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Reinhard Hennig

Professor
Department of Nordic and Media Studies
Phone
+47 38141181
Mobile phone
+4793925010
Office E1060 (Universitetsveien 25, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway)

Research

I am professor of Nordic literature with a research focus on ecocriticism and interdisciplinary environmental humanities. Together with Sissel Furuseth, I have written Økokritisk håndbok (2023), the first Norwegian-language introduction to ecocriticism. Together with Anna-Karin Jonasson and Peter Degerman, I have edited the volume Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment. Ecocritical Approaches to Northern European Literatures and Cultures (2018), and together with Emily Lethbridge and Michael Schulte the volume Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies. Nature and the Environment in Old Norse Literature and Culture (2023). My research and other publications focus on how literary texts address environmental change, the Anthropocene, education for sustainable development, children's and young adult literature, contemporary literature from Northern Europe, and Old Norse literature and culture. I am co-founder and coordinator of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN), and president of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE). I am also a member of the steering committee of Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH) and of the Advisory Board of Ecozon@. European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment and of the book series Nature, Culture and Literature (Brill) and Ecocriticism Unbound (DeGruyter).

More information on my research, my publications and other academic activities is available at www.reinhardhennig.net.

Selected publications

Anthropocene Aesthetics: Norwegian Literature in a New Geological Epoch.” NORDEUROPAforum. Journal for the Study of Culture 2021, 105–130.

Memory of Environmental and Climatic Change in the Sagas of Icelanders.” Scandinavian Studies 91 (3), 2019, 323-344.

Knowing the Right Thing, but Not Doing It. Knut Hamsun’s Markens grøde in the Anthropocene.” NORDEUROPAforum. Journal for the Study of Culture 2018, 16-43.

General outreach

March 2024: Video presentasjon on Growth of the Soil and sustainability as a part of the Hamsun Centre's exhibition "The controversial Hamsun".

15.12.2023: "Saga­forfattarane skreiv om miljø­problem allereie for 800 år sidan". Article on forskning.no

Short biography

Since March 2021: Professor of Nordic literature at the Department of Nordic and Media Studies, University of Agder, Norway

2018-2021: Associate Professor of Nordic literature at the Department of Nordic and Media Studies, University of Agder, Norway

2017: Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, Norway

2014-16: Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Humanities, Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden

2014: PhD in Scandinavian Studies; University of Bonn, Germany

2013: Research stay at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, Norway

2012: Research stay at EDDA - Center of Excellence, University of Iceland, Reykjavík

2009-2011: Lecturer at the Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Münster, Germany

2008-2012: Research assistant at the Department for Scandinavian Studies, University of Bonn, Germany

2008: M.A. in Scandinavian Studies, medieval and modern history; University of Bonn, Germany

2003-2008: Studies in Scandinavian Studies, medieval and modern history; University of Freiburg, Germany; University of Gothenburg, Sweden; University of Bonn, Germany

