Johanne Emilie Christensen

• Christensen, Johanne Emilie (2026). Trans childhood and coming-out in Hør Her’a. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  A brave feelgood film daring to raise important questions about growing up trans, and the potential for a happy ending through family and acceptance..

• Christensen, Johanne Emilie (2026). Are We Lost Forever? Queer representation in Norwegian-Swedish TV and films. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  “Are we lost forever?” the couple Hampus and Adrian ask each other in the 2020 film of the same name. Although they use the statement to question their relationship, the same question can be asked about the representation of queer characters in Norwegian and Swedish film and TV. Queer characters have been present in film and TV for a long time, but in the Norwegian and Swedish film and TV landscape it is still difficult to get an overview of where they are, and what queer representation looks like visually and contextually. In this presentation, I will discuss the preliminary results from my Ph.D. project in which I, among other things, map queer representation in general within Norwegian and Swedish feature films and fictional TV series between 1990 and 2025. I will explain methodological choices, and how I have chosen categories to capture queer representation. Finally, I will discuss what trends the mapping shows and how the findings illuminate questions related to cultural queer representation theoretically; and most importantly, what we can learn about the scope for queer cultural representation in a Norwegian/Swedish context.

• Christensen, Johanne Emilie (2026). Queer Domesticity in the Mainstream Imagination: Queer representation in film and on TV in Norway and Sweden. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The family plays an important role in Norwegian and Swedish mainstream comedy and crime film and TV, both in the plot and for the setting. As a part of my ph.d. project, focusing on the representation of queer parents in Norwegian and Swedish TV and film genres crime and comedy, I address the question of cultural recognition of queer parents in Norway and Sweden through the lens of mainstream culture. I am using genre to question queer parents’ opportunities within the most popular TV and film in Norway and Sweden, and how these representations can be understood in light of the notion of homotolerance, cultural recognition and chrononormativity. In this paper I will present a mapping of queer representation in Norwegian and Swedish film and TV between 1990 and 2025, to shed light on how "ordinary" the lives of queer parents can be in the mainstream imagination. The mapping is created by collecting data from blogs, IMDB-lists, and previous research. The findings are categorised by various tropes associated with queer representation in film and on TV. From this I am documenting the presence of queer characters and themes associated with queer lives in Norwegian and Swedish film and TV, to shed light on how queer parents and families are included/excluded from the mainstream notion of domesticity.

• Christensen, Johanne Emilie (2025). Ambiguous desire: A study of Norwegian journalists' use of the term "husmorporno". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Aurora, Federico; Christensen, Johanne Emilie & Rockenberger, Annika (2024). BærUt! Network and Skills Hub for Sustainable Digital Scholarly Editions at the University of Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rockenberger, Annika; Christensen, Johanne Emilie; Foldvik, Therese; Stauder, Andy; Kaukonen, Minna & Ólafsson, Bragi Þorgrímur [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2024). Collaborative Infrastructure as a Disruptive Force for Interdisciplinary Digital Scholarship, Illustrated by Use Cases of the Transkribus Stakeholder Platform. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rockenberger, Annika; Christensen, Johanne Emilie & Aurora, Federico (2024). 404 Not Found. Dire Straits and Safe Havens for Digital Scholarly Editions in Norway. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Christensen, Johanne Emilie (2024). Skeiv lesning av lesbisk erotikk. Blikk. ISSN 0803-141X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Christensen, Johanne Emilie (2024). Skeiv lesning av lesbisk erotikk. Kilden kjønnsforskning. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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