Ellen Mortensen
professor
Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning
Stilling: professor
Telefon: 55 58 23 20
E-post: Ellen.Mortensen@skok.uib.no
Besøksadresse: Allegt. 34
Anglo-amerikansk og fransk (og skandinavisk) litteratur etter 1850
Litteratur og filosofi
Moderne poesi
Kjønnsteori
Luce Irigaray
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 1989, Comparative Literature
M.A./Cand. philol., University of Bergen, Norway, May 1982, English literature
B.A./Cand. mag., University of Bergen, Norway, May 1979, French, English and Comparative Literature
Diplôme Supérieur d'Etudes Françaises, Université de Bordeaux III - Bordeaux, France, June 1976, French language, literature & civilization
OTHER RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE:
Editorial Board, Nora: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. Routledge (2008-)
Editorial Board, Syn og Segn. Oslo: Samlaget (2002-2006)
Editorial Board, Lambda Nordica. Stockholm: Scandinavian University Press, (1998-)
Editorial Board, Norsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press (1997-1999).
Assistant Editor (part time), the Women's Studies Librarian's Office of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Supervisor: Susan Searing, Women's Studies Librarian), December 1985 - August 1987
Library Assistant (part time), the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Library (Supervisor: Erwin Welsch, Bibliographer), May 1983 - August 1984
Main compiler of Feminist Periodicals, published by the Women's Studies Librarians Office of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. December 1985 - August 1987.
A: BOOKS
1. Sex, Breath and Force: Sexual Difference in a Post-Feminist Era. Edited by Ellen Mortensen. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006.
2. Touching Thought: Ontology and Sexual Difference. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002. (Paperback, April 2003).
3. The Feminine and Nihilism: Luce Irigaray with Nietzsche and Heidegger. Oslo/Oxford: Scandinavian University Press/Oxford U Press (distr.), 1994.
4. Kjønnsteori. Eds. Ellen Mortensen, Cathrine Egelnd, Randi Gressgård, Cathrine Holst, Kari Jegerstedt, Sissel Rosland and Kristin Sampson. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk, 2008.
B: REFEREED ARTICLES
5. “Feminist Philosophy in Norway”. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Vol. 35, no. 1, Spring 2009, pp.
6. “Seksuell forskjell, ontologisk forskjell: Irigaray og Heidegger”. Agora, no. 4/08), pp. 101-113.
7. “Litterær morsbinding – subaltern genealogi? Om feministisk kanonkritikk”. I På tvers: Festskrift til Pål Bjørby. Trondheim: Tapir, 2008, pp.?. (Forthcoming)
8. “Feminine floker i Ibsens Hedda Gabler,” Edda no. 4, 2006, pp. 388-397.
9. “Ibsen et le scandaleux”. Études gérmaniques. Paris/Sorbonne, 2008.
10. “Ibsen and the Scandalous: Ghosts and Hedda Gabler”. Ibsen Studies, vol. 7, no.2, 2007, pp. 169-187.
11. "Kjønnsleppenes estetikk". Kvinneforskning, 4/2001, pp. 44-51.
12. "'All That Is Nameless and New': Exploring Queer Paths in Karin Boye's Poetry." Scandinavica, vol. 40, no. 1, May 2001, pp. 41-70.
13. "Finnes det en feminin estetikk?" Edda, no. 2, (2001), pp. 224-234.
14. “En ubestemmelig død: mimesis og temporalitet i Hjalmar Gullbergs ‘Död amazon.”Agora, no. 4/00-1/01, pp. 140-154.
15. ‘En bevegelig hær av metaforer...:’ Nietzsche, de Man og nyretorikkens utfordringer.” Rhetorica Scandinavica, no. 7/1998, pp. 34.39.
16. "Amasoner, nymfer og gjenferd: en lesning av Charles Baudelaires 'Femmes damnées.’ Lambda Nordica, Vol. 3, no. 4, 1997, pp. 16-40.
17. "Butches & Nomads: the Dynamic Imperative in Feminist Theory". In Nora: Nordic Journal of Women's Studies, no. 1, Vol. 4 (1996), pp. 53-62.
