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Karen Gammelgaard

Professor of Czech. Head of Research
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Phone +47 22 85 67 95
Room NT 1114
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Visiting address Niels Treschows hus 10th floor Niels Henrik Abels vei 36
Postal address ILOS P.O.Box 1003 Blindern 0315 Oslo Norway

Fields of expertise

Czech language, literature, and culture. Prague school semiotics. Nationhood studies. Corpus-assisted discourse analysis. Slavic standard languages. Standard language theory. Diglossia. Discourse in totalitarian states. Language policy. Discourse analysis.

Completed Research Projects (at ILOS)

Konstituerende tekster in KULTRANS, including the project Textualizing Democracy
Red-Letter Days in Transition
The Upheaval in Czech Textual Culture 1948-1953 (on Stalinist text culture)

Other

Member of:

  • The Independent International Review Panel for the HERA Joint Research Programme “Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe”, 2017–2021
  • The Specialist Board (philology) for PhD-studies, Charles University, Prague, 2015–
  • The Programme Committee, Research Cooperation Programme Norway-Estonia (The EEA and Norway Grants finance reseach Collaboration), 2013–2017
  • The Expert Committee of Humanities (FRIHUM), Research Council of Norway, 2010–2013

Internal reviewer, political magazine Respekt, Prague, 1990–1991

Academic positions

2025- Head of Research, ILOS, UiO

2013–2020: Head of Department, ILOS, UiO

2005–2008: Head of Research and Deputy Head of Department, ILOS, UiO

2003– Professor of Czech,  Dept. of East European and Oriental Studies, UiO, from 2005 Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS), UiO

1996–2005: Associate Professor, Czech, Dept. of East European and Oriental Studies, UiO

1992–1996: Associate Professor (in training), Czech, Dept. of East European and Oriental Studies, UiO

1991–1992: Substitute Associate Professor, Czech. Slavic and Baltic Department, UiO

1986–1991: Peripatetic teacher, Danish, Dept. of Nordic Studies, Charles University, Prague

Education

2007–2008: Research Leadership Program, University of Oslo (UiO)

1995: Dr. art, UiO

1978–1985: MA Slavic studies (major in Czech, minor in Serbo-Croatian, additional courses in Russian, Slovak, and Soviet Studies), Aarhus University (Denmark), Charles University Prague (Czechoslovakia), and Belgrade University (Yugoslavia)

Tags: Czech, Slavic and East European Studies, Central Europe, Semiotics, Discourse analysis, Standard languages, Czech literature, Czech Republic

