Academic Interests
Comparative literature, history of the novel, letters, urban literature, realism and modernism, hermeneutics, emotions. Selected writers: Karen Blixen, Virginia Woolf, Camilla Collett, Charles Dickens, George Eliot.
Higher education, employment history etc.
- Dr.art from University of Oslo (1996)
- Research Associate Darwin College, Cambridge (1985-86), Lektor in Norwegian University College London (1988-91), Associate Professor/Professor University of Tromsø (1996-2004), Visiting professor/teaching position Scand. dept., UC Berkeley spring 2006, from 2004 professor University of Oslo
- Member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- Member of jury for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize