Academic interests
I am interested in Romance Philology and the transition from Latin to the Romance languages, especially as concerns the written culture and its connection to the spoken languages during the Roman Empire and after. I am also interested in the syntax of the Old Romance languages, and the relationship between syntax and pragmatics. I am especially interested in embedded clauses, both those embedded under so-called bridge verbs and the canonical embedded clauses. My preferred Romance language for research is Spanish, but I am also very fond of Italian.
Courses taught
- https://www.hiof.no/studier/emner/oss/2019/host/ssp10619.html
- https://www.hiof.no/studier/emner/oss/2020/var/ssp11619.html
- https://www.hiof.no/studier/emner/lu/2019/host/lmuspa10117.html
- https://www.hiof.no/studier/emner/lu/2019/host/lmuspa10317.html
Background
I have been at Østfold University College since January 2016, teaching Spanish grammar at lower levels, and language typology for master students in teacher education. In 2021 I will tecah the MFRISK Master course in Interlanguage analysis.
Befor 2016 I had a Postdoc-project at the University of Oslo on the information structure of Old Spanish. Also at the University of Oslo, I have taught Modern Spanish grammar and History of the Spanish language. My PhD-thesis was on the Glosas Emilianenses, some of the first written words and sentences in Spanish (i.e. clearly not in Latin).