C: INVITED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
18. “Litterær morsbinding – subaltern genealogi. Om feministisk kanonkritikk.” I Tekster på tvers: Queer-inspirerte lesninger. Festskrift til Pål Bjørby. Ed. C. Hamm, J.M. Sjersted og L.R. Waage. Trondheim: Tapir akademisk forlag, 2008, pp. 79-94.
19. “Innledning”. Written with Cathrine Egeland, Randi Gressgård, Cathrine Holst, Kari Jegerstedt, Sissel Rosland og Kristin Sampson. I Kjønnsteori. Ed. By E. Mortensen et al. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk Forlag, 2008, pp. 11-15.
20. “Hva er kjønn? Ulike tilnærmingsmåter.” Written with Kari Jegerstedt. I Kjønnsteori. Ed. By E. Mortensen et al. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk Forlag, 2008, pp. 15-21.
21. “Hélène Cixous”. I Kjønnsteori. Ed. By E. Mortensen et al. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk Forlag, 2008, pp. 237-242.
22. “Toril Moi”. I Kjønnsteori. Ed. By E. Mortensen et al. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk Forlag, 2008, pp. 258-261.
23. “Seksualitetsteori og skeiv teori”. Written with Kari Jegerstedt. I Kjønnsteori. Ed. By E. Mortensen et al. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk Forlag, 2008, pp. 294-297.
24. “Judith Halberstam”. I Kjønnsteori. Ed. By E. Mortensen et al. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk Forlag, 2008, pp. 319-324.
25. Elizabeth Grosz”. I Kjønnsteori. Ed. By E. Mortensen et al. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk Forlag, 2008, pp. 349-355.
26. “Inledning” to Genustrubbel, (the Swedish translation Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble, trans. by Suzanne Almquist). Introduction translated from Norwegian to Swedish by Sten Andersson. Göteborg: Daidalos, 2006, pp. 7- 19.
27. “Kunnskapens kjønn og universitetenes kunnskapsproduksjon.” In Utstein Kloster seminar 2006: Universitetet – idé og institusjon. Utstein kloster, Haugaland akademi, 2006, pp. 81-88.
28. ”Kjødets poesi: Gertrude Steins ‘Lifting Belly’” i Maskepi og maskerade: Festskrift til Hans Erik Aarset på hans 60-årsdag. Eds. Britt Andersen, Knut ove Eliassen and Gunnar Foss. Trondheim: Tapir, 2005, pp. 97-104.
29. “Edvardas lunefulle begjær” i Hamsuns kvinner: 8 foredrag fra Hamsundagene på Hamarøy 2004. Ed. by Even Arntzen. Hamarøy: Hamsun-Selskapet, 2004, pp. 23-51.
30. "Kjønn i litteraturen: et spørsmål om å være, å bli eller å gjøre?" In Kultur og Kjønn. Eds. Siri Gerhard and Kari Melby. Oslo: Høyskoleforlaget/Norges Forskningsråd, Kulturstudier, nr. 38 (2004), pp. 91-104.
31. "En sadistisk hermafroditt? Kjønnsfigurasjon i Emily Dickinsons 'She dealt her pretty words like Blades'" in Fanden går i kloster: Elleve tekster om det andre. Eds. Randi Gressgård and Siri Meyer. Oslo: Spartacus, 2002, pp. 103-115.
32. “Moralens puls”. I Makt og umoral. Ed. Siri Meyer. (Oslo: Aschehoug, 2001), pp. 150-153.
33. “’The Master-Mistress of my Passion:’ The Rhetoric of Metamorphic Love in Shakespeare's Sonnets.” in Questions of Rhetoric: Literary Studies. Eds. Jostein Gripsrud and Peter Larsen. Rhetoric, Knowledge, Mediation, No. 4, 1999, pp. 28-70.
34. “Fra kjønnsidentitet til nomadiske subjekt.” In Normalitet og identitesmakt i Norge. Ed. Siri Meyer. (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1999), pp. 169-187.
35. "Cecile Løveids Maria Q: drømmetekst eller myto-poetisk tragedie?" In Livsritualer: om Cecilie Løveids dramatikk. Ed. Merete Morken Andersen (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1998), pp. 142-156.
