visiting scholar at CEMORE (Centre for Mobility Research), Lancaster University

2001-2002 Junior Fellow, IFK_International Research Centre for Cultural Studies, Vienna

1996-1997 Visiting Research Fellow, Dept. of History, University of Oslo

1995-1996 Visiting Research Fellow, Dept. of History, Trinity College Dublin

member Editorial Board Historisk tidsskrift, Norway

head of Research and Development (fou) at Department of Social Sciences (ASF)

member of Research and Development (fou) committee (Sogn og Fjordane University College)

Teaching at HiSF

(høst 2015) SA504 Nyare historie 1800-1970

(vår 2015) SA504 Nyare historie 1800-1970

(vår 2015) SA522 Lokalhistorie: Menneske, lokalsamfunn og globalisering

(vår 2014) SA504 Nyare historie 1800-1970

(vår 2014) SA522 Lokalhistorie: Menneske, lokalsamfunn og globalisering

(vår 2013) SA539 Nyare historie 1870-1970

(vår 2012) SA539 Nyare historie 1870-1970

(vår 2013) SA522 Ressursar/Menneske/Teknologi

(høst 2012) ME520 Samfunnsvitskapleg metode

(høst 2012) SA533 Eldre historie før 1870

Research interests

My research focuses on 19th and 20th century European cultural history, geographically in particular on Norway, the Arctic and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Thematically I concentrate on cultural heritage and identity, public history (museums and archives), travelling/tourism and expeditions, polar history and history of science. A common denominator has been the production and negotiation of identities in local, national and transnational contexts, with a focus on representation and discourse. Methodologically and theoretically I have worked with discourse analysis, intermedia and multimedia approaches, theories of nationalism, identity and representation, museology, archival science, postcolonial theory and theories of space/place.

• travelling and tourism in Europe since 1800
• history of science, polar history, polar expeditions, cultural perceptions of the northern lights
• cultural heritage, museum history, archives, exhibition analysis
• nationalism, national identity & language

ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS

2013-2016 “Arctic Modernities” (University of Tromsø), funded by Norges Forskningsråd

2014-2016 “Making Sense of the Aurora” (University of Tromsø), funded by Tromsø Forskningsstiftelse

Publications (selected)

Books (monograph and edited)

with Johan Schimanski: Passagiere des Eises. Polarhelden und arktische Diskurse 1874. Wien/Köln: Böhlau Verlag 2015. 719 pp.

with Hilde Lange (eds): Formidling for framtida – tanker om arkiv. Oslo: ABM-media 2013. 260 pp.

with Wolfgang Kos & Wolfgang Freitag (eds): Im Wirtshaus. Eine Geschichte der Wiener Geselligkeit. Wien: Wien Museum/Czernin Verlag 2007. 320 pp.

with Karin Granqvist (eds): Representing Gender, Nation and Ethnicity in Word and Image. Tromsø: Centre for Women’s Studies and Women in Research, Kvinnforsk 4/2001. 184 pp.

with Richard Holt & Hilde Lange (eds): Internationalisation in the History of Northern Europe. Nordsaga ’99. Tromsø 2000. 170 pp.

