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Guro Flinterud

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Norwegian
Phone +47-22844879
Room 437 PAM
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Visiting address P. A. Munchs hus Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 0371 OSLO
Postal address Postboks 1010 Blindern 0315 OSLO

Background

MA in Cultural History from 2007 with the MA thesis Please Help the Cause Against Loneliness: The Importance of Being a Morrissey Fan

Special fields

Fan culture, celebrity culture, human-animal relations

Ongoing and planned research projects at IKOS

Ph.D research fellow within the project Animals as Objects and Animals as Signs– Standardisation and Visualization of Animals .
I am currently working on a dissertation called Animal Celebrities, with an emphasis on Polar Bear Knut at the Berlin Zoo.

Tags: Cultural history, Nature and the natural

Publications

2009: "En helt spesiell kjærlighet. Morrissey og ensomhet" i: Kulturella perspektiv nr 3-4 2009

  • Flinterud, Guro (2012). Living “With” a Polar Bear: Creative Continuity in Tradition and Human-animal Relations.
  • Flinterud, Guro (2011). Remembering the Polar Bears.
  • Flinterud, Guro (2010). A Polar Bear in Cyperspace: The Zoo, The Arctic and Knut's Blog.
  • Flinterud, Guro (2010). Polar Bear Knut and his Fans.
Published Jun 24, 2010 01:00 PM - Last modified Aug 4, 2011 03:43 PM