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Current fields of research:
- Virginia Woolf and British modernism
- Leonard Woolf and social/political modernism
- Idealist and utopian political thought (1870s–1930s)
Previous:
- Fashion and literary modernity
- Literature and science
- Modern/contemporary theatre and feminism/gender studies
Courses in British literature from introductory(BA) to advanced (MA) levels.
Topics include Modernism and Colonialism, Victorian Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gender studies/queer studies, Modernism and Fashion, Modernism and the Body
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 (Scandinavian Academic Press, 2011)
Special Issue
Co-editor (with Margrete Dyvik Cardona and Ingunn Lunde), Remaining Relevant: Modern Language Studies Today, Bergen Language and Linguistic Studies vol. 7, 2017.
Scholarly articles and book chapters
International publications include articles in Modern Drama (1992) and New Literary History (1997 and 2001), Partial Answers (2019), Modernism/Modernity (2022), and book chapters in Woolf and the Art of Exploration (Clemson University Press, 2005), Woolfian Boundaries (Clemson University Press, 2006), Exploring Textual Action (Aarhus University Press, 2010), The Art of Discovery: Encounters in Literature and Science (Aarhus University Press, 2010), The Human and its Limits: Explorations in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts (Scandinavian Academic Press, 2011), Broadcasting in the Modernist Era (Bloomsbury, 2014), Exploring Texts and Emotions (Aarhus University Press, 2014), Exploring Text, Media, and Memory (Aarhus University Press, 2017), Sentencing Orlando: Virginia Woolf and the Morphology of the Modernist Sentence (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Fashion and Authorship: Literary Production and Cultural Style from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
- (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 sider.
- (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 sider.
- (2017). Remaining Relevant: Modern Language Studies Today. University of Bergen.
- (2014). Rambling Round Words: Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Broadcasting. 17 sider.
- (2014). "The Economy of Emotions: Sympathy and Sentimentality in Victorian Culture". 25 sider.
- (2012). Samuel Beckett in Bergen. The Beckett Circle. 2 sider.
- (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 sider.
- (2011). Introduction. 14 sider.
- (2010). Re-thinking the "Performative Turn" : Fashioned Bodies, Sartorial Semiotics and the Performance of Culture, 1900-1930. 21 sider.
- (2010). Modernism's Einstein: Wyndham Lewis and the Politics of Science Popularisation. 14 sider.
- (2010). Mapping, Bridging, Quilting: Tracing the Relations between Literature and Science. 20 sider.
Current:
- Micro-Utopias. Aesthetic Imaginaries Research Group
Previous:
- 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.