Members

Border Poetics/Border Culture research group

The Border Poetics research group, now the Border Poetics/Border Culture research group at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway, was started by Stephen Wolfe and Johan Schimanski in 2004. The group works with borders within the framework of literary studies and other aesthetic disciplines and provbide a cross-disciplinary platform for border studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. It cooperates with the Russian Space (RSCPR) research group at the same faculty.

Research partners and projects

The group has a network of research partners in Kirkenes, Bergen, Joensuu, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Ljubljana, Århus, Vienna, Zürich, Düsseldorf, Nijmegen, London, Glamorgan, Ithaca (Cornell University), Sydney, Zagreb, Amsterdam, Roskilde, Potchefstroom, Bergamo, the Negev, Madrid, Grenoble, St. Petersburg, Barcelona and Oslo.

The group has had responsibility for two projects with international partners, the Border Aesthetics Project and the "Cultural Production and Borders" Work Package within the EUBORDERSCAPES project. It has strong ties with the Barents Institute (BAI) and cooperates with or has previously cooperated with:

Parks, Justin Michael

Academic Programme Director for English Literature (one year programme, BA, MA and Teacher Education)
Department of Language and Culture
Campus Tromsø


Gerd Karin Bjørhovde

Professor emerita engelsk litteraturvitenskap

Espiritu, Aileen Aseron

Forsker
The Barents Institute
Kirkenes
+4778450556

Cassandra Falke

Professor in English literature
Department of Language and Culture
Campus Tromsø

+4777645726
+4791154016

Fors, Bjarge Schwenke

The Barents Institute
+4777646616
41478387

Brynhild Granås

Førsteamanuensis
Department of Social Sciences
Campus Alta


Gustafsson, Henrik Isak Immanuel

Professor Media- and Documentation Science
Department of Language and Culture
Campus Tromsø


Ruben Moi

Professor in English Literature and Culture
Department of Language and Culture
Campus Tromsø


Holger Pötzsch

Professor Media- and Documentation Studies
Department of Language and Culture
Campus Tromsø


Rogatchevski, Andrei

Professor Russian Literature
Department of Language and Culture
Campus Tromsø


Yngvar B. Steinholt

Associate Professor in East-Slavonic Culture and Literature.
Department of Language and Culture
Campus Tromsø


Tevlina, Victoria

The Barents Institute
Kirkenes
+4778450551

Urban Wråkberg

Professor
Campus Kirkenes

Kirkenes
+4778450588

Niemi, Minna Johanna

Associate Professor English Literature
Department of Language and Culture
Campus Tromsø


Visiting researchers:

In September-November 2010, the group hosted postdoc researcher Mari Ristolainen of the Writing Cultures and Traditions at Borders research project, the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. She was a participant in the Border Aesthetics project.

In April 2010, the group hosted Associate Professor of American Studies Camelia Elias from Roskilde University, working on the book project In Cite: Epistemologies of Creative Writing.

For January-April 2006, group co-organizer Johan Schimanski was a Visiting Professor of Border Studies at the Centre for Border Studies, Glamorgan University.

For the month of November 2005, the group hosted a visiting researcher, Carl Klintborg from the University of Växjö, working on a postgraduate project on historiography and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost.

Previous group members:

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The Border Poetics / Border Culture research group at the Faculty for Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Participates in the projects Border Aesthetics and EUBORDERSCAPES.