Bianca Patria

Postdoctoral Fellow - Lingvistiske og nordiske studier

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Email bianca.patria@iln.uio.no

Room Henrik Wergelands hus 323

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Visiting address Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 Henrik Wergelands hus 0313 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1102 Blindern 0317 Oslo

Other affiliations Institutt for pedagogikk (Student)

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Academic interests

Old Norse literature, specifically skaldic poetry and the related poetological and grammatical traditions. Rhetoric and semiotics, intertextuality.

Teaching

NFI2240 – Norrøn poesi og juridiske tekster (spring 2021)

NFI4112 – Scaldic Poetry and Grammatical literature (autumn 2020)

PhD Project

PhD project: "Heiti’s semantics. Lexical Analysis as an Investigative Tool for Expressive and Compositional Strategies in Skaldic Stanzas"

PhD thesis: Kenning Variation and Lexical Selection in Early Skaldic Verse (Universitet i Oslo: 2021).

Background

Both Bachelor (2014) and Master (2016) degrees were obtained at the University of Pisa, Department of Literature, Linguistics and Philology, with a curriculum based on theoretical and historical Linguistics, Indo-European studies and philology. The topic of the MA thesis was the semantics of skaldic poetic synonyms(heiti).