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Margery Vibe Skagen

Professor

Department of Foreign Languages

E-mailMargery.Skagen@uib.no
Phone+47 55 58 25 30
Visitor Address
Sydnesplassen 7

HF-bygget

5007 Bergen
Postal Address
Postboks 7805

5020 Bergen

Literature and Science

Literature and Psychiatry in the 19th century: Balzac, Nerval, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Maupassant, Goncourt brothers.

Histories of Melancholia, Ennui, Hysteria, Mesmerism, Dream, Reverie

Charles Baudelaire

French Supernaturalism and Naturalism.

French Poetry 19th and 20th Centuries

Self-Writing: especially Montaigne, Rousseau, Ernaux.

Ageing in European Literature and Cultural History

Margery Vibe Skagen est maitre de conférences de littérature française au Département de langues et littératures étrangères de l’Université de Bergen (Norvège). D’une manière générale, ses recherches portent sur les relations entre la littérature et les savoirs, et particulièrement sur l’interface entre la littérature et la psychiatrie émergente au XIXème siècle. En tant que responsable du groupe de recherches Literature and Science de l’Université de Bergen, elle a codirigé plusieurs ouvrages collectifs consacrés à cette approche comparatiste de la littérature. Plus spécifiquement, son champ d’intérêt se situe au croisement de deux axes principaux : d’un côté, l’histoire intellectuelle et scientifique de l’Occident, et de l’autre côté, la représentation - dans les discours littéraire, médicale et psychologique - des états altérés de la conscience comme la mélancolie, l’ennui, l’hystérie, le rêve, la rêverie et l’ivresse. Depuis sa thèse de doctorat (Dr. art.) Mélancolie et goût de l’infini : Essai sur la mélancolie poétique dans les écrits de Charles Baudelaire, soutenue à l‘Université de Bergen en 2000, elle a publié de nombreux articles sur les écrits de Baudelaire. Plus récemment, elle s’est concentrée sur l’écriture de soi sous l’aspect du vieillissement, notamment chez Montaigne, Rousseau, Baudelaire, Annie Ernaux. Ses travaux actuels s’inscrivent dans le champ d’études interdisciplinaire sur le vieillissement : la construction du vieillir et la représentation du sujet vieillissant dans la littérature et l’histoire culturelle occidentale depuis le début de l’ère moderne.

Depuis 2016, Margery Vibe Skagen dirige un programme interdisciplinaire, soutenu par le Conseil de Recherches de Norvège, sur l’histoire culturelle du vieillissement : Historicizing the Ageing Self. Literature, Medicine, Psychology, Law. https://www.uib.no/en/project/ageing

Avec Daniel Chartier elle co-dirige un projet de collaboration et d’échanges à long terme, consacré à l’industrie du livre et soutenu par le DIKU (Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education).

Québec-Norvège: Industrie du livre et l'avenir de la littérature en contexte nordique

Publications

Edited/co-edited volumes

Skagen, Margery Vibe. Cultural Histories of Ageing: Myths, Plots and Metaphors of the Senescent Self. NY and Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2021. 390 p.

Barry, Elizabeth with Margery Vibe Skagen. Literature and Ageing. Essays and Studies. D.S.Brewer, 2020, 218 p. ISBN 978-1-84384-571-3

Holm, Helge Vidar; Skagen, Margery Vibe; Chartier, Daniel; Savoie, Chantal.Frontières. Actes du colloque québéco-norvégien. Montréal : Presses de L'Université du Québec, 2017, 238 p. ISBN 978-2-923385-22-8

Hagen, Margareth; Skagen, Margery Vibe. Literature and Chemistry Elective Affinities. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2013, 338 p. ISBN 978-87-7124-174-7

Hagen, Margareth; Koppen, Randi; Skagen, Margery Vibe. The Human and its Limits: Explorations in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts. Oslo: Spartacus, 2011, 327 p. ISBN 978-82-304-0067-8

