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- Virginia Woolf and British modernism
- Leonard Woolf, colonialism and totalitarianism
- Modernism and Colonialism
- Fashion and literary modernity
- Literature and science
- Performance and performativity
- Contemporary theatre
- Gender in performance
Monographs
Scenes of Infidelity: Feminism in the Theatre (Solum Press, 1997)
Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernity (Edinburgh University Press, 2009; pb. 2011). See
http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748638727
http://res.oxfordjournals.org/content/61/251/659/full
Edited collections (with Margareth Hagen and Margery Vibe Skagen)
The Art of Discovery: Encounters in Literature and Science (Aarhus University Press, 2010). See
http://www.unipress.dk/en-gb/Item.aspx?sku=2434
The Human and Its Limits (Spartacus, 2011; forthcoming)
Scholarly articles
Professor Koppen has published internationally on literature and science, contemporary drama and modernist fiction. International publications include articles in Modern Drama (35, 1992) and New Literary History (28.4, 1997 and 32.2, 2001), as well as contributions to Woolf and the Art of Exploration and Woolfian Boundaries, Selected Papers of the Annual International Woolf Conferences in 2005 and 2006 (Clement University Press). Current projects are within Victorian fiction, addressing the role of emotion in the industrial novel (Dickens and Gaskell) and the human/machine interface (Samuel Butler).
- (2024). Koppen R. Participatory Democracy and the British Utopian Tradition: Leonard Woolf’s Co-operative Commonwealth in Historical Perspective. . Journal of British Studies.
- (2022). The Loose Mass, The Open Society, and the Co-operative Commonwealth: Altermodernities Between the Wars. Modernism/Modernity.
- (2020). ‘Down to the last button ... in the fashion of the hour’: Virginia Woolf and the Writer of Modern Fiction. 24 pages.
- (2020). Virginia Woolf and the World of Books: the Centenary of the Hogarth Press. European Journal of English Studies (EJES). 100-101.
- (2019). The Work of the Witness: Leonard Woolf, Imperialism, and Totalitarianism. Partial Answers. 209-226.
- (2018). The Negress and the Bishop: On Marriage, Colonialism, and the Problem of Knowledge.
- (2017). “We are ourselves fremdsprachig”: Foreign Literature Studies in the Twenty-First Century . Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS). 87-102.
- (2017). Remembering Ceylon: Leonard Woolf’s Colony in the Age of Extremism. 20 pages.
- (2017). Remaining Relevant: Modern Language Studies Today. University of Bergen.
- (2014). Rambling Round Words: Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Broadcasting. 17 pages.
- (2014). "The Economy of Emotions: Sympathy and Sentimentality in Victorian Culture". 25 pages.
- (2012). Samuel Beckett in Bergen. The Beckett Circle. 2 pages.
- (2011). The human and its limits : explorations in science, literature and the visual arts. Spartacus.
- (2011). Men, Machines and Money: Samuel Butler's Erewhon (1871). 16 pages.
- (2011). Introduction. 14 pages.
- (2010). Re-thinking the "Performative Turn" : Fashioned Bodies, Sartorial Semiotics and the Performance of Culture, 1900-1930. 21 pages.
- (2010). Modernism's Einstein: Wyndham Lewis and the Politics of Science Popularisation. 14 pages.
- (2010). Mapping, Bridging, Quilting: Tracing the Relations between Literature and Science. 20 pages.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
- Narrative, Memory, History: Reading Legacies of Totalitarianism
- Text, Action, Space: Performative language and topographical patterns as converging areas in modern drama, prose fiction and film. An Inter-Disciplinary Approach to Aesthetic and Cultural Studies https://www.uib.no/fg/teksthandlingrom
Dr.art. in British Literature 1995. Professor of British Literature 2009.