Lars Sætre

Art, Design, Form; Visual Culture. Urban Research Programme, Department of Aesthetics, Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences /

History of Arts, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (LLE), Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen.

PhD-project:

“Abject, Revolt, Poetry – A study of the ambivalence of trash in contemporary art”. – How is contemporary art involved in transforming notions of trash?

[“Abjekt, revolt, poesi – en undersøkelse av søppelets ambivalens i samtidskunsten”.– Hvordan bidrar samtidskunsten til å bevege begreper om søppel?]

With a Paper.

Title:

”Ryan Siegan Smith og Shane Munroe, The Cloud (2010)”

(In Norwegian, with English abstract)

Supervisors:

Prof. Siri Meyer, History of Arts, LLE, UiB;

Prof. Oddrun Sæter, Urban Research Programme, HiOA.

ANDERS M. Y. GULLESTAD

anders.gullestad@lle.uib.no

Comparative Literature. Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (LLE), Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen.

PhD-project:

“Herman Melville and the Fruits of Parasitism”.

With a Paper.

Title:

“Bartleby, the Anorexic Parasite”

(In English)

Supervisors:

Prof. Erik Bjerck Hagen, Comparative Literature, LLE, UiB;

Prof. Samuel Otter, English, UC Berkeley, USA.

ESPEN INGEBRIGTSEN

Espen.Ingebrigtsen@if.uib.no

Germanic Literary Studies. Department of Foreign Languages (IF), Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen.

PhD-project:

”Gedächtnisinszenierung in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsprosa. (Erinnerungsrepräsentation, Geschichtsbilder und Narration bei W. G. Sebald)”.

Supervisors:

Prof. Beatrice Sandberg, Germanic Literary Studies, IF, UiB;

Prof. Jakob Lothe, British Literary Studies, ILOS, UiO.

BO BYRKJELAND

bo.byrkjeland@if.uib.no

Spanish-American Literary and Cultural Studies. Department of Foreign Languages (IF), Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen.

PhD-project:

”Latinamerican Self-Translation: An historical perspective, and readings of María Luisa Bombal and Rosario Ferré”.

Supervisors:

Prof. Gisle Selnes, Comparative Literature, LLE, UiB;

Assist. Prof. Jon Askeland, Spanish-American Literary and Cultural Studies, IF, UiB.

LIV BENTE BELSNES

Liv-Bente.Belsnes@hioa.no

Architecture, art and cultural studies. – Does research within the inter-disciplinary Urban Research Programme (Storbyprogrammet) at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (HiOA). Is enrolled into the PhD-programme at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stavanger (UiS).

PhD-project:

”From Nature to Culture: Ekeberg landscape park of sculptures and cultural memories”. On the formation of public urban spaces through capital investment. A study of the park’s art works in relation to the transformation of Oslo’s Ekeberg area. Addresses urban politics, the cognition of landscape (including history) and aesthetics.

[”Fra natur til kultur: Ekeberg skulptur- og kulturminnepark”. Om kapitalens forming av offentlige urbane rom. En studie av verkene i parken med henblikk på transformasjonen av Ekebergområdet. Knytter an til bypolitikk, landskapsforståelse (inkl. historikk) og estetikk.]

Supervisor:

Associate Prof. Lise Nordenborg Myhre, Dept. of Media, Cultural and Social Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, UiS.

KJERSTI AARSTEIN

kjersti.aarstein@lle.uib.no

Comparative Literature. Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (LLE), Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen.

PhD-project:

“Self-Representation and Strategies for Truth in Contemporary Norwegian Literature, with a special focus on Tove Nilsen’s and Karl Ove Knausgaard’s œuvres”.

[“Selvfremstilling og sannhetsstrategier i norsk samtidslitteratur, med særlig henblikk på Tove Nilsens og Karl Ove Knausgaards forfatterskap”.

Supervisors:

Prof. Gisle Selnes, Comparative Literature, LLE, UiB;

Associate Prof. Christine Hamm, Scandinavian Literary Studies, LLE, UiB.

LISBET SKREGELID

lisbet.skregelid@uia.no

Art didactics. Studying junior high school students’ efforts at sense making when meeting contemporary art under relational art didactic principles.

Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Agder (UiA). – Is enrolled into the PhD-programme at the Department of Educational Research, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo (UiO).

PhD-project:

”Art Experiences and Nightmares: On potentials and challenges in including controversial contemporary art in schools”.

[“Når kunstopplevelser fører til mareritt: Om potensialer og utfordringer med å inkludere kontroversiell samtidskunst i skolen”.]

Supervisors:

Prof. Ola Stafseng, UiO;

Associate Prof. Venke Aure, HiOA;

Prof. Helene Illeris, UiA.

MERETE ELNAN

merete.elnan@uia.no

Theatre Studies, Dramaturgy. Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Agder (UiA).

Associated with the PhD-programme at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim.

PhD-project:

”Reflections on the Images of Childhood and the Notion of Understanding in the Theatre of Suzanne Osten and Unga Klara”.

Supervisors:

Prof. Bjørn Rasmussen, NTNU;

Associate Prof. Faith Gabrielle Guss, HiOA.

ANNETT BRANDANGER

annett.brandanger@student.uib.no

History of Arts. Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (LLE), Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen.

Master degree student.

Supervisor:

Prof. Siri Meyer, LLE, UiB.

ANNA HEERMANN

anna.heermann@if.uib.no

Germanic Literary Studies. Department of Foreign Languages (IF), Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen.

PhD-project:

”Negotiating ‘Heimat’ in the Works of Herta Müller and Franz Innerhofer”.

[“Neuverhandlung des Heimatbegriffes in den Werken Herta Müllers und Franz Innerhofers”.]

With a Paper.

Title:

”Negotiating Heimat in the Works of Herta Müller and Franz Innerhofer” (outline)

(In English)

Supervisor:

Prof. Sissel Lægreid, IF, UiB.

KRISTOFFER JUL-LARSEN

kristoffer.jul-larsen@ntnu.no

Scandinavian Literary Studies. Dept. of Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim.

PhD-project:

”Literary Criticism on Norwegian Radio; an historical account of the meeting of literature and literary criticism with broadcasting throughout the 20th century – a rhetorical, sociological and institutional analysis of the historical development of criticism through this encounter”.

Part of the national research project The History of Literary Critical Reception in Norway, 1870-2000 – Value-Judgments and Mediation.

[”Litteraturkritikk i norsk radio; en historisk fremstilling av litteraturens og litteraturkritikkens møte med radiomediet i Norge gjennom det 20. århundre – en retorisk, sosiologisk og institusjonsbevisst analyse av den historiske utviklingen kritikken går igjennom i møte med mediet”.

Del av det nasjonale prosjektet Norsk litteraturkritikks historie 1870-2000 – Verdiforvaltning og mediering.]

With a Paper.

Title:

“The Distribution of the Audible –Authority and voice”

(In English)

Supervisor:

Prof. Sissel Furuseth, NTNU.

NORA VAAGE

nora.vaage@svt.uib.no

Theory of Science and Scholarship; History of Arts. Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT), University of Bergen.

PhD-project:

“Collaborations at the Outskirts of Art”.