Hagen, Margareth; Koppen, Randi; Skagen, Margery Vibe. The Art of discovery: Encounters in Literature and Science. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, Acta Jutlandica. Humanistisk Serie (2), 2010, 275 p. ISBN 978-87-7934-501-0

Book chapters

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “How Can Literary Studies Contribute to a Cultural History of Ageing?” In Cultural Histories of Ageing: Myths, Plots and Metaphors of the Senescent Self, edited by Margery Vibe Skagen. NY and Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2021, 28 p.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Reverie and Late Writing: From the Exemplary Montaigne to Rousseau and Baudelaire.” In Cultural Histories of Ageing: Myths, Plots and Metaphors of the Senescent Self, edited by Margery Vibe Skagen. NY and Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2021, 31 p.

Barry Elizabeth with Margery Vibe Skagen. “Introduction: The Difference Time Makes.” In Literature and Ageing. Essays and Studies. D.S.Brewer, 2020, 1-16. ISBN 978-1-84384-571-3

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “The Wild Woman, the Little Mistress, the Hottentot Venus, and the Pedestal Monster Living Curiosities and Their Counter-spaces in Two Texts by Charles Baudelaire.” In Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices edited by Jorunn Svensen Gjerden, Kari Jegerstedt, and Željka Švrljuga. Brill Academic Publishers, 2019, 149-172. ISBN 9789004395206. Available at: <https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004407916/BP000008.xml >.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Littérature et savoirs ou le savoir de la littérature.” Littérature et Médecine : Le Cas de Proust, sous la direction de Mireille Naturel. Paris : Editions Hermann, 2018, 9-23. ISBN 978 2 7056 9707

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Littérature et savoirs: le cas du vieillissement.” Littérature et Médecine : Le Cas de Proust, sous la direction de Mireille Naturel. Paris : Editions Hermann, 2018, 313-321. ISBN 978 2 7056 9707

Chartier, Daniel; Holm, Helge Vidar; Savoie, Chantal; Skagen, Margery Vibe.“Avant-propos : La ‘frontière’ comme lieu de collaboration.” Frontières. Actes du colloque québéco-norvégien. Montréal : Presses de L'Université du Québec, 2017, 1-10.

ISBN 978-2-923385-22-8

https://archipel.uqam.ca/11540/1/222054559.pdf

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “‘Le Poème du hachisch’ (Baudelaire) : la distorsion poétique d’un genre médical.” Frontières. Actes du colloque québéco-norvégien, sous la dir. de Daniel Chartier, Helge Vidar Holm, Chantal Savoie et Margery Vibe Skagen. Montréal : Presses de L'Université du Québec, 2017, 187-202. ISBN 978-2-923385-22-8 https://archipel.uqam.ca/10546/1/222058234.pdf

Hagen, Margareth; Skagen, Margery Vibe.“Literature and Chemistry: Arts and Crafts of Transformation.” In Literature and Chemistry Elective Affinities. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2013, 11-36. ISBN 978-87-7124-174-7

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “‘The Phosphorescence of Putrefaction and the Scent of Thunderstorms’: Approaching a Baudelairean Metaphor by Way of Literature and Chemistry.” In Literature and Chemistry Elective Affinities. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2013, 277-300. ISBN 978-87-7124-174-7

Hagen, Margareth; Koppen, Randi; Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Introduction.” In The Human and its Limits: Explorations in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts. Oslo: Spartacus, 2011, 9-22. ISBN 978-82-304-0067-8

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Symptoms of Hysteria in Baudelaire's Writing.” In The Human and its Limits: Explorations in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts. Oslo: Spartacus, 2011, 219-238. ISBN 978-82-304-0067-8

Hagen, Margareth; Koppen, Randi; Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Mapping, Bridging, Quilting: Tracing the Relations between Literature and Science.” In The Art of discovery: Encounters in Literature and Science. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2010, 9-28. ISBN 978-87-7934-501-0

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Baudelaire and the Poetics of Magnetism.” In The Art of Discovery: Encounters in Literature and Science. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2010, 95-113. ISBN 978-87-7934-501-0

