Lene M. Johannessen

Forskningsfelt:

• American literature and culture; American Studies
• Chicano studies
• Postcolonial studies
• Literature of/in migration

Literatures and theories of migration and cultural hybridity; aesthetic manifestations and negotiations of the ”in-between” and ”en-route.”

Prosjekt:

Book project:

• The Architectonics of Memory in Exile and Migration.

Book chapter:

• “Postcolonial Hybridities”

Project affiliations:

• Border Poetics Project (Research partner)
• The Role of Ugandian Folklore as Repository of Traditional Wisdom,Makerere-Bergen, NUFU, 2007-2011 (Research partner).
• Nordic Network of Literary Transcultural Studies (Coordinator)

Undervisningsaktivitet:

• American literatures and cultures, all levels
• Postcolonial literature and theory, 300 level
• Literatures "en route", 300 level

Utvalgte publikasjoner:

BOOKS:

• Performing community: Lene Johannessen/Stuart Sillars
• Threshold Time: Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature.Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2008.

• Considering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream. Berlin: LitVerlag, 2007. Co-edited and introduction with Kevin Cahill.

• Readings of the Particular: The Postcolonial in the Postnational. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2007. Co-edited and introduction with Anne Holden Rønning.

• To Become the Self One Is: A Critical Companion to Drude Krog Janson’s A Saloonkeeper’s Daughter. Oslo: Novus, 2005. Co-edited and introduction with Asbjørn Grønstad.

ARTICLES / ESSAYS:

• “De-Symbolization and the Cultural Act,” Border Poetics De-Limited. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag 2007: 163-176.

• “The Anatomy of Exile: David Malouf's An Imaginary Life and Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay,” Violence and Transgression in World Minority Literatures. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. 2005: 381-397.

• “’The insincere embrace:’ Canons and the Market,” American Studies in Scandinavia 2004: 36(2): 77-92.

• ”The Lonely Figure: Memory of Exile in Ana Menéndez' “In Cuba I was a German Shepherd.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 2005: 41(1): 54-68.

• ”The Appropriat(ed) Protagonist in Américo Paredes' George Washington Gómez,” Identities and Masks: Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. Kristiansand: Høyskoleforlaget 2001.

• Johannessen, Lene M.: ”The Squatter and the Don, Carry Me Like Water, and Under the Feet of Jesus: Readings of Crisis and Reconciliation,” U.S. Latino Literatures and Cultures: Transnational Perspectives. Heidelberg: C. Winter 2000.