Two new PhD candidates at the Centre for Ibsen Studies

Madelen Brovold and Heidi Karlsen have recently started as PhD candidates at the Centre for Ibsen Studies. They are both connected to the research project "Data-Mining the Digital Bookshelf".

Madelen Brovold. (Photo: Olaf Christensen)

Madelen Brovold:

Madelen Brovold has a background in Scandinavian studies and history from the University of Oslo. She is going to research written perceptions of jews in Norwegian public life in the nineteenth century. She has previously worked as a research assistant at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies and as a teacher in upper secondary school.

What are you going to research?

- My research project is a continuation on, or an expansion of, my Master's thesis, which was about the representation of jews in four Norwegian dramas from the period between 1825 and 1852. The main goal is to research written perceptions of jews in Norwegian public life in the nineteenth century. My research is part of the project "Data-Mining the Digital Bookshelf", explains Madelen.

 

Heidi Karlsen:

Heidi has a Master's degree in French literature and a major in philosophy, both from the University of Oslo. In her Master's degree she primarily worked with French literature from the nineteenth and twentieth century, focusing on topics like reception studies, feminist literary criticism and Gilles Deleuze's thoughts on modern literature's effect on the reader. In her philosophy studies, Heidi worked with topics like power and discourse analysis. She has also studied French and Spanish, lived in France and Spain, and worked as a teacher and research assistant.

Heidi Karlsen (Photo: private)

What are you going to research?

- As a PhD candidate connected to the project "Data-Mining the Digital Bookshelf", I will research how the reception of female authors in the nineteenth century contributed to the changes in gendered discourse in Norway. I will investigate popular discourse on gender from the mid-nineteenth century, and track changes in discourse related to women's "place" in Norwegian society up until 1913, when women gained the right to vote. The main goal of the project is to obtain knowledge about which female authors actually contributed to these changes, what kind of changes they were, and how they contributed through their reception in society, Heidi explains.

Tags: Digital Humanities, Reception Studies, Scandinavian literature, Antisemittisme, Feministisk teori By Olaf Christensen, Torhild Aas
Published Mar. 29, 2017 9:02 AM - Last modified May 27, 2022 1:52 PM