36. "Writing in the Air: Irigaray with Heidegger." In Epistemology, Ethics, Feminism. Eds. Preuss et al. (Oslo: Academica/The University of Oslo, 1997), pp. 31-40.
37. "Eurydikes Taushet: Emily Dickinsons dødslyrikk og det orfiske.” In Modernismens kjønn. Eds. Irene Iversen & Anne Birgitte Rønning. (Oslo: Pax Forlag, 1997), pp. 71-94.
38. "Den særegne klang av knust sprog. Om Cecilie Løveid." Nordisk kvinnelitteraturhistorie, Bind. IV: Paa jorden. Red. Elisabeth Møller Jensen (København: Rosinante, 1997), pp. 366-372.
39. “Det nye i feministisk retorikk- gammelt nytt? Frigjøringens språkdrakt hos Judith Butler og Camille Paglia. In Det Nye. Ed. Siri Meyer. Kulturtekster, no. 9 (Bergen: Senter for europeiske kulturstudier, 1997), pp. 114-133.
40. "Skrift og drift på vift. Om Karin Moes Kjønnskrift." In Perifraser: Festskrift til Per Buvik. Eds. Atle Kittang and Lars Sætre (Bergen: The University of Bergen, 1996) pp. 177-195.
41. "Ecriture féminine: A Textual Exploration of Proximities between Hélène Cixous 'Le Rire de la Méduse', Marguerite Duras' Moderato Cantabile and Monique Wittig's Les Guérillères ". In Mosaikker. Eds. E. Arntzen et al. (Tromsø: Tromsø-studier i litteratur, no. 7, 1996), pp. 167-189.
42. "Woman's (Un)truth and le féminin: Reading Luce Irigaray With Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. In Engaging with Irigaray. Eds. N. Schor, C. Burke & M. Whitford (London/New York: Columbia U Press, 1994), pp. 211-228.
43. "Irigaray and Nietzsche: Echo and Narcissus Revisited." In The Fate of the New Nietzsche. Eds. Michael Ansell-Pearson and Howard Cahill (London: Avebury Press, 1993), pp. 229-251.
D: OTHER ARTICLES
44. “Hélène Cixous og erindringens paradoks”. Article in Bergens Tidende, May 9th, 2007.
45. “Innledning til Judith Butlers Genustrubbel”. Vagant, no. 1, 2007, pp.123-129.
46. “’Kvinnen lever i eksil i språket’. An interview with Ellen Mortensen under the heading “Nietzsche”. Prosopospeia, 2006, pp. 34-40.
47. “Drømmen i litteraturen”. Catalogue text for the exhibition “Kunsten å sove” by Anne J. Sæten, Bergen Museum, (November 2004-February 2005), p. 26.
48. "Livet som tekst: ei lesning av romanen Kris av Karin Boye". Trans. by Marit Neergaard. Syn og Segn, 1/2004, pp. 18-25.
49. “Lausunger, lesber og libertinere: betenkning over den (u)offisielle familien. Vinduet, 1/1998, pp.
50. "Å kjede seg til døde: kvinnen og det tragiske i Hedda Gabler.” Vagant , no. 4, December 1996, pp. 71-94.
51. "Luce Irigaray og spørsmålet om seksuell differens", Vinduet, Vol. 48, no. 2 (1994), pp. 21-28.
52. "Nyere fransk feministisk teori, eller, kjønnsdifferens i den vitenskapelige diskursen.” Nytt om kvinneforskning, no. 5, 1991, pp. 76-82.
53. "Narcissus and the Construction of 'I' in Autobiography.” In Lectures Autobiographiques. Ed. Elaine Marks (Madison: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984), pp. 1-13.
54. Lesbianism: A Closeted Existence in within the Contemporary American Lesbian-feminist Novel? Master's Thesis in English (Bergen: The University of Bergen, 1982). 112p.
E: DEBATE ARTICLES
55. “Sjikane eller kritikk? Julia Kristeva og Holbergprisen.” Debate article written with Atle Kittang and Lars Sætre. Bergens Tidende, January 6th, 2005, p. 32.
56. “Den eksperimentelle Moe”. Article in the series “Bak namnet” in Dag og Tid, Saturday, December 18th, 2004, p. 30.
