Forskningsgruppen studerer tidlig moderne og moderne kulturer. I utgangspunktet legger vi spesiell vekt på kulturelle uttrykk fra renessansen, og deres vedvarende påvirkning på europeisk kultur helt frem til vår tid.
Vi tilfører nye og tverrfaglige tilnærminger til tidligmoderne Europa og moderniteten. Dette øker bevisstheten for hvordan urban kultur og økonomi var viktige for å skape grobunn ikke bare for en tolerant, kritisk offentlighet, men også for politiske og religiøse konflikter som fortsatt hjemsøker oss.
Prosjekter med utspring i forskningsgruppen er synkronske og diakroniske, i tillegg til tverrfaglige, kontekstuelle og komparative.
Book series
Since 2006, the research group publishes the book series Early Modern and Modern Studies (Fabrizio Serra Editore; Pisa & Roma), comprising monographs, collections of essays and critical editions.
- Ashes to Ashes. Art in Rome between Humanism and Maniera (red Roy Eriksen of Victor Plathe Tschudi, 2006)
- Urban Preoccupations, Mental and Material Landscapes (red Per Sivefors, 2007)
- Imitation, Representation and Printing in the Italian Renaissance (red Magne Malmanger og Roy Eriksen, 2009)
- Serafino Della Salandra: Adamo caduto (red Flavio Giacoantonio, 2009)
- The Formation of Genera in Early Modern Culture (red Clare Lapraik Guest, 2009)
- John Milton, Il Paradiso perduto (trad Flavio Giacomantonio, 2009)
- Il Paradiso perduto di John Milton e il tema della caduta nella tradizione letteraria da Gimbattista Andreini a Serafino della Salandra (red Flavio Giacomantonio, 2009)
- Urban Encounters: Experience and Reprepresentation in the Early Modern City (red Per Sivefors 2013)
- Approaches to the text; from Pre-Gospel to Proto-Baroque (red Roy Eriksen og Peter Young, 2014)
- Hagiographic Adaptations, red Frid Forsgren og Tor Vegge (forthcoming 2018)
- Multiple Mediterranean, red. Brit Lyngstad, Sissel Lie og Geir Uvsløk (forthcoming 2018)
- The Mimesis of Change: Conversion and Peripety in Life Stories (red Sissel Lie og Roy Eriksen (forthcoming 2018))
Previous projects and programmes
- Tolerance and the City (10 international symposia (2004-13 and 6 volumes) – concluded.
- From Renovation to Reform. Completed. 4 PhDs; 3 essay collections (Kappa Editore, Rome and Novus, Oslo) and 2 monographs (Penn State UP and Mimesis, Milano).
- Lives (project leader Professor Tor Vegge). EMMS 10 (Eds Vegge and Forsgren; forthcoming)
- Mediterranean Modernism (EMMS 11 (Eds Lie, Lyngstad and Uvsløkk; forthcoming)
Ongoing projects
- Cultural Reformations 1 (project leaders Eriksen and O’Neill Tonning)
- The Mimesis of Change Conversion and Peripety in Life Stories (Lives 2; leader Tor Vegge), EMMS 13 (Eds. Eriksen and Lie; forthcoming)
Planned projects
Cultural Reformations 2 (Hymnology: Songs of Worship in Times of Conflict and reform (project leaders: Eriksen, Rolfhamre, Vegge)
Research collaboration
- London University (Kingston)
- University of Verona, University of Cosenza
- University of Marburg
- Université de Clermont-Ferrand
- University of Reading
- University of Padova
- Karlstad Universitet
Selected publications
Roy Eriksen
Monographs:
- The Forme of Faustus Fortunes (Humanities, 1987)
- The Building in the text (Penn State, 2001etc)
- L’Edificio testuale appeared in 2014 (Mimesis, Milano).
Edited collections:
- Pre-Novel Narrative (De Gruyter 1994),
- Basilike Eikon; Renaissance representations of the Prince (Kappa: Rome, 2001),
- Form and the Arts (Rome: Kappa, 2003),
- Ashes to Ashes (Rome: L’Ateneo, 2006),
- Imitation, Representation and Printing (Fabrizio Serra Editore 2009), (with Peter Young)
- Approaches to the Text: From Proto-Gospel to Post-Baroque (EMMS vol 9).
Charles I. Armstrong
Monographs:
- Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
- Figures of Memory: Poetry, Space, and the Past. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Reframing Yeats: Genre, Allusion and History. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Edited Essay Collections:
- Co-editor of Postcolonial Dislocations: Travel, History, and the Ironies of Narrative. Oslo: Novus, 2006.
- Co-editor of Crisis and Contemporary Poetry. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Co-editor of The Crossings of Art in Ireland. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014.
Oddvar Holmesland
Monographs:
- Utopian Negotiation: Aphra Behn and Margaret Cavendish (Syracuse University Press, 2013)
- Form as Compensation for Life: Fictive Patterns in Virginia Woolf’s Novels (Boydell & Brewer/Camden House, 1998)
- A Critical Introduction to Henry Green’s Novels: The Living Vision (Macmillan, 1986).
Medlemmer i gruppen
Deltakere
Assosierte medlemmer
- Professor Richard Wilson, London University (Kingston)
- Professor Anthony Johnson, Åbo Akademi
- Professor Paul Davies, University of Reading
- Professor David Herbert, University of London (Kingston)
- Professor Sonja Fielitz, Universität Marburg
- Professor Sophie Chiari, Clermont-Ferrand
- Professor Emeritus François Laroque, Sorbonne la nouvelle
- Associated Professor Per Sivefors, Linnaeus University
- Associated Professor Muriel Cunin (Limoges)
- Associated Professor Anna Swärdh, Karlstad Universitet
- Professor Erik Tonning (Bergen)
- First lecturer Christina Sandhaug, INN (Hamar)
- Associate Professor Svenn-Arve Myklebost (Volda)
- Dr Allan Folkestad, (International Office, UiA).