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My research interests and teaching are generally in American Studies, but also Chicano studies, Postcolonial studies, and more generally literatures of/in migration and the ideological, cultural, social and aesthetic manifestations and negotiations of the en-route as these are refracted in narratives. Currently I am interested in aesthetic imaginaries and their refractions (see http://www.uib.no/rg/ai) in text and image.
Research stays connected to various projects include visits as Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Literature Program, Duke University (1996-97); as visiting scholar in the Centre for Chicano Studies., University of California Santa Barbara (2000), in the History of Consciousness Department, University of California Santa Cruz (2005-06), the Literature Department, University of California Santa Cruz (2009, 2011) and Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute at the University of Georgia (2017-18.)
Teaching includes courses on undergraduate and graduate levels, from the introductory survey course in American literature and culture (ENG122) to MA courses in various areas of American literatures and cultures.
Supervision of MA theses covers a wide range of topics and genres in American literature/culture, as well as some areas of American popular culture studies. I currently also supervise two PhD projects.
- (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.
- (2021). "American Studies in Norway".
- (2019). “The Future of Remembering in a small town in the American South”.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (2008). Amerikas Historier: på Langs. REPLIKK – Tidsskrift for samfunnsvitskap og humaniora. 16-23.
- (2002). Grenseland i meksikansk-amerikansk litteratur. www.viten.com.
- (2002). The Passage of Crisis: Threshold Time in Chicano LIterature.
- (2002). Meksikansk amerikansk litteratur.
- (2022). Microdystopias. 16 sider.
- (2022). 'Heavenly Days' and Everyday Dystopia in Superstore. 18 sider.
- (2018). "Regional Singularity and Decolonial Chicana/o Studies". 20 sider.
- (2018). "Imagining Imaginaries in Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in The Attic". 14 sider.
- (2018). "Aesthetic Imaginaries Emerging". 1 sider.
- (2017). Imaginary. 19 sider.
- (2013). Russia's Californio Romance: The other Shores of Whitman's Pacific. 20 sider.
- (2008). The Trails of 'Stories-so-Far:' Okot p´Bitek and Rodolfo Gonzales. 22 sider.
- (2007). Introduction.
- (2007). De-Symbolization and the Cultural Act. 14 sider.
- (2007). "Introduction". 1 sider.
- (2006). "Remembering America". 14 sider.
- (2005). The Anatomy of Exile: David Malouf's An Imaginary Life and Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay. 17 sider.
- (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.".
- (2004). amerikanske forfattere. 30 sider. I:
- (2004). Det store norske leksikon.
- (2003). “Women’s Press and Women’s Emancipation History”.
- (2004). Other Exercises.
- (2004). Open Eyes and Closed Eyes.
- (2004). AND.
- (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.
- (2021). Apprehending Aesthetic Apprehensions. 9 sider.
- (2019). Materiality of the Invisible in David Wilson’s “California Letters”. 201-219. I:
- (2019). Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture. Palgrave Macmillan.
- (2013). "Folklore and Cultural Memory: Promises and Pitfalls". xi-xxii. I:
- (2013). Performing Wisdom: Proverbial Lore in Modern Ugangan Society. Brill|Rodopi.
Se fullstendig oversikt over publikasjoner i CRIStin.
In Progress:
Book project: Aesthetics of Critical Regionalism
Essay: "Aesthetic Justice and Figuration of the Possible"
Forthcoming:
Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment. Edited with Asbjørn Grønstad. (Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield 2022)
BOOKS:
Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silences and Absences in False Familiarities. Edited with Jena Habegger-Conti. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, “Transforming Literary Studies,” 2021
Site-Seeing Aesthetics: California Sojourns in Five Installations. Leiden, Brill, "Spatial Practices," 2020
Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries. Edited with Mark Ledbetter. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, “Transforming Literary Studies,” 2018
Horizons of Enchantment: Essays in the American Imaginary, University Press of New England, 2011
Performing Change: Identity, Ownership and Tradition in Ugandan Oral Culture. Eds. Dominica Dipio, Lene Johannessen, Stuart Sillars. Oslo: Novus, 2009
Performing Community: Essays on Ugandan Oral Culture. Eds. Dominica Dipio, Lene Johannessen, Stuart Sillars. Oslo: Novus, 2008
Threshold Time: Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2008.
Considering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream. Berlin: LitVerlag, 2007. Co-edited and introduction with Kevin Cahill.
Readings of the Particular: The Postcolonial in the Postnational.Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2007. Co-edited and introduction with Anne Holden Rønning.
To Become the Self One Is: A Critical Companion to Drude Krog Janson’s A Saloonkeeper’s Daughter. Oslo: Novus, 2005. Co-edited and introduction with Asbjørn Grønstad.
ARTICLES / ESSAYS (selected):
“Apprehending Aesthetic Apprehensions,» with Jena Habegger-Conti. In Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silences and Absences in False Familiarities. Edited with Jena Habegger-Conti. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, “Transforming Literary Studies,” 2021
«Apprehensive Figurations: Monuments in “Site-Specific Performances. In Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silences and Absences in False Familiarities. Edited with Jena Habegger-Conti. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, “Transforming Literary Studies,” 2021
“Materiality of the Invisible in David Wilson’s Letters.” Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture, eds. Asbjørn Grønstad and Øyvind Vågnes, Palgrave Macmillan. 2019.
“Regional Singularity and Decolonial Chicana/o Studies,” Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies, Eds. Francisco A. Lomelí, Denise A. Segura, Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe, Routledge 2019.
“Imagining Imaginaries in Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic.” In Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries. Edited with Mark Ledbetter. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, 2018.
“Introduction: Aesthetic Imaginaries Emerging.” In Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries. Edited with Mark Ledbetter. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, 2018.
"Poetics of Peril," CounterText, special edition Thinking Literature Across Continents, 3 (3): 2017, Edinburgh University Press, 377–391.
"Imaginary", with Ruben Moi. In Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections, eds. Johan Schimanski and Stephen F. Wolfe, Berghahn Books, 2017.
Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific,” The Imaginary and Its Worlds: American Studies After the Transnational Turn, eds. Laura Bieger, Ramon Saldivar, and Johannes Voelz. UPNE 2013
"Introduction: Folkore and Cultural Memory: Promises and Pitfalls," Performing Wisdom: Proverbial Lore in Modern Ugandan Society, eds Dominica Dipio and Stuart Sillars, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2013
"Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific," in The Imaginary and Its Worlds: American Studies after the Transnational Turn, eds Laura Bieger, Ramón Saldívar, Johannes Volz,University Press of New England, 2013.
"Postcolonial Palimpsest: Hybridity and Writing," Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literatures. CUP 2012
“De-Symbolization and the Cultural Act,” Border Poetics De-Limited.Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag 2007: 163-176.
“The Anatomy of Exile: David Malouf's An Imaginary Life and Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay,” Violence and Transgression in World Minority Literatures. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. 2005: 381-397.
“’The insincere embrace:’ Canons and the Market,” American Studies in Scandinavia 2004: 36(2): 77-92.
”The Lonely Figure: Memory of Exile in Ana Menéndez' “In Cuba I was a German Shepherd.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 2005: 41(1): 54-68.
"Aesthetic Imaginaries"
"Microdystopias"
- M.A., American Literature, University of Bergen, 1994
- Dr.art (PhD), American Literature, University of Bergen, 2001
- Associate professor, English Dept, University of Bergen, 2005
- Professor, American literature, IF, 2010