57. "Flatbankere, puselesber og femmer". Samtiden, no /2004, pp.
58. "Kultur og ukultur i Norges forskningsråd". Samtiden, no. 2/2002. pp.
59. "Å leve som seksuell flyktning i sitt eget land". Samtiden, no.1/2001, pp. 74-81.
F: BIBLIOGRAPHIC PUBLICATIONS
60. Bibliography: Post-War Norwegian Literature. Compiled by Ellen Mortensen. Eds. Erwin K. Welsch and Ellen Mortensen. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Memorial Library, 1984.
POSITIONS/TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Director, Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies (SKOK), University of Bergen, Norway, 2005-
KVIK101: Introduction to Gender research
KVIK202: Feminist Literary Theory
KVIK201: Gender Theory
Ph.D.-Course: Subject, Embodiment, Agency ( Univ. of Bergen, Spring 2006)
Ph.D. course: Luce Irigaray and the Future of Sexual Difference (MSH, Paris, Fall 2006)
MA course - Litteratur og seksualitet (Univ. of Bergen, Fall 2007)
Professor, Comparative Literature, Dept. of Linguistics and Comparative Literature, University of Bergen, Norway, (1999 -)
- Grunnfag:
The Theory of Drama
Short fiction/Essay: Woolf, Kafka/Montaigne
Modern literary theory: Michel Foucault, Hélène Cixous, Roland Barthes,
Literature and Poetics from 1750 to the Present: Brontë, Kafka, Woolf
Literature and Poetics from Antiquity to 1750: - Greek Tragedy: Aeschylos, Sophocles, Euripides / - Greek Comedy: Aristophanes
Women's Studies and Gender Studies: Irigaray, Foucault, Butler
Women's and Gender Studies (KVIK201 & KVIK202): Teresa de Lauretis, Judith Butler, Elizabeth Grosz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Leo Bersani
- Mellomfag/Hovedfag:
"Virginia Woolf Seminar" (Spring 2001)
"Literature and Sexuality" (Spring 2004)
“Tragic Heroines” (Fall 2004)
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Dept. of Linguistics and Comparative Literature, University of Bergen, Norway. (1994-1999)
Courses taught:
- Grunnfag:
Greek Tragedy: Aeschylos, Sophocles, Euripides
Greek Comedy: Aristophanes
The Epic: Cervantes and Sterne
The Modernist Novel: Marguerite Duras
Feminist Literary Criticism:
- Mellomfag:
Theory: Subject - Society – History
Seminar: The Sonnet
- Hovedfag:
The Tragic
The Modern Lyric
Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Literature, University of Tromsø, Norway. (1991-1994)
Courses taught:
- Grunnfag:
Lyric poetry from the Renaissance to 1850
Lyric poetry from 1850 to the present
Modern Drama from Ibsen to the Present
Literary Theory: Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan & Kristeva
- Mellomfag/Hovedfag:
Eros in Western Literature by Women
The Tragic: Theoretical and Literary Texts
20. Century Narrative: Short fiction
Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Courses taught:
- Fall 1988
Comparative Literature 209: "Introduction to Literary Forms: The Tragic"
Comparative Literature 288: Masterpieces of Literature for Honors II"
-Spring 1989
Comparative Literature 207: "Introduction to Literature I"
Lecturer, Women's Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Course taught:
Women's Studies 440: "Feminism & Social Theory"
Spring 1987
Teaching Assistant, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Courses taught:
Comparative Literature 207: "Masterpieces of Literature I"
Spring 1985, Fall 1985, Spring 1986, Fall 1986
Teaching Assistant, Department of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Courses taught:
French 203 - Fall 1987
French 101 - Spring 1984, Fall 1987
Teaching Assistant, Women's Studies Program University of Wisconsin-Madison
Courses taught:
Women's Studies 101: "The Meanings of Woman in Western Culture" - Fall 1983
Lecturer, Department of English, Bodö Lærehögskole, Bodö, Norway
Course taught:
Engelsk Grunnfag: "Moderne amerikansk litteratur og kultur" - Fall 1982
Thought as Action (NFR-finansiert) 2008-2012
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