Publications

  • Hennig, Reinhard (2024). Bærekraftig utvikling i skogen? Økokritiske lesninger av bøkene om mormor og de åtte ungene. In Bjorvand, Agnes-Margrethe; Omland, Siv-Terese & Takle, Cecilie (Ed.), Anne-Cath. Vestly. Nye lesninger av forfatterskapet. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202784348. p. 140–159.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2023). Imagining a Viking Age Risk Society. Threats, Risks, and Manufactured Uncertainties in the Sagas of Icelanders. In Hennig, Reinhard; Lethbridge, Emily & Schulte, Michael (Ed.), Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies. Nature and the Environment in Old Norse Literature and Culture. Brepols. ISSN 978-2-503-60484-8. p. 137–163. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1484/M.NAW-EB.5.134098.
  • Hennig, Reinhard; Lethbridge, Emily & Schulte, Michael (2023). Combining Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies: Opportunities and Challenges. In Hennig, Reinhard; Lethbridge, Emily & Schulte, Michael (Ed.), Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies. Nature and the Environment in Old Norse Literature and Culture. Brepols. ISSN 978-2-503-60484-8. p. 11–36. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1484/M.NAW-EB.5.134093.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2021). Anthropocene Aesthetics: Norwegian Literature in a New Geological Epoch . NORDEUROPAforum. ISSN 1863-639X. p. 105–130. doi: 10.18452/23921. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2021). Miljøhumaniora, økokritikk og utdanning for bærekraftig utvikling i norskfaget. In Axelsson, Marcus & Opset, Barbro Bredesen (Ed.), Fortellinger om bærekraftig utvikling. Perspektiver for norskfaget. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 978-82-15-05008-9. p. 13–38. doi: https:/doi.org/10.18261/9788215050089-2021-01. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2021). Miljø og medborgerskap i Arne Svingens barnebok En himmel full av skyer. Norsklæreren. ISSN 0332-7264. p. 40–55. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2021). Fra frykt til fremtidstro: Klimaendringer i nordiske bildebøker. In Goga, Nina & Larsen, Marianne Eskebæk (Ed.), På tværs af Norden. Økokritiske strømninger i nordisk børne- og ungdomslitteratur. Nordisk ministerråd. ISSN 9789289367424. p. 52–57. doi: https:/doi.org/10.6027/nord2021-009. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2020). No Future, No Past? How Consciousness of the Anthropocene Changes Environmentalist Narratives. In Ahlbeck, Jutta; Meurer-Bongardt, Judith; Tidigs, Julia & Österlund, Mia (Ed.), Vill jag vistas här bör jag byta blick. Texter om litteratur, miljö och historia tillägnade Pia Maria Ahlbäck. Föreningen Granskaren. ISSN 978-952-12-3984-7. p. 43–63.
  • Furuseth, Sissel; Gjelsvik, Anne; Gürata, Ahmet; Hennig, Reinhard; Leyda, Julia & Ritson, Katie (2020). Climate Change in Literature, Television and Film from Norway. Ecozona. ISSN 2171-9594. 11(2), p. 8–16. doi: 10.37536/ECOZONA.2020.11.2.3468. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2020). Sagas for Sustainability? Commons, Conflict and Cooperation in the Sagas of Icelanders. Scandia Journal of Medieval Norse Studies. ISSN 2595-9107. p. 36–63. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2019). An Arctic Archive for the Anthropocene: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault. In Frank, Susi K. & Jakobsen, Kjetil Ansgar (Ed.), Arctic Archives: Ice, Memory and Entropy. Transcript Verlag. ISSN 978-3837646566. p. 197–217. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2019). Å trosse naturen i seg selv. Kjønn og kjønnsroller i Maja Lundes roman Bienes historie. Norsk Litterær Årbok. ISSN 0078-1266. p. 272–290. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2019). Memory of Environmental and Climatic Change in the Sagas of Icelanders. Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5637. 91(3), p. 323–344. doi: 10.5406/scanstud.91.3.0323.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2019). Aesthetic Appreciation of Landscape in the Sagas of Icelanders. In Egeler, Matthias (Eds.), Landscape and Myth in North-Western Europe. Brepols. ISSN 978-2-503-58040-1. p. 45–61. doi: 10.1484/M.BBL.5.115990.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2019). Jostein Gaarder's The World According to Anna (2013/2015) - Didactic Cli-Fi. In Goodbody, Axel & Johns-Putra, Adeline (Ed.), Cli-Fi. A Companion. Peter Lang Publishing Group. ISSN 978-1-78874-072-2. p. 181–186.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2018). Environmental Humanities. In Glauser, Jürg; Hermann, Pernille & Mitchell, Stephen A. (Ed.), Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies. Interdisciplinary Approaches. Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter). ISSN 978-3-11-043136-0. p. 327–332. doi: 10.1515/9783110431360.
