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Academic article
- (2017). Poetics of Peril. CounterText. 377-391.
- (2005). The Lonely Figure: Memory of Exile in Ana Menéndez' In Cuba I was a German Shepherd. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 54-68.
- (2004). "The insincere embrace" - Canons and the market. American Studies in Scandinavia. 77-92.
- (1998). Rethinking Our Cultures of Scholarship. American Studies in the Nordic Countries. Uppsala North American studies reports.
Lecture
- (2021). "American Studies in Norway".
- (2019). “The Future of Remembering in a small town in the American South”.
Popular scientific lecture
- (2011). Introduction: Lone Star.
- (2008). Amerika som Idé.
- (2005). "Suburbia in Contemporary American Literature and Culture".
- (1998). The Meaning of Place in Helena Maria Viramontes: Under det Feet of Jesus.
Academic lecture
- (2021). "The Aesthetic Imaginaries of Place, the Place of Aesthetic Imaginaries".
- (2019). Figures for the Future: The “Abbeville Installation” .
- (2018). Truth and Faith: Performances of Nostalgia.
- (2018). "Cosmopolitanism and the Region".
- (2017). Aesthetic Imaginaries and Regional Singularity.
- (2017). "Imagining Imaginaries".
- (2016). Performing the Past in Chinese Camp, Ca.
- (2016). Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic as Site of Cultural Memory.
- (2016). Materiality of the Invisible in David Wilson’s California Letters.
- (2016). Figured Resonances in Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic.
- (2016). Erasure and Retrieval in Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic.
- (2013). "Shangri-La Recall: Remembering Chavez Ravine".
- (2012). "Imaginaries".
- (2012). "Americanity on the Border: River's Sleep Dealer".
- (2011). The Palimpsest.
- (2011). The Limits of Transculturation in John Sayles’ Lone Star.
- (2011). Perpetual Progress: The American-ness of Drude Krog Janson’s A Saloonkeeper’s Daughter.
- (2011). "'Shangri-La Recall': Remembering Chávez Ravine".
- (2010). “The Poetics of History in González’ ‘I am Joaquín’".
- (2010). “The Other Shores of Whitman’s Pacific”.
- (2009). “Notes on Folklore as Cultural Memory".
- (2009). "Sandra Cisneros and the Borderland.”.
- (2008). Transnationalism and Immigration Shock in American Society and Literature.
- (2008). The Postcolonial Palimpsest: Hybridity and Writing.
- (2007). Tropological Ossifications: The Spatialization of an Idea.
- (2007). Salzburg American Studies seminar participation.
- (2006). "Thinking about Exile: David Malouf's Imaginary Life".
- (2006). "American Studies and Deregulation of the Cultural Act".
- (2005). De-symbolization and Meaning.
- (2004). The Destruction of Memory in Paredes' George Washington Gómez.
- (2004). Huntington�s Nightmare: The Last Discovery of America.
- (2004). Border Figurations.
- (2004). Autonomy at the End of Time: the Arts and the Market.
- (2003). "On Methodology in Literary Studies of Migration and Exile.".
- (2002). The American Canon.
- (2002). Creating a New Home: Work Migration between Southern Norway and the US.
- (2001). The Space of Chicano Literature.
- (2001). The Appropriated Protagonist in Américo Paredes' George Washington Gómez.
- (1999). Our Cultures of Scholarship.
- (1998). The Meaning of Place in Helena María Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
- (2022). Microdystopias : Aesthetics and ideologies in a broken moment. Lexington Books.
- (2021). Aesthetic apprehensions : Silences and absences in false familiarities. Lexington Books.
- (2018). Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
- (2009). Performing Change: Identity, Ownership and Tradition in Ugandan Oral Culture. Novus Forlag.
- (2008). Performing Community. Novus Forlag.
- (2007). Readings of the Particular: The Postcolonial in the Postnational. Brill|Rodopi.
- (2007). Considering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream. LIT Verlag.
- (2005). To Become the Self One Is: A Critical Companion to Drude Krog Janson's A Saloonkeeper's Daughter. Nova Science Publishers.
Academic monograph
- (2020). Site-Seeing Aesthetics: California Sojourns in Five Installations.
- (2011). Horizons of enchantment : essays in the American imaginary.
- (2011). Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature [b. 2].
- (2008). Threshold Time: Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature. 173.
Popular scientific article
- (2008). Amerikas Historier: på Langs. REPLIKK – Tidsskrift for samfunnsvitskap og humaniora. 16-23.
- (2002). Grenseland i meksikansk-amerikansk litteratur. www.viten.com.
Doctoral dissertation
- (2002). The Passage of Crisis: Threshold Time in Chicano LIterature.
Programme participation
- (2002). Meksikansk amerikansk litteratur.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
- (2022). Microdystopias. 16 pages.
- (2022). 'Heavenly Days' and Everyday Dystopia in Superstore. 18 pages.
- (2018). "Regional Singularity and Decolonial Chicana/o Studies". 20 pages.
- (2018). "Imagining Imaginaries in Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in The Attic". 14 pages.
- (2018). "Aesthetic Imaginaries Emerging". 1 pages.
- (2017). Imaginary. 19 pages.
- (2013). Russia's Californio Romance: The other Shores of Whitman's Pacific. 20 pages.
- (2008). The Trails of 'Stories-so-Far:' Okot p´Bitek and Rodolfo Gonzales. 22 pages.
- (2007). Introduction.
- (2007). De-Symbolization and the Cultural Act. 14 pages.
- (2007). "Introduction". 1 pages.
- (2006). "Remembering America". 14 pages.
- (2005). The Anatomy of Exile: David Malouf's An Imaginary Life and Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay. 17 pages.
- (2001). The Appropriat(ed) Protagonist in Américo Paredes' George Washington Gómez.
- (2000). The Squatter and the Don, Carry Me Like Water, and Under the Feet of Jesus: Readings of Crisis and Reconcilliation.
- (2000). "The Meaning of Place in Helena María Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus.".
Encyclopedia article
- (2004). amerikanske forfattere. 30 pages. In:
- (2004). Det store norske leksikon.
Digital learning tools
- (2003). “Women’s Press and Women’s Emancipation History”.
Book Translation
- (2004). Other Exercises.
- (2004). Open Eyes and Closed Eyes.
- (2004). AND.
Academic literature review
- (2009). "American Literary Scholarship in Languages other than English: Norwegian Contributions 2007". American Literary Scholarship. 513--519.
- (2008). American Literary Scholarship: Scandinavian Contributions". American Literary Scholarship. 521-538.
- (2008). "Nordic Contributions to American Literary Scholarship". American Literary Scholarship. 524-543.
- (2007). "Scholarship in Languages Other Than English, 2005". American Literary Scholarship. 511-520.
- (2006). Some American Studies. Estragon.
- (2005). Norwegian Contributions to American literary scholarship, in "Scandinavian Contributions 2003". American Literary Scholarship. 558-564.
Foreword
- (2021). Apprehending Aesthetic Apprehensions. 9 pages.
Chapter
- (2019). Materiality of the Invisible in David Wilson’s “California Letters”. 201-219. In:
- (2019). Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture. Palgrave Macmillan.
- (2013). "Folklore and Cultural Memory: Promises and Pitfalls". xi-xxii. In:
- (2013). Performing Wisdom: Proverbial Lore in Modern Ugangan Society. Brill|Rodopi.
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