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Ennui vs mélancolie.” In Les Fleurs du mal. Paris : Presses de l'Université de Paris – Sorbonne, 2003, 247-267. ISBN 2-84050-265-8

Original research publications in refereed journals:

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Mélancolie et magnétisme.” L'Année Baudelaire (20, 2016) : Baudelaire dans les pays scandinaves (Danemark, Suède, Norvège), sous a direction de Per Buvik. Paris : Honoré Champion, 2016, 207-229. ISBN 978-2-7453-4536-3

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Pour s'exercer à mourir. Ennui et mélancolie dans ‘Le Tir et le Cimetière’ de Baudelaire.” L'Année Baudelaire (2, 1996) : Baudelaire : Figures de la mort, figures de l’éternité, sous la direction de John E. Jackson et Claude Pichois. Paris : Klincksiek, 1996, 75-106. ISBN 2-252-03074-7

Doctoral dissertation

Skagen, Margery Vibe. Mélancolie et goût de l'infini : essai sur la mélancolie poétique dans les écrits de Charles Baudelaire. Universitetet i Bergen 2000, 300 p.

ISBN 8299579503

Talks at conferences, seminars and workshops

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Historiser le moi vieillissant : la méthode d’Annie Ernaux.” Convergences. Séminaire de recherches à l’OFNEC, Université de Caen Normandie, 2019-11-14 – 2019-11-15.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Le malheureux hiver de la vieillesse.” Nord, hiver, vieillissement. Atelier de recherche et de recherche-création. Université du Québec à Montréal, 2019-12-05.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Montaigne and the art of being alone.” International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress 2019. Gothenburg, 2019-05-23 - 2019-09-25.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “De la littérature pour apprendre à mourir.” Table ronde internationale de la création, de la diffusion et de la recherche sur le Nord et l'Arctique. Université du Québec à Montréal, 2018-04-05 - 2018-04-06.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Quelles nouvelles perspectives critiques pour la littérature? De la littérature pour apprendre à vieillir.” Table ronde. La Places des Arts. Montréal, 2018-04-04 - 2018-04-04.https://placedesarts.com/fr/evenement/table-ronde-internationale-de-la-cr%C3%A9ation-de-la-diffusion-et-de-la-recherche-sur-le-nord

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Utfordringsdrevet forskning – teoretisk motivasjon eller empirisk nysgjerrighet?”. SAMKUL-programseminar 2018. Oslo, 2018-11-28 - 2018-11-28.

Skagen, Margery Vibe.“Rêverie as Late Genre with some considerations on ‘Second Childishness’ and ‘Gerotranscendance’.” Dimensions of Ageing. Multidisciplinary Seminar. The Norwegian University Centre in St. Petersburg, 2017-09-27 - 2017-09-27.

Skagen, Margery Vibe.“Virtues of Old Age as ‘Second Childishness’.” Age, Agency, Ambiguity: Gender and Generation in Times of Change. Conference at the University of Oslo, 2017-08-27 - 2017-08-30.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “About the interdisciplinary research project ‘Historicizing the Ageing Self’: The art of being useful to other disciplines and loyal to one’s own”. Ageing Brains and Minds, Senses and Sentiments: Literature, Neurology, Psychiatry. Conference at the Norwegian University Centre in Paris, 2016-05-26 - 2016-05-27.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “How can literature complement other disciplines in the study of ageing?” Remaining Relevant. Conference at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, 2016-05-11 - 2016-05-13.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Contributing to a Poetics of Ageing, to a more Poetical Ageing, or both?” Why should literature be privileged in disciplinary approaches to ageing? Network seminar at the Norwegian Institute in Rome, 2015-10-15 - 2015-10-15.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Littérature et savoirs ou le savoir de la littérature : le cas du vieillissement.” Littérature et médecine : Le cas Marcel Proust. Research seminar at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, 2015-07-03 - 2015-07-05.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “The Wild Woman, The Little Mistress and The Pedestal Monster.” Annual Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science. University of Liverpool, 2015-04-16 – 2015-04-18.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “‘Le Poème du hachisch’ (Baudelaire) : le travestissement poétique d’une monographie médicale.” Frontières. Colloque à l’Université du Québec à Montréal, 2014-03-20 - 2014-03-21.

