Academic interests
Corpus-assisted discourse analysis, language for specific purposes (LSP), envionrmental humanities, specialized translation.
Courses taught
- French grammar
- Specialized translation
- Sociolinguistics
Background
Anje Müller Gjesdal holds a PhD in French language from the University of Bergen (2008) with a thesis on scientific text genres. From 2014-2018, she held a post doc position at the Norwegian School of Economics, which examined climate change communication in specialized genres. Gjesdal was PI for the research project "Changing Nature. A lexical and argumentative analysis of public debates on nature (1998-2017)", funded by the Research Council of Norway (2018-2022). The project used neology studies as a lens to to investigate environmental debates in Norway in the 2000s.