  • Hennig, Reinhard; Jonasson, Anna-Karin & Degerman, Peter (2018). Introduction: Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment. In Hennig, Reinhard; Jonasson, Anna-Karin & Degerman, Peter (Ed.), Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment. Ecocritical Approaches to Northern European Literatures and Cultures. Lexington Books. ISSN 978-1-4985-6190-7. p. 1–18.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2018). Knowing the Right Thing, but Not Doing It. Knut Hamsun’s Markens grøde in the Anthropocene. NORDEUROPAforum. ISSN 1863-639X. p. 16–43. doi: 10.18452/19210.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2018). Environmental Concern as (Counter)Cultural Criticism in the Novels of Jón Kalman Stefánsson. In Wolfrum, Friederike & Kriesch, Désirée (Ed.), Counter | Culture. Literature, Language, Agency. Verlag Königshausen & Neumann. ISSN 978-3-8260-5815-8. p. 171–186.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2017). Miljö och minne: att skapa ett långtidsperspektiv på hållbarhetsfrågor. In Andresen, Edit; Lidén, Gustav & Nyhlén, Sara (Ed.), Hållbarhetens många ansikten: Samtal, forskning och fantasier. Mittuniversitetet. ISSN 978-91-88527-37-0. p. 117–125.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2017). Climate Change Denial in Literary Fiction: Gert Nygårdshaug’s ‘Eco-Thriller’ Chimera. REAL: Yearbook of research in English and American literature. ISSN 0723-0338. 33, p. 191–215. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2015). Aus der Vergangenheit lernen? Die Bedeutung der mittelalterlichen isländischen Literatur für die Umweltdiskussion der Gegenwart. In Botanova, Kateryna; Cooiman, Jurriaan; Croizier, Florence & Giger, Ursula (Ed.), Culturescapes Island: Zwischen Sagas und Pop. Christoph Merian Verlag. ISSN 978-3-85616-676-2. p. 45–52.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2015). Environmental Scarcity and Abundance in Medieval Icelandic Literature. RCC Perspectives. ISSN 2190-5088. p. 37–43. doi: 10.5282/rcc/7145.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2014). Postcolonial Ecology: an Ecocritical Reading of Andri Snær Magnason’s Dreamland. A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation. In Körber, Lill-Ann & Volquardsen, Ebbe (Ed.), The Postcolonial North Atlantic. Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Freie Universität Berlin. ISSN 978-3-932406-35-5. p. 105–126.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2013). Framtíðin er nú. Um skáldsögu Anna eftir Jostein Gaarder. Spássían. ISSN 1670-8709. 12, p. 32–35.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2013). Ecocritical Realism: Nature, Culture, and Reality in Icelandic Environmental Literature. In Birke, Dorothee & Butter, Stella (Ed.), Realisms in Contemporary Culture. Theories, Politics, and Medial Configurations. Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter). ISSN 978-3-11-031291-1. p. 109–123. doi: 10.1515/9783110312911.109.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2013). 'It Is Immoral to Be a Pessimist.' Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Norwegian Literary Fiction. Tvergastein. ISSN 1893-5605. 3, p. 44–50.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2012). Das Lachen der Könige in den altnordischen 'Konunga sögur'. In Kuhn, Christian & Bießenecker, Stefan (Ed.), Valenzen des Lachens ins der Vormoderne 1250-1750. Bamberg University Press. ISSN 978-3-86309-098-2. p. 385–411.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2012). Að skipta um skoðun. Jarðnæði Oddnýjar Eirar Ævarsdóttur í samhengi umhverfisverndarbókmennta. Spássían. ISSN 1670-8709. 10, p. 35–40.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2012). Traumland unter Wasser: Umweltschutz auf Isländisch. Norrøna : Zeitschrift für Kultur, Geschichte und Politik der Skandinavischen Länder. ISSN 0932-2787. 45, p. 50–61.