Skagen, Margery Vibe.“Sociological, literary and therapeutic narratives of depression: Modern melancholy between critical pessimism, bleak humour and “positive thinking.” SciLiterature: Narrativizing Science. Research seminar at the University of Bergen, 2012-12-07 - 2012-12-08.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Approaching the Poetical Science of the Psyche.” SciLiterature: Narrativizing Science. Research seminar at The University of Ferrara, 2012-09-21 - 2012-09-22.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “The Metaphorics of Phosphorescence with Special Reference to Baudelaire.” Annual Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science. Oxford University, 2012-04-12 - 2012-04-14.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Symptoms of Hysteria in Baudelaire's Prose Poems.” Annual Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science. University of Northumbria, Newcastle, 2010-04-08 - 2010-04-10.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Ennui vs mélancolie.” Les fleurs du mal de Baudelaire. Colloque de la Sorbonne. Paris, 2003-01-10 - 2003-01-11.

Talks on video

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Ageing Women in Baudelaire's Poetry.” Ageing & Gender. George Rousseau Annual Seminar at the University of Bergen, 2019-09-10 - 2019-09-12.

https://vimeo.com/359741377

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Historicizing the Ageing Self: The Method of Annie Ernaux.” Living a Good Life in Older Age: Medical, Psychological, Literary and Philosophical Perspectives. Symposium at the University of Warwick, 2018-07-05 - 2018-07-06.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS9eptb-_1o&list=PLwiglpnV-9XGRr-YYzxte1...

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Rêverie and Late Writing”. Defining Old Age: Literature, Psychology, Law. Research seminar at the University of Bergen, 2017-06-22 - 2017-06-23.

https://vimeo.com/227019186

Website

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Historicizing the Ageing Self.” Research project website. Available at: <https://www.uib.no/en/project/ageing#>.

Popular dissemination

Skagen, Margery Vibe. Interview with Post Doctor and Poet Soledad Marambio: “A Poem for my Father.” Siste kapittel. 2020. English — Last Chapter. [online] Available at: <https://www.sistekapittel.no/nyheter/a-poem-for-my-father>.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. Kjønnsavdelingen 17 – “Overgangsalder, kjerringliv og alderdommens likestillingsutfordringer.” Kilden kjønnsforskning.no [online] 2019-01-10.

Available at: <http://kjonnsforskning.no/nb/2019/01/kjonnsavdelingen-17>.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Mühleisen og Vibe Skagen om mor-datter-forhold i litteraturen.” Kilden kjønnsforskning.no [online] 2019-01-15. Available at: <http://kjonnsforskning.no/nb/2019/01/kjonnsavdelingen-17>.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Havet, døden og #metoo.” Klassekampen (2018-02-01): 14-15. Available at:

<https://arkiv.klassekampen.no/article/20180201/ARTICLE/180209991>.

Skagen, Margery Vibe. Tema. “Evig ung.” Pensjonisten 5 [Intervju i Fagblad] (2017-10-01).

Skagen, Margery Vibe.“Aldring i litteraturen. Hvordan kan sammenlignende litteraturstudier bidra til å forstå menneskelig aldring?” Foredrag Café Humaniora UiB (2016-11-24).

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Fortellinger om alderdom.” På Høyden [Avis] 2015-01-29.

Available at: <https://pahoyden.khrono.no/institutt-for-fremmedsprak-lillian-helle-marg....

Skagen, Margery Vibe. “Kunstige paradiser eller forsmaken av paradiset for kunstneren.” Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift 1-2 (2005): 25-29.

