Aasta Marie Bjorvand Bjørkøy

Academic interests

• Textual criticism and book history
• time and space
• short stories
• picturebooks
• children's literature
• old age narratives
• modernism
• Impressionism
• Shared Reading and Creative Writing


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Ongoing research

• Part of the RCN-project Literary Citizens of the World (SAMKUL 2016-2020, headed by Aina Nøding, National Library): https://nbdcms.nb.no/index.php/forskning/litcit-norsk/. Arbeider med resirkulering av barnelitteratur i perioden 1790--1850.
• Norwegian short stories
• Depiction of old age in contemporary Norwegian literature

Teaching

• NOR1302 Nordisk barne- og ungdomslitteratur 1, H2014, H2017, H2018, H2019 http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iln/NOR1302/
• NOR2310/NOR4310 Nordisk barne- og ungdomslitteratur 2, V2015, V2016, V2018, V2020 http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iln/NOR2310/index.html
• NOR1300 Nordisk, særlig norsk, litteratur 1800--2000, H2014, H2017, V2018, H2020: http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iln/NOR1300/index.html
• NOR2440 Sjangerstudium i nordisk litteratur B, V2015 og V2016: Norske noveller 1880--2014, http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iln/NOR2440/index.html
• NOR2311 Nordisk samtidslitteratur, H2014, H2019 http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iln/NOR2311/index.html
• NOR4460 Nordisk motiv- og temastudium, V2020 Krig og litteratur: https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iln/NOR4460/
• NOR4340 Sjangerstudium i nordisk litteratur C, V2015, H2015: En bok för alla? http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iln/NOR4340/index.html

Backgrund

• Ph.d., The Work in the Grapewine (2015).
• Associate Professor at Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, UiO 2017, professor since 2020.
• Head of Research, ILN 2019–2020
• Associate Professor at the University Colleg of Southeast-Norway 2016--2017.
• Henrik Ibsens skrifter 2004--2010 (www.ibsen.uio.no)
• Member of  the Board of Norwegian Language and Literature Association, drifting bokselskap.no: http://www.bokselskap.no/hjelp_om/nsl
• Member of  the board of Nordisk nettverk for edisjonsfilologer: http://www.nnedit.org/
• Leader of Work package 1 Education, Religion and Literacy. Tracing the Transnational crossroads of books in Early Modern Norway, RCN-project Literary Citizens of the World (SAMKUL 2016-2020, headed by Aina Nøding, National Library): https://nbdcms.nb.no/index.php/forskning/litcit-norsk/

Network

• Member of Nordisk nettverk for edisjonsfilologer (since 2004)
• Member of Norwegian Language and Literature Association (since 2005)
• The Research Project After Honor (since 2015): http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/forskning/prosjekter/etter-ere/
• The Research Project Literary Citizens of the World. Tracing the Transnational crossroads of books in Early Modern Norway (since 2016)
• The Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN) since 2017
• Del av nettverket NO-Age: https://noage100.com (siden 2018)
• Member of Nordic Network for Narratives in Medicine (since 2020)
• Board member of NORLA (Norwegian Literature Abroad) (since 2020)