Charles Ivan Armstrong
professor
Institutt for fremmedspråk
Stilling: professor
Telefon: 55 58 23 61
E-post: Charles.Armstrong@if.uib.no
Besøksadresse: HF-bygget, Sydnesplassen 7
Romnummer: 230, Hf-bygget
- Poetry from Romanticism to the present
- Irish Studies, with special emphasis on W. B. Yeats and Northern Irish poetry
- Literary form, with special emphasis on structure, tropology, and genre
- Memory, allusion and literary tradition
- Life-writing, biography and autobiography
- Ekphrasis
M. A. in Comparative Literature, University of Tromsø, 1995.
Dr. art. (PhD) in Comparative Literature, University of Bergen, 2001.
Associate professor in the English dept. of the University of Bergen, 2003.
Professor of British literature at the University of Bergen from September 2006
Currently President of Nordic Irish Studies Network
Monographs Figures of Memory: Poetry, Space, and the Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009):http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=324328 Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003): http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=266684 Edited Collections Crisis and Contemporary Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan in 2010, co-edited with Anne Karhio and Seán Crosson): http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=399783 Postcolonial Dislocations: Travel, History, and the Ironies of Narrative (co-edited with Øyunn Hestetun, Novus Forlag, 2006) Articles Essays and reviews published in a number of essay collections, in addition to journals such as Literature and Religion, Coleridge Bulletin, Scandinavian Studies, Nordic Irish Studies, Nordic Journal of English Studies, American, British and Canadian Studies, Norsk litteraturvitenskapelig tidsskrift, Aiolos, Vagant, Estragon, and Prosopopeia. Book Reviews Book reviews published mainly in Klassekampen and Morgenbladet - but also Modern Philology, Nordic Irish Studies, English Studies, Norsk litteraturvitenskapelig tidsskrift, Vagant and Prosopopeia. Translation Paul Farley, 11 Dikt om Liverpool (Flamme Forlag, 2010):
Apart from general survey courses, the following courses at 200 (intermediate) and 300 (MA) level:
- The Theory and History of the Sonnet (co-organised and co-taught with Ellen Mortensen)
- Virginia Woolf (co-organised with Ellen Mortensen)
- Modern literary theory
- Recollecting Romanticism: Between Reflection and Revolution
- Living Poetry: Questioning Contemporary Verse
- Making it New: Literary Modernism in Britain (Co-organised and co-taught with Randi Koppen and Stuart Sillars)
- "Terrible Beauty": The Poetry, Plays and Prose of William Butler Yeats
- Troubled Words: Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry
- Late Victorian Literature
Individual projects Re-Framing Yeats: Genre and History in the Poetry. Plays and Prose Irish Ekphrasis: The Image and Irish Poetry from Yeats to the Present Participant in these collective projects Cross-cultural encounters (with the Nordic Irish Studies Network) Literature and Science Bergen Shakespeare Network