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  • Hennig, Reinhard (2024). Nachhaltigkeit und nachhaltige Entwicklung in der altnordischen Literatur.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2024). Forskerfokus: Klima, miljø og bærekraft i norrøn litteratur.
  • Skogheim, Cathrine & Hennig, Reinhard (2024). Reiser nesten 30 timer for å være med på åpningen. [Newspaper]. Avisa Nordland.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2024). Markens grøde: Et budskap om bærekraft?
  • Wehus, Walter Norman & Hennig, Reinhard (2023). Saga­forfattarane skreiv om miljø­problem allereie for 800 år sidan. [Internet]. forskning.no.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2023). Deltakelse i panelsamtale om "Bærekraftskommunikasjon: hva fungerer best, og hvorfor er det vanskelig?".
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2023). Ecocriticism and Old Norse Literature and Culture.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2023). The Anthropocene Chronotope: Time and Place in Charlotte Weitze’s Den afskyelige and in Christian Byskov’s Græsset.
  • Furuseth, Sissel & Hennig, Reinhard (2023). Økokritisk håndbok - klima og miljø i litteraturen.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2023). Ecocriticism in Europe: Past, Present, and Future.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2022). Klima, miljø og bærekraft i norrøn litteratur.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2022). Ecocriticism und altnordische Literatur.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2021). Change, Continuity, Sustainable Development: The Viking Age Environment in the Sagas of Icelanders.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2021). Om klima, miljø og bærekraft i nordisk skjønnlitteratur. [Internet]. https://www.uia.no/.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2021). Naturressourcen und Nachhaltigkeit in den Isländersagas.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2021). Nostalgia, Ecocatastrophe, or Sustainability? Environmental Storytelling and Ecocritical Theory.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2020). Introduction: Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2020). Imagining a Viking Age Risk Society. Environmental Risk and Manufactured Uncertainties in the Sagas of Icelanders .
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2020). Paneldebatt. Øvelser i økokritisk tenkning.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2020). Det kan være trøst i katastrofelitteraturen. Fædrelandsvennen. ISSN 0805-3790. p. 22–22.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2020). Writing the Anthropocene: Contemporary Norwegian Literature and the Global Environmental Crisis.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2020). Utdanning for bærekraftig utvikling og økokritikk.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2019). Bærekraftig utvikling som tverrfaglig tema i språk- og litteraturfag.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2019). Bærekraftig utvikling som tverrfaglig tema i norskfaget.
  • Guanio-Uluru, Lykke ; Hennig, Reinhard & Myren-Svelstad, Per Esben (2019). Skolens læreplan overser elevenes miljøengasjement. Fædrelandsvennen. ISSN 0805-3790.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2019). Klimakatastrofen som skjønnlitteratur. Knut Faldbakkens Uår og nyere norsk klimafiksjon .
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2019). Skjønnlitteratur, økokritikk og utdanning for bærekraftig utvikling.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2018). The Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies: Background and Perspectives.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2018). Margareta Petersson & Rikard Schönström (eds.): Nordens litteratur. European Journal of Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 2191-9399. 48(2), p. 348–351. doi: 10.1515/ejss-2018-0029.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2018). Nordic Negotiations of Ecocitizenship in the Anthropocene Garden: Charlotte Weitze’s Novel Den afskyelige.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2018). Henning Wærp: Arktisk litteratur. Fra Fridtjof Nansen til Anne B. Ragde. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. ISSN 0013-0818. 105(3), p. 261–265. doi: 10.18261/issn.1500-1989-2018-03-09.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2018). Bærekraftig litteraturvitenskap? Økokritikkens bidrag til humanistisk miljøforskning.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2018). Narrating Ecocitizenship in Nordic Novels of the Anthropocene.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2018). Økokritikk og utdanning for bærekraftig utvikling.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2017). Literary Memory of Environmental and Climatic Change in the Sagas of Icelanders.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2017). Literature and Literary Studies in the Anthropocene.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2017). Ellen Rees: Cabins in Modern Norwegian Literature. Negotiating Place and Identity. European Journal of Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 2191-9399. 47(2), p. 402–407.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2017). Markens grøde i antropocen.
  • Furuseth, Sissel & Hennig, Reinhard (2017). Ecocriticism and Environmental Education.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2016). Natural Resources, Sustainability and Environmental Change in Medieval Icelandic Literature.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2016). Naturens undergång? Litteratur och litteraturvetenskap i antropocen.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2016). Klimatförändringar som litterärt motiv och som etiskt gränsöverskridande.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2016). Sagas for Sustainability: Altnordistik und die Environmental Humanities.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2016). Collapse or Continuity? Norwegian Climate Change Fiction from the 1970s to Present-Day.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2015). Naturresurser och miljö i den fornnordiska litteraturen.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2015). The Construction of Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2015). Mittelalterliche Ökologie? Vormoderne literarische Texte als Quellen der Umweltforschung.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2015). Saga-Ökologie: Naturressourcen, Umweltbedingungen und kulturelles Gedächtnis in der altisländischen Literatur.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2014). Deep-Frozen Hope in the Arctic: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2014). Writing as Climate Activism: Environmental Counterculture in Recent Literary Fiction.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2014). Isak Sellanraa als Klimaflüchtling. Ökologische Szenarien in der norwegischen Gegenwartsliteratur.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2014). Golden Age and Environmental Change in Medieval Icelandic Literature.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2014). Norwegian Eco-Cosmopolitanism Going Arctic: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2014). Constructing Collective Environmental Memory: Representations of Scarcity and Abundance in Medieval Icelandic Literature.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2014). Naturressourcen, Umweltbedingungen und kulturelles Gedächtnis im mittelalterlichen Island.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2014). No Future and No Past? How the Anthropocene Changes Environmentalist Narratives.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2013). Vær litt norsk, vern en torsk! Umweltbewegung und umwelt-engagierte Literatur im Norwegen der Gegenwart.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2013). Die vermeidbare Katastrophe? Öko-Dystopien in der norwegischen Gegenwartsliteratur.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2012). Genuinely Icelandic? Literary Environmentalism in Iceland and the Problem of 'Foreign Influence'.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2012). Cod Liver Oil for the Mind: Icelandic Environmental Literature from Laxness to Present Day.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2012). Lupinen, Staudämme und schmelzende Gletscher: Die Umweltbewegung in Island und ihre Geschichte.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2011). Ecological Crisis as Cultural Crisis: Industrialisation and Icelandicness in Andri Snær Magnason's Dreamland. A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2011). Literatur als Umweltaktivismus? Andri Snær Magnasons Draumalandið - Sjálfshjálparbók handa hræddri þjóð.
  • Hennig, Reinhard (2011). Postcolonial Ecology: Environmental Discourse and the Icelandic Past in Andri Snær Magnason's Draumalandið. Sjálfshjálparbók handa hræddri þjóð.
  • Huntebrinker, Berit; Hennig, Reinhard & Slettan, Svein (2023). Narrating Environmental Citizenship. Norwegian picturebooks and comics in the Anthropocene. University of Agder. ISSN 978-82-8427-100-2. Full text in Research Archive

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