Articles

"The Useless Arctic: Exploiting Nature in the Arctic in the 1870s" [with Johan Schimanski], Nordlit 35 (2015), 13-27.
"Formidling for framtida" [with Hilde Lange]. In: Hilde Lange and Ulrike Spring (eds), Formidling for framtida – tanker om arkiv. Oslo: ABM-Media AS 2013, 7-24.
"Between Spectacle and Science: The Aurora in Central Europe, 1870s-1880s". In: Acta Borealia 29, 2 (2012), 197-215.
"Oppdagelsesreise blir til litteratur: Skrivestrategier i mottakelsen av den østerriksk-ungarske nordpolsekspedisjonen (1872–1874)" [with Johan Schimanski]. In: Johan Schimanski, Cathrine Theodorsen and Henning H. Wærp (eds), Reiser og ekspedisjoner i den litterære Arktis. Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag 2011, 57-90.
"Dilettanter og vitenskapsmenn: Tromsø Museums første tiår". In: Marie-Theres Federhofer and Hanna Hodacs (eds), Mellom pasjon og profesjonalisme. Dilettantkulturer i skandinavisk kunst og vitenskap 1660-1970. Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag 2011, 287-308.
"Polene som mediebegivenheter". In: S. F. Berg and H. Østgaard Lund (eds), Norske polarheltbilder 1888-1928. Oslo: Nasjonalbiblioteket/Forlaget Press 2011, 250-251.
"Exhibiting Mozart - Rethinking Biography". In: Nordisk Museologi 2 (2010), 58-74.
"A Black Rectangle Labelled ‘Polar Night’: Imagining the Arctic after the Austro-Hungarian Expedition of 1872-1874" [with Johan Schimanski]. In: Anka Ryall, Johan Schimanski and Henning H. Wærp (eds), Arctic Discourses. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010, 19-42.
"Polarwissenschaft und Kolonialismus in Österreich-Ungarn: Zur Rezeption der österreichisch-ungarischen Polarexpedition (1872-1874)" [with Johan Schimanski]. In: Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit 9, 2 (2009), 53-71.
"Die Alte Stadt und das Museum: Die Re/Konstruktion von Alt-Kristiania um 1900". In: Monika Sommer and Heidemarie Uhl (eds), Mythos Alt-Wien. Spannungsfelder urbaner Identitäten (=Gedächtnis-Erinnerung-Identität 9). Innsbruck, Wien, Bozen: Studienverlag 2009, 151-165.
"Explorers’ Bodies in Arctic Mediascapes: Celebrating the Return of the Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition in 1874" [with Johan Schimanski]. In: Acta Borealia 16, 1 (2009), 50-76.
"Mottakelse og mottakelse: Tilbakekomstene til den østerriksk-ungarske nordpolsekspedisjonen, 1872-1874" [with Johan Schimanski]. In: Nordlit 22 (2007), 143-166.
"Norwegians". In: Manfred Beller and Joep Leerssen (eds), Imagology: The Cultural Construction and Literary Representation of National Characters: A Critical Survey. Amsterdam: Rodopi 2007, 214-216.
"Gedenken und Erdenken: Die Mozartwohnung in Wien und ihre Inszenierung in der NS-Zeit". In: Erik Fischer (ed.), Musik-Sammlungen – Speicher interkultureller Prozesse. Teilband A. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2007, 243-251.
"The Linear City: Touring Vienna in the 19th Century". In: Mimi Sheller and John Urry (eds), Mobile Technologies of the City. London/New York: Routledge 2006, 21-43.
"Vom Coupé ins Stadtgewühl. Erfahrungen des Ankommens. In: Wolfgang Kos and Günter Dinhobl (eds), Großer Bahnhof. Wien und die weite Welt". Wien: Wien Museum, Czernin Verlag 2006, 120-123.
"Weit sind sie trotzdem gekommen. Reisen vor der Bahn". In: Wolfgang Kos and Günter Dinhobl (eds), Großer Bahnhof. Wien und die weite Welt. Wien: Wien Museum, Czernin Verlag 2006, 68-71.
"Den severdige byen: Vandringer gjennom Wien og det kulturelle rom på 1800-tallet". In: Peter Aronsson, Bjarne Hodne, Birgitta Skarin Frykman, John Ødemark (eds), Kulturarvens gränser. Komparativa perspektiv. Göteborg: Arkipelag 2005, 145-163.
"Der Himmel über Wien. Franz Schubert, sein Körper und Alt-Wien". In: Wolfgang Kos and Christian Rapp (eds), Alt-Wien. Die Stadt, die niemals war. Wien: Wien Museum/Czernin Verlag 2004, 151-158.
"Die Rationalisierung des Außersinnlichen. Gespräch mit Peter Mulacz, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Parapsychologie und Grenzbereiche der Wissenschaften" [with Manfred Omahna]. In: ÖZG-Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 14, 4 (2003), 150-159.
"Touristische Räume in Wien und Oslo". In: Tourismus Journal 6, 2 (2002), 223-238.
"Imagining the Irish and Norwegian Peasant around 1900: Between Re-Presentation and Representation". In: Historisk Tidsskrift 80, 1 (2001), 75-99.
"Austro-Hungarian and Other Mountains in Arctic Discourse". [with Johan Schimanski]. In: TRANS. Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 15 (2003) www.inst.at/trans/15Nr/05_10/schimanski15.htm
"Identitetens ambivalens: Bondeungdomslaget i Oslo som eksempel". In: Nordlit 10 (2001), 95-108.
"A Natural Choice: Constructing Norway and its Tourists on the Internet". In: Karin Granqvist and Ulrike Spring (eds), Representing Gender, Nation and Ethnicity in Word and Image (=Kvinnforsk 4). Tromsø: Centre for Women's Studies and Women in Research 2001, 91-104.
"Introduction: The Question of Representation". [with Karin Granqvist]. In: Karin Granqvist and Ulrike Spring (eds), Representing Gender, Nation and Ethnicity in Word and Image (=Kvinnforsk 4). Tromsø: Centre for Women's Studies and Women in Research 2001, 5-22.
"Verlagsarbeit im niederländischen Exil. Am Beispiel des Briefwechsels Allert de Lange-Józef Wittlin". In: Decloedt, Leopold and Herbert van Uffelen (eds), Der niederländische Sprachraum und Mitteleuropa. (Buchreihe des Institutes für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa). Wien: Böhlau Verlag 1995, 146-153.