Academic activities
Associate Professor of French Literature. PhD in 2003, Docent in 2015, Lund University. Employed at Lund University 1997-2020, from February 2021 at Østfold University College.
Research interests are for instance the French nineteenth-century novel (e.g. Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert) the role and function of literature, space/place in literature, the role of emotions in literature and literature teaching.
2016-2021 active within the research programme Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures” (https://www.rj.se/en/grants/2015/cosmpolitan-and-vernacular-dynamics-in-world-literatures/), where I have been coeditor of two anthologies, the last one by Bloomsbury: Literature and the Making of the World: Cosmopolitan Texts, Vernacular Practices (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/literature-and-the-making-of-the-world-9781501374159). My chapter treats images of Paris in novels by Balzac and Flaubert.
I have also published studies on the translation and reception of French literature in Sweden in the nineteenth century, the "bovarysm" of Jules de Gaultier, narrative endings in Balzac and mimetic desire in the novels of Stendhal and Balzac.
A coming study analyses students' readings of two novels by Patrick Modiano and Fred Vargas in relation to theoretical concepts like "intérêt" and "émotion narrative" (Vincent Jouve), "attachment", "recognition" and "attunement" (Rita Felski). One of my next projects consists in coordinating/editing a volume for Revue Stendhal, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle: https://www.fabula.org/actualites/123355/enseigner-stendhal-aujourd-hui-revue-stendhal-n-8-2027.html
Commitments
Leader of the project "Literature in context" within ELLA (Education Literature Language), Språk i opplæringen, Høgskolen i Østfold: https://www.hiof.no/forskning/satsingsomrader/sprak-i-oppleringen/ella/litteratur-i-kontekst/
Completed commitments as opponent, member of examining committees and peer reviewer within several areas: Proust, S. de Beauvoir, Sand, Zola, Hugo, Stendhal (for French Studies, OUP), emotion studies, translation, reception, didactics.
In the scientific committee of the journals Revue Stendhal (Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle) and Moderna Språk (responsible for French literature).
Representative for Østfold in Nasjonalt fagorgan for romanske språk og litteratur.
In the direction committee of The Literary Society of Lund (Lundensiska Litteratursällskapet) and Forum for Comparative Literature / Komplitt at Lund University (se https://www.sol.lu.se/komplitt/network-and-contact/ )
Courses and supervision
I teach and supervise in various areas within the literary field and literature didactics: the nineteenth-century novel (e.g. Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert) and contemporary novel (e.g. Camus, Modiano, Ernaux, Le Clézio, Vargas), literary theory, literary history and literary translation. I have also taught and supervised topics on French literature from the eighteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as from the Middle Ages.
I also supervise in the area literature and AI. See the following event to get ideas for projects : https://www.hiof.no/forskning/satsingsomrader/sprak-i-oppleringen/ella/arrangementer/literature-and-ai-workshop
- SFF11320-1 Fransk litteratur (within Fransk litteratur og kulturkunnskap)
- SFF11520 Fransk litteratur og teori
- SFF21515 Den franske 1800-tallsromanen: réalisme et désir (Bachelor)
- SFBS30221-1 Lingvistisk og litteraturvitenskapelig metode (Bachelor)
- SFF42115-1 Litteratur i undervisningen II SFF42315 (Master/MFRISK)
- SFF42315 Master thesis (literature, literature didactics)
- SFE35021-1 Bacheloroppgave
Background
1996-2020 Researcher and lecturer at Lund University (French, Comparative literature, Translation studies)
2019-2021 Lecturer and supervisor at Linnéuniversitetet/ Linnæus University and Malmö Universitet (Comparative literature, Creative writing, Teacher education)
2016-2021 Employed within the research programme ”Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in World Literatures” via Stockholm University (fundings from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, see https://www.rj.se/en/grants/2015/cosmpolitan-and-vernacular-dynamics-in-world-literatures)
2015 Docent (Habilitation à diriger des recherches), Lund University
2006–2007 Scholarship (postdoc) from Einar Hansens Allhemsstiftelse
2003–2005: Employed within the Scandinavian project "Le Réalisme Français en Scandinavie" with fundings from NOS-H and RJ.
2003, PhD French literature, Lund university
2000–2001 Invited researcher at Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III and Université Stendhal-Grenoble III (STINT)
1995 Teacher diploma at Upper Secondary School: French, English (gymnasielärarexamen)
1995 Master of philosophy, English, French (Fil. mag.), Lund university
1993–1994 Studies of French literature and theory at Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille I), Aix-en-Provence
1991–1992 Studies in French at Lund University
1989–1991 Studies of English literature at Lund University and University of Sussex
Awards
Vetenskapssocieteten in Lund: prize for doctoral thesis.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters,
Uno Lindgrens Pris: prize for research on French realism in Scandinavia ("för att med omsorg och lyhördhet ha studerat Stendhalreceptionen i Sverige och bidragit till att kartlägga de kulturella förbindelserna mellan Sverige och Frankrike under senare delen av 1800-talet").
Networks/cooperation
Forum för komparativ litteraturvetenskap, Komplitt, Lunds universitet: https://www.sol.lu.se/komplitt/network-and-contact/
Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, UK (SDN): https://uksdn.co.uk
Société des études romantiques et dix-neuviémistes (SERD): https://serd.hypotheses.org
Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies (CNCS), Denmark: https://cc.au.dk/en/centre-for-nineteenth-century-studies
Nordic Network for Narratives in Medicine, Lund university: https://www.medical-humanities.lu.se/nordic-network-narratives-medicine
Mimesis Scandinavis, forskergrupp om René Girard og mimetisk teori