Projects

In the new project “crisis” is understood as a concept that may be linked to different foci, e.g. literature and illness; literature, trauma and therapy; literature’s possibilities to address crises/verbalise crises; literature’s affordances; literature as problem-solving discourse; literary utopias/dystopias in response to different crises (also global crises); literature as resistance or as dissenting voice; and literature in the digital era (is literature itself in crisis?).

The research group "Litteratur og Narrativitet/Literature and Narrativity” began work on a new project in 2021. The working title is: Of Ruin and Regeneration: Narratives of Hope and Despair. The anthology will be written in English and published with a major international publisher. The editors are Deanna Benjamin, Melanie Duckworth, and Johanna M. Wagner.

This anthology, "Fortellinger om migrasjon" (Narratives about migration), is especially relevant for those working within literary, cultural and linguistic studies, especially Nordic, Romance and German language studies, and teacher education. It will also be relevant for researchers, students and others who take an interest in Nordic and international literature.

This collection brings together scholars from various disciplines to ask fundamental questions concerning how women handle the manifold impediments, tangible and otherwise, placed before them as they simply attempt to live full human lives.

Today, globalization, migration and political polarization complicate the individual’s search for a cohesive identity making identity formation and transformation key issues in everyday life. This collection of essays highlights a number of the dimensions of identity, including cultural hybridity, religion, ethnicity, profession, gender, sexuality, and childhood, and explores how they are thematized in different narratives.

This volume brings together the proceedings of “Going North: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Travel and Intercultural Communication” held in Halden, Norway, in 2016.

In this volume sixteen essays, in either German or English, present readings of international narratives for children and young adults (CYAL), including films and picture books, within a narratological framework.

States of Decadence is a two volume anthology that focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence. Particular attention is given to literature from the end of the 1800s, the fin de siècle: however, the essays presented here are not restricted to this historical period, but draw lines both back in time and forward to our day to illuminate the contradictory multiplicity inherent in decadence.

States of Decadence is a two volume anthology that focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence. Particular attention is given to literature from the end of the 1800s, the fin de siècle: however, the essays presented here are not restricted to this historical period, but draw lines both back in time and forward to our day to illuminate the contradictory multiplicity inherent in decadence.