Areas of responsibility
My primary field of study is Anglophone world literature and migration literature. My Ph.D. project (ongoing) is concerned with literature about refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea, in the context of the European so-called "refugee crisis" in the 2010s. In my research, I ask questions such as "how are refugees imagined in contemporary fiction" and "what role does the Mediterranean Sea play in representations of refugees". The preliminary title of my Ph.D. project is "Between War and Refuges: Mediterranean Crossings in Contemporary Refugee Fiction". I am also generally interested in the role of literature and art in challenging established discourses surrounding otherness; refugees and migrants.
Teaching
EN- 459 English Literature in Shifting Contexts: Refugee Literature (course organiser, Spring 2026)
EN- 505 Master's Thesis (supervision)
EN-167 American and British Literature - part 2 (Spring 2025, 2026)
EN-166 American and British Literature- part 1 (Autumn 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
EN-159 English Language, Literature, Culture and Didactics in Context (supervision) (Autumn 2023)
EN-212 Bachelor's thesis in English (supervision) (Spring 2023)
EN-162 American and British Literature and Culture - part 2 (Spring 2023)
EN-160 American and British Literature and Culture - part 1 (Autumn 2022)
EN-104 Introduction to American Literature and Culture (Spring 2019)
EN-103 Introduction to British Literature (Autumn 2018)
Research
Selected publications
General outreach
Together with my colleague Oda Sagebakken Slotnes, I run the podcast "Litteraturens mønstre" or "Patterns in Literature". Listen here: (in Norwegian) https://littmonst.captivate.fm/listen
'Storytelling and belonging: on two Palestinian women's voices' (title in Norwegian: 'Fortelling og tilhørighet: om to sterke palestinske kvinnestemmer'). Lecture given at the public libraries in Kristiansand and in Mandal on the 29 January 2019 and 3 April 2019. Invited by the libraries and the Palestine Comitee in Vest-Agder.