Yngvar B. Steinholt


Associate Professor in East-Slavonic Culture and Literature.


  • Bjarge Schwenke Fors, Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Challenging Boundaries from Below: Cross-Border Culture in the Arctic
    Routledge 2022 DOI
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Egor Letov
    The Literary Encyclopedia 2022 FULLTEKST / ARKIV
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    The Vertical Inverted? Dirt Aesthetics in Russian Conceptualist and Protest Art
    Bloomsbury Academic 2022 FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Andrei Rogatchevski, Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Leonid Andreev’s Krasnyi smekh: Four Locations of Collective and Individual Mental Illness
    Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    V krai razdroblennykh otkrovenii: Stikhotvorenie Ianki Diagilevoi, DSM-IV i sobaki Seligmana.
    Russkaia Rok-Poèziia 2018 FULLTEKST
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Cats, punk, arson and new media: Art activism in Russia 2007-2015
    Routledge 2018 DOI
  • Arve Hansen, Andrei Rogatchevski, Yngvar B. Steinholt, David-Emil Wickström :
    A War of Songs: Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations
    Ibidem-Verlag 2019
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Presenting the research group "Russian Space? RSCPR"
    2023
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt, August Hansen :
    Intervju om nytt begynnerkurs i ukrainsk ved UiT – Norges arktiske universitet
    27. April 2023
  • Joar Hystad, Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Nytt begynner­kurs i ukrainsk ved UiT
    23. May 2023 FULLTEKST
  • Yngvar Bordewich Steinholt :
    We’re Going Nowhere: Late-Soviet cultural strategies and the contemporary Russian musical underground
    2023
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Det Russland sier, er like farlig som meningsløst
    Bergens Tidende, Debattsider 25. August 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Arrested Development: Music, Social, Anthems, and post-Lukashenkian Belarus
    2022
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt, Andrei Rogatchevski :
    Svalbard Studies: Coal Mining in the Russo-Norwegian Context
    Poljarnyj vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Beboteu-vevyat! Making sense of Velimir Khlebnikov's birds
    2022
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Harmony, Static Noise, or Noisy Static? Attali, Belarusian Popular Music, and Lukashenka’s Crumbling Power Hegemony.
    2022
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt, Morten Irgens, Ida Pallin Bostadløkken :
    Er akademisk boikott av Russland en god idé?
    09. March 2022 DATA
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Hånfliret som ble "sannhet"
    Klassekampen 17. March 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Belarusian Popular Music under Lukashenka: A Theoretical Perspective
    2022
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt, Mylena Kifle :
    Kunstnere tar til gatene
    25. February 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt, Emma Victoria Hegnar :
    Dugin-angrepet: Russerne kan selv stå bak
    22. August 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Introduksjon til konsert med Ekaterina Efremova
    Konsert 2021
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Andreev’s Hyper-Realism: Krasnyi smekh and the ongoing war
    2021
  • Bjarge Schwenke Fors, Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Grensekryssende kultur i nord
    2021
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Grensekryssende norsk-russisk kultursamarbeid
    2021
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt, Aleksandr Borisov :
    «Гражданская Оборона» в Норвегии. Как были организованы последние зарубежные гастроли легенды сибирского панка?
    20. February 2021 FULLTEKST
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Introduksjon til visning av Sergej Eisenshteins "Ivan den grusomme del 1 og 2"
    Filmvisning: Eisenshteins "Ivan den grusomme" del 1 og 2 2021
  • Aleksandr Borisov, Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Последние гастроли «Гражданской обороны» Кто привозил Летова в Норвегию и сколько это стоило
    20. February 2021 FULLTEKST
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Musical Predictions of Change? Attali, Belarusian Popular Music, and Lukashenka’s Crumbling Power Hegemony.
    2021
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt, Arne Egil Tønset :
    Musikk og protest i Hviterussland
    07. February 2021
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt, Håvard Bækken, Sigrid Agnethe Hansen :
    Helgemorgen "Hvordan er det å være opposisjonell i Russland?"
    31. January 2021
  • Andrei Rogatchevski, Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    The Madness and the Horror: Leonid Andreev’s Zombie Apocalypse
    2020
  • Helene Skjeggestad, Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    I all hemmelighet møtes de til sang og musikk. Her formes motstanden mot diktatoren.
    27. September 2020 DATA
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Hammer, Chisel, Voice and Machine: Work songs, industrial music, and mining
    2020
  • Arve Hansen, Yngvar B. Steinholt, Andrei Rogatchevski :
    Mass Protests from a Spatial Perspective: Discontent and Urban Public Space in Kyiv, Minsk, and Moscow
    2020 FULLTEKST
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt, Kirill Kobrin, Owen Hatherley, Kjartan Fløgstad, Oscar Mc Fall, Agnes Nedregård et al.:
    Transborder café: The Russian Trace in the West (panel)
    2020
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt, Andrei Rogatchevski :
    Introducing Russia Through Film
    2019
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Musikalsk nasjonsbygging ovenfra: Kremls hymne.
    2019
  • Arve Hansen, Yngvar B. Steinholt, Andrei Rogatchevski, David-Emil Wickström :
    Book presentation, Kyiv: A War of Songs
    2019
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    "Vincent, Vincent!" - Mainnsjit-estetikk og russisk konseptualisme
    2019
  • Arve Hansen, Andrei Rogatchevski, Yngvar B. Steinholt, David-Emil Wickström :
    Open House: "A War of Songs"
    2019
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Perfection, Imperfection and Russian Protest Art: A Walk in the Existential Woods
    2019
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Yngvar Kjus. Live and Recorded: Musical Experience in the Digital Millennium. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
    Studia Musicologica Norvegica 2019 DOI
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Bring on the Ban: Disrupting the Musical Symbol of Official Russia
    2019
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Micro Clear Spot – Egor Letov
    20. February 2018 DATA
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Anthem Anathema: Re-interpreting the Russian National Anthem
    2018
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Russian Art Activism Featuring Flying Felines
    2018
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Mocking a Presentist Utopia: Russian and Ukrainian parodies of the Russian National anthem - key findings
    2018
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt :
    Hull i hodet og hull i planeten
    Bergens Tidende 14. June 2018 FULLTEKST
  • Yngvar B. Steinholt, Svetlana Sokolova :
    Russian language, culture, and society education for understanding "the other"
    2018

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    Research interests

    Russian contemporary culture, art and activism. Soviet and post-Soviet popular music. Sound studies. Industrial aesthetics. Concepts and portrayals of madness and the irrational in Russian literature. Russian and East-Slavonic politics and societies. Russian cultural and political relations with former Soviet republics and the Soviet past. Norwegian- Russian, Norwegian-Ukrainian, and Norwegian Belorusian relations and their representation in art and culture.

    Teaching

    Steinholt teaches courses in Culture, Literature, Media, History, and Politics on the BA- and MA-levels of Russian and Russian Studies programmes, and some shared courses. Current courses taught are: HIF-1014, RUS-1110, RUS-1115, RUS-2110/HIF-2110,HIF-3111, and RUS-3115 in the spring semester and RUS-1025, RUS-1210, RUS-2021 and HIS-3301 in the autumn semester. Course descriptions are found on the UiT website, but it is usually faster to google search the course code + UiT.