Contributors
Jørgen Alnæs is literature- and theatre critic and teaches Journalism and Media and Communication at Oslo University College. His first book, I eventyret. Norske reiseskildringer fra Astrup til Aasheim, about Norwegian travel- and expedition- literature, was published in May 2008. E-mail: jorgen.alnaes@
online.no
Susan Birkwood teaches Canadian literature and nineteeth-century British literature at Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada). Her research interests include late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century exploration and travel literature whose focus is Canada, along with historical fiction that offers a revisionist view of Canada's colonial past. E-mail: [email protected]
Annie Bourguignon is professor at the Institute of Scandinavian Studies at the University Nancy 2 (France). Her main fields of research are Swedish literature, non-fiction literature and comparative literature. She has published Der Schriftsteller Peter Weiss und Schweden (1997) and Le reportage d’écrivain: Etude d’un phénomène littéraire à partir de textes suédois et d’autres textes scandinaves (2004) and a number of articles.
E-mail: [email protected]
Lill Tove Fredriksen is from Porsanger in Finnmark county, Northern Norway. She is assistant professor in Sámi literature at the Faculty of Humanities, the University Tromsø, Norway. Her field of research is oral traditions with emphasis on sea-sámi song tradition. Her current research topic is about coping strategies in a small Sámi community, the way this is depicted in the novel trilogy Árbbolaččat written by the Sámi author Jovnna-Ánde Vest.
Sabine Frost studied General and Comparative Literature at Erfurt University, Germany. She currently works in Berlin on her PhD- thesis entitled "Whiteout. Snow and Whiteness in Literature since 1800". E-mail: [email protected]
Polly Gould is a writer and artist based in London. She makes works with drawing, sound, video and performance. Her work is concerned with landscape and mourning, and our relationships as speaking subjects exploring questions of voice, power and desire, and presented in a live form as performance lectures. Gould lectures in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and Wimbledon College of Art. E-mail: pollyegould@
yahoo.co.uk
Clauda Gremler studied English, German and Scandinavian studies at Göttingen and Odense, completed her phd at Göttingen in 2001 with a thesis on the literary relationship between Thomas Mann and Herman Bang which was published as a monograph in 2003. She has published articles on contemporary German literature, on Scandinavian authors and on film. She is currently working on a project on representations of the north in literature and film, focussing mainly on works in German and English.
Since 2004 she has been working and teaching as lecturer in German at Aston University in Birmingham. E-mail: c.gremler@
aston.ac.uk
Nina Hinrichs received her state examination in Arts, German literature and Mathematics in the year 2006. Now she is holder of a scholarship and is PhD Student at the ”Centre for Postgraduate Studies“ at the University of Kiel, called “Imaginatio borealis”.
Subject of her dissertation is the reception of the German Artist Caspar David Friedrich in the 19th century and in National Socia-
lism. In this context she focuses on Northern Discourses. E-mail:
Hanna Maria Hofmann studied Visual Communication at the University of Arts Berlin, and is currently finishing a Master degree in Modern German Literature, Comparative Literature and Philosophy (Technical University Berlin). She also worked and taught in the Department for German Literature at the Technical University from 2003 to 2007. Hofmann recently handed in her Master’s thesis which deals with Arctic Discourses in literary fiction with a focus on Edgar Allan Poe, Georg Heym and Alfred Döblin. The subject matter of her thesis work lay the foundation for her lecture about Polar fantasies in Tromsö. E-mail:
Ingeborg Høvik, a PhD student in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK), is currently working on a thesis entitled Images of the Arctic 1823-1904: Problems of Represen- tation and Imperialism. From 1999-2005 she studied at the University of Tromsø. In 2008 Ingeborg is a Caird Short-term Research Fellow at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (UK). Email: [email protected]
Tiffany Johnstone is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of British Columbia in the area of American women's travel writing set in the northern regions of Canada at the turn of the twentieth century. She studies how such writing reworked dominant literary and cultural conceptions of the self within mainstream American wilderness literature. E-mail:
Silje Solheim Karlsen. Research fellow in the project Arctic Discourses, at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Tromsø.
E-mail: [email protected]
Elizaveta Khachaturyan is Associate Professor of Italian Language at the University of Oslo. Her research (based on the contrastive description of Italian, French and Russian) deals with the analysis of the discourse, in particularly with discourse strategies and the semantics of discourse markers. Recently she started also a research on Italian Arctic explorers speaking about the North: how to speak about the surrounding world. E-mail: elizaveta.
Nils Magne Knutsen is associate professor of Scandinavian literature at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Tromsø. His research fields are Arctic literature and northern Norwegian literature and culture, Knut Hamsun and Petter Dass. Last published books: La Recherche. En ekspedisjon mot nord/La Recherche. Une expédition vers le Nord (published in Norwegian and French, 2002) and Knut Hamsun og Nordland. Den lange veien hjem (2006). E-mail: [email protected]
Sanne Kok holds a masters degree in Educational Studies and Cultural Encounters from Roskilde University, Denmark. She has previously worked in Greenland and taught at Roskilde University. She has a particular interest in South Africa, Greenland and indigenous peoples and is a member of the editorial board at the Nordic postcolonial magazine 'KULT-Forum for overløbere'. Today, she works at the Council for Social Voluntary Work in Copenhagen. E-mail: [email protected]
Leif Longva. Academic Librarian, University of Tromsø Library.