Academic article

Show author(s) (2024). "Writing life, writing time, writing the mother: The aging daughter-mother relationship in works of Annie Ernaux" . Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Show author(s) (2001). Hysteri og litteratur. Tribune : Skriftserie for Romansk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen. 135-143.

Show author(s) (1996). Pour s'exercer à mourir. Ennui et mélancolie dans Le Tir et le Cimetière de Baudelaire. L'Année Baudelaire 2. 75-106.

Lecture

Show author(s) (2019). “Le Malheureux hiver de la vieillesse.” .

Show author(s) (2018). le thème du vieillissement dans la littérature française.
Show author(s) (2018). Utfordringsdrevet forskning – teoretisk motivasjon eller empirisk nysgjerrighet?
Show author(s) (2018). De la littérature pour apprendre à mourir.

Show author(s) (2017). Border Crossing into the Kingdom of the Aged: Some Reflections on Late Style.
Show author(s) (2017). Aldring som global samfunnsutfordring.

Show author(s) (2016). Project launch speech.
Show author(s) (2016). Det aldrende subjekt i kulturhistorisk perspektiv: en kort prosjektpresentasjon.
Show author(s) (2016). Aldring i litteraturen. Hvordan kan sammenlignende litteraturstudier bidra til å forstå menneskelig aldring?

Show author(s) (2015). Presentation of interdisciplinary project on ageing.
Show author(s) (2015). Presentasjon av planlagt forskningsprosjekt: en litterær og kulturhistorisk tilnærming til aldring.

Popular scientific lecture

Show author(s) (2023). "Aldring i kulturhistorisk perspektiv: Litt om kloke koner, gamle hekser og vismenn i litteraturen".

Show author(s) (2021). Forskning i dialog.

Show author(s) (2016). "Littérature et savoirs".

Academic lecture

Show author(s) (2023). "The ageing mother-daughter relationship in Annie Ernaux’s writing".

Show author(s) (2021). Montaigne and the Art of Being Alone (Last Chapter version).

Show author(s) (2019). “Historiser le moi vieillissant : la méthode d’Annie Ernaux.” .
Show author(s) (2019). Montaigne and the art of being alone.
Show author(s) (2019). Ageing Women in Baudelaire's Poetry.

Show author(s) (2018). Quelles nouvelles perspectives critiques pour la littérature? De la littérature pour apprendre à vieillir.
Show author(s) (2018). Historicizing the Ageing Self: The Method of Annie Ernaux.

Show author(s) (2017). Virtues of Old Age as "Second Childishness".
Show author(s) (2017). Rêverie as Late Genre with some considerations on "Second Childishness" and "Gerotranscendance".
Show author(s) (2017). Rêverie and Late Writing.
Show author(s) (2017). Pour une science poétique de la psyché : sur quelques thèmes médico-psychologiques chez Baudelaire.

Show author(s) (2016). « Littérature et savoirs ou le savoir de la littérature ».
Show author(s) (2016). How can literature complement other disciplines in the study of ageing?
Show author(s) (2016). About the interdisciplinary research project "Historicizing the Ageing Self": The art of being useful to other disciplines and loyal to one’s own.

Show author(s) (2015). Littérature et savoirs ou le savoir de la littérature : le cas du vieillissement.
Show author(s) (2015). "The Wild Woman, The Little Mistress and The Pedestal Monster".
Show author(s) (2015). "Contributing to a Poetics of Ageing, to a more Poetical Ageing, or both?".

Show author(s) (2014). « Le Poème du hachisch » (Baudelaire) : le travestissement poétique d’une monographie médicale.

Show author(s) (2012). The Metaphorics of Phosphorescence with Special Reference to Baudelaire.
Show author(s) (2012). Sociological, literary and therapeutic narratives of depression:Modern melancholy between critical pessimism, bleak humour and “positive thinking”.
Show author(s) (2012). Approaching the Poetical Science of the Psyche.

Show author(s) (2010). Symptoms of Hysteria in Baudelaire's Prose Poems.

Show author(s) (2003). Ennui vs mélancolie.

Research groups

Research Group Literature and Science