Publications

  • Gammelgaard, Karen (2023). Normeringen av ukrainsk i det selvstendige Ukraina. Nordisk Østforum. ISSN 0801-7220. 37, p. 156–179. doi: 10.23865/noros.v37.5605. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelgaard, Karen (2022). Språkpolitikk i Slovakia og Tsjekkia etter 1993. Nordisk Østforum. ISSN 0801-7220. 36, p. 63–81. doi: 10.23865/noros.v36.3558. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelgaard, Karen (2014). The Czechs' perceptions of the Nordic countries: A corpus-based study. In Petkevič, Vladimír; Adamovičová, Anna & Cvrček, Václav (Ed.), Radost z jazyků. Sborník příspěvků k 75. narozeninám prof. Františka Čermáka. Nakladatelství Lidové noviny. ISSN 9788074223617. p. 304–313. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelgaard, Karen (2014). Constitution as a Transnational Genre: Norway 1814 and the Habsburg Empire 1848–1849. In Gammelgaard, Karen & Holmøyvik, Eirik (Ed.), Writing Democracy. The Norwegian Constitution 1814 - 2014. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781782385042. p. 92–107. Full text in Research Archive
  • Holmøyvik, Eirik & Gammelgaard, Karen (2014). The Norwegian constitution as a text. In Gammelgaard, Karen & Holmøyvik, Eirik (Ed.), Writing Democracy. The Norwegian Constitution 1814 - 2014. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781782385042. p. 1–17. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelgaard, Karen (2013). Totalitarian self-designation: the case of jednota in the Czech totalitarian register 1948–1953. Hildesheimer Schriften zur Interkulturellen Kommunikation. ISSN 1868-372X. 5, p. 49–67. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelgaard, Karen & Saric, Ljiljana (2012). Discursive construction of national holidays in West and South Slavic countries after the fall of communism: Introductory thoughts. In Saric, Ljiljana; Gammelgaard, Karen & Hauge, Kjetil Rå (Ed.), Transforming National Holidays: Identity Discourse in the West and South Slavic Countries, 1985-2010. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027206381. doi: 10.1075/dapsac.47.04gam. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelgaard, Karen (2012). The Czech and Czechoslovak 28 October: Stability and change in four presidential addresses 1988–2008. In Saric, Ljiljana; Gammelgaard, Karen & Hauge, Kjetil Rå (Ed.), Transforming National Holidays: Identity Discourse in the West and South Slavic Countries, 1985-2010. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027206381. p. 231–250. doi: 10.1075/dapsac.47.15gam. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelgaard, Karen (2012). Czech code mixing 1990–2010: From domain specialization toward graded registers. In Mejdell, Gunvor & Edzard, Lutz (Ed.), High vs. Low and Mixed Varieties. Domains, Status, and Function across Time and Languages. Harrassowitz Verlag. ISSN 9783447066969. p. 179–196. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelgaard, Karen (2011). Intervju, Miroslav Červenka. Smysl i stich. Trudy po poetike. Jazyki slavjanskoj kultury. ISSN 9785955104737. p. 403–436. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelgaard, Karen (2011). The Discursive Battle in 1988 over the Czechoslovak State Holiday 28 October. Scando-Slavica. ISSN 0080-6765. 57(1), p. 48–67. doi: 10.1080/00806765.2011.569116. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelgaard, Karen (2010). Were the Czechs more Western than Slavic? Nineteenth-Century Travel Literature from Russia by Disillusioned Czechs. In Péteri, György (Eds.), Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISSN 9780822961253. p. 13–35. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelgaard, Karen (2010). Czech Classified Advertising under Stalinism: Transformation of a Genre. Slavonica. ISSN 1361-7427. 16(2), p. 79–95. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelgaard, Karen & Hedin, Tora (2008). Fremvæksten af den tjekkiske totalitære diskurs 1948-1953: Sovjetisering med forhindringer. In Lunde, Ingunn & Witt, Susanna (Ed.), Terminal Øst. Totalitære og posttotalitære diskurser. Spartacus. ISSN 9788230400340. p. 150–168. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelgaard, Karen (2008). Coping with Stalinist Panegyrics: a semantic and pragmatic analysis of a Czech text. Journal of Historical Pragmatics. ISSN 1566-5852. 9(1), p. 48–70. doi: 10.1075/jhp.9.1.04gam. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelgaard, Karen (2006). Jeste k ankete o strukturalismu. Slovo a smysl - časopis pro mezioborová bohemistická a teoretická. ISSN 1214-7915. p. 327–329. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelgaard, Karen (2006). Kánon - literární, nebo textový? In Fedrova, Stanislava (Eds.), Otázky českého kánonu. Ustav pro ceskou literaturu. ISSN 9788085778519. p. 26–35. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Gammelgaard, Karen (2026). Eva Jourová – Store norske leksikon. Store Norske Leksikon (snl.no). Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelgaard, Karen (2025). Språkpolitikk i den slaviske verden. Fra 1989 til i dag. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN 9788202854379. 288 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gammelgaard, Karen & Holmøyvik, Eirik (2014). Writing Democracy. The Norwegian Constitution 1814 - 2014. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781782385042. 280 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Saric, Ljiljana; Gammelgaard, Karen & Hauge, Kjetil Rå (2012). Transforming National Holidays: Identity Discourse in the West and South Slavic Countries, 1985-2010. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 9789027206381. 300 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Glanc, Tomáš; Postoutenko, Kiril & Gammelgaard, Karen (2011). Miroslav Červenka. Smysl i stich. Trudy po poetike. Jazyki slavjanskoj kultury. ISBN 9785955104737. 463 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Asdal, Kristin; Berge, Kjell Lars; Gammelgaard, Karen; Gundersen, Trygve Riiser; Jordheim, Helge & Rem, Tore [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2008). Tekst og historie. Å lese tekster historisk. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215012506. 326 p. Full text in Research Archive

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