Project Manager of Munin, the Institutional Repository at The University of Tromsø (<http://uit.no/munin>http://uit.no/munin).
M.Sc. Fisheries, University of Tromsø (1985). M.A. Economics, Simon Fraser University (1992). E-mail: [email protected]
Jérémie Michael McGowan is an AHRC Doctoral Award holder in History of Art at The University of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK), where he is completing work on a PhD thesis entitled Cowboys and Indians: Architectures of Encounter, 1956-1976. Jérémie was previously a Fulbright Grantee (2001-2002) in Creative and Performing Arts / Design at the Giellagas Institute, University of Oulu (Finland). From August 2008 he will be Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen (Scotland, UK). E-mail: [email protected]
Reinhard Mook, PhD in geophysics and meteorology from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, affiliated with the University of Tromsø, Norway, since 1972 (climate and demography), is now an independent consultant and researcher in applied meteorology. E- mail: [email protected]
Lennart Pettersson is Associate Professor in History and Theory of Art. He is currently working at the Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umeå University and at the Department of Art History and Visual Studies, Gothenburg University. His research in the field of Northern Studies concerns the usage of illustrations in travel books. In Umeå he is a member of the steering committee of the multidisciplinary research programme “Foreign North:
Outside perspectives on the Nordic North”. He is also involved in the work of forming Northern Studies at Umeå University. E-mail:
Paola Gheri, an associate professor at the University of Salerno, has a significant background in German and Austrian literature, having specialised in this area for several years. A doctorate in German literature, she has published literary publiccations («Der Wahrheit geben, was der Wahrheit ist». Gli inizi poetici di Georg Trakl, Pisa, ETS, 1999; P. Gheri – L. Perrone Capano, Testi in dialogo. Forme di intertestualità nel Novecento tedesco, Pisa, ETS, 2002) and numerous articles in literary journals to include:
Trakl, Rilke, Hofmannsthal, Handke, Christa Wolf and Christoph Ransmayr. E-mail: [email protected]
Christina Sawchuk is a doctoral student at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, England. Her dissertation research concerns cultures of exploration in the early twentieth-century Canadian North. E- mail: cms67@hermes.
cam.ac.uk
Anne-Kari Skarðhamar, dr.art. is an associate professor at Oslo University College, Faculty of Education and International Studies. She has published several books on Faroese literature and on teaching literature, articles on children’s literature and on literary representations of childhood. E-mail: AnneKari.
Sigrid Solhaug will finish her MA in English literature at the University of Tromsø in Spring 2008. Her thesis is on two novels by South African writer and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. E-mail:
Janna Swales studies circumpolar history with the University of the Arctic through Yukon College, Yukon; University of Tromsø, Norway; and University of Northern BC, British Columbia. Her focussed interest lies within the developed and developing relationships between stories - people - place, and their resulting
interactions, power exchanges, and shifts. E-mail: errantjanna@
gmail.com
Cathrine Theodorsen is a postdoctoral scholar, affiliated to the project Arctic Discourses at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Tromsø. Her main research interests are Austrian literature (Wiener Moderne, Elfriede Jelinek) and 19th-century German travel writing (Theodor Mügge). Her doctor thesis (”Leopold Andrian, seine Erzählung Der Garten der Erkenntnis und der Dilettantismus in Wien um 1900”) was published 2006. E-mail:
Margherita d'Ayala Valva, Dr. Art. Studies in Florence (M.A.) and in the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (PhD). Research fields:
italian art critics and collectionism from the fin-de-siècle to the Futurism, with a particular focus on literary forms such as artists' aphorisms and manifesto writing; XXth century artists as readers of early modern treatises; Scandinavian artists at the Venice Biennali from 1895 to 1911. E-mail: [email protected] Leila Werthschulte, Dr. phil., studied German literature, Medieval Studies and Theoretical Linguistics in Sarajevo, Vienna, and Munich. She currently teaches German Medieval Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. Her research encompasses medieval historiography, relations between text and image, Germanic mythology, old and new literature on and from the North. In 2007, her book "Heinrich der Löwe in Geschichte und Sage" was published. Email: leila.Werthschulte@
germanistik.uni-muenchen.de
Henning Howlid Wærp is professor of Scandinavian literature at Faculty of Humanities, University of Tromsø. He has published a book on the Norwegian novelist Sigbjørn Hølmebakk (Innenfor og
1997) and a book on the prose poem (Prosadiktet i Norge, 2002;
ed.). He has also edited four books on Knut Hamsun´s authorship (Hamsun-selskapet 1999, 2003, 2006 & 2008) and a book on Cora Sandel (De upåaktede liv, 2005). He is editor of the literary journal Edda. E-mail: [email protected]
