Academic interests
African American literature, Caribbean literature, Black British literature, postcolonial theory, World literature in English, modernism, theories of aesthetics, popular music, lyrics, the black radical tradition and intersectionality
Education
University of Oxford, DPhil in English, 2017
University of Oslo, MA in General and Comparative Literature, 2013
Research
Project Leader on the Research Council of Norway-funded project "Word, Sound and Power: The Lyrical Making of African Diaspora Futures" (01.07.2023 - 31.12. 2026)
Postdoctoral project: “The colour distinction: subversions of high and low culture in the Harlem Renaissance”, Literature Rights and Imagined Communities, University of Oslo
Doctoral dissertation (DPhil): "Critical Readings of Perceptual Models in the Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson: Bass Culture", University of Oxford
Teaching
University of Oslo
Senior Lecturer in General and Comparative Literature:
- LIT1303: Western Literature from 1900-present
- Exfac03-HUM: Humanities
- LIT 4380/4381: World Literature
- LIT4001: The History of Comparative Literature
Senior Lecturer in English Literature:
- ENG4391: Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
- ENG1303: British Literature
- ENG1304: American Literature
University of Oxford
- University of Oxford, Faculty of English: "The Harlem Renaissance" (Bachelor’s thesis)
- University of Oxford, Faculty of English: "Immigrant literature in London from the 1950s and 60s" (Bachelor’s Thesis)
- University of Oxford, Faculty of English and History (HENG): "Black Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance"
- University of Massachusetts Amherst: Oxford Summer Seminar: «Black British writers»
- Stanford University in Oxford Programme: "Caribbean and Black British women’s writing" and "Representations of Race in Britain"
Other
Member of Art Council Norway's Research and Development Committee