Ellen Mortensen - CV
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Professor/Director, Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies
(SKOK) Tel: 47 - 55-58 23 20 Mob.: 47 - 48 22 04 07
EducationPh.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 1989, Comparative
Literature PublicationsA: BOOKS 1. Touching Thought: Ontology and Sexual Difference. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002. 2. The Feminine and Nihilism: Luce Irigaray with Nietzsche and Heidegger Oslo/Oxford: Scandinavian University Press/Oxford U Press (distr.), 1994. 3. Sex, Breath and Force: Sexual Difference in a Post-Feminist Era. Ed. by Ellen Mortensen. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005 (Forthcoming)
4. "Kjønnsleppenes estetikk". Kvinneforskning, 4/2001, pp. 44-51. 5. "'All That Is Nameless and New': Exploring Queer Paths in Karin Boye's Poetry." Scandinavica, vol. 40, no. 1, May 2001, pp. 41-70. 6. "Finnes det en feminin estetikk?" Edda, no. 2, (2001), pp. 224-234. 7. "En ubestemmelig død: Mimesis og temporalitet i Hjalmar Gullbergs 'Död amazon." Agora, no. 4/00-1/01, pp. 140-154. 8. 'En bevegelig hær av metaforer...:' Nietzsche, de Man og nyretorikkens utfordringer." Rhetorica Scandinavica, no. 7/1998, pp. 34.39. 9. "Amasoner, nymfer og gjenferd: en lesning av Charles Baudelaires 'Femmes damnées.' Lambda Nordica, Vol. 3, no. 4, 1997, pp. 16-40. 10. "Butches & Nomads: the Dynamic Imperative in Feminist Theory". In Nora: Nordic Journal of Women's Studies, no. 1, Vol. 4 (1996), pp. 53-62.
11.”Kjødets poesi: Gertrude Steins ‘Lifting Belly’” i Maskepi og maskerade: Festskrift til Hans Erik Aarset på hans 60-årsdag. Eds. Britt Andersen, Knut Ove Eliassen and Gunnar Foss. Trondheim: Tapir, 2005, pp. 97-104. 12. “Edvardas lunefulle begjær” i Hamsuns kvinner: 8 foredrag fra Hamsundagene på Hamarøy 2004. Ed. by Even Arntzen. Hamarøy: Hamsun-Selskapet, 2004, pp. 23-51. 13. "Kjønn i litteraturen: et spørsmål om å være, å bli eller å gjøre?" In Kultur og Kjønn. Eds. Siri Gerhard and Kari Melby. Oslo: Høyskoleforlaget/Norges Forskningsråd, Kulturstudier, nr. 38 (2004), pp. 91-104. 14. "En sadistisk hermafroditt? Kjønnsfigurasjon i Emily Dickinsons 'She dealt her pretty words like Blades'" in Fanden går i kloster: Elleve tekster om det andre. Eds. Randi Gressgård and Siri Meyer. Oslo: Spartacus, 2002, pp. 103-115. 15. “Moralens puls”. I Makt og umoral. Ed. Siri Meyer. (Oslo: Aschehoug, 2001), pp. 150-153. 16. “’The Master-Mistress of my Passion:’ The Rhetoric of Metamorphic Love in Shakespeare's Sonnets.” in Questions of Rhetoric: Litarary Studies. Eds. Jostein Gripsrud and Peter Larsen. Rhetoric, Knowledge, Mediation, No. 4, 1999, pp. 28-70. 17. “Fra kjønnsidentitet til nomadiske subjekt.” In Normalitet og identitesmakt i Norge. Ed, by Siri Meyer. (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1999), pp. 169-187. 18."Cecile Løveids Maria Q: drømmetekst eller myto-poetisk tragedie?" In Livsritualer: om Cecilie Løveids dramatikk. Ed. Merete Morken Andersen (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1998), pp. 142-156. 19. "Writing in the Air: Irigaray with Heidegger." In Epistemology, Ethics, Feminism. Eds. Preuss et al. (Oslo: Academica/The University of Oslo, 1997) pp. 31-40. 20. "Eurydikes Taushet: Emily Dickinsons dødslyrikk og det orfiske.” In Modernismens kjønn. Eds. Irene Iversen & Anne Birgitte Rønning. (Oslo: Pax Forlag, 1997), pp. 71-94. 21. "Den særegne klang av knust sprog. Om Cecilie Løveid." Nordisk kvinnelitteraturhistorie, Bind. IV: Paa jorden. Red. Elisabeth Møller Jensen (København: Rosinante, 1997), pp. 366-372. 22. “Det nye i feministisk retorikk- gammelt nytt? Frigjøringens språkdrakt hos Judith Butler og Camille Paglia. In Det Nye. Ed. Siri Meyer. Kulturtekster, no. 9 (Bergen: Senter for europeiske kulturstudier, 1997), pp. 114-133. 23. "Skrift og drift på vift. Om Karin Moes Kjønnskrift." In Perifraser: Festskrift til Per Buvik. Eds. Atle Kittang and Lars Sætre (Bergen: The University of Bergen, 1996) pp. 177-195. 24. "Ecriture féminine: A Textual Exploration of Proximities between Hélène Cixous 'Le Rire de la Méduse', Marguerite Duras' Moderato Cantabile and Monique Wittig's Les Guérillères ". In Mosaikker. Eds. E. Arntzen et al. (Tromsø: Tromsø-studier i litteratur, no. 7, 1996), pp. 167-189. 25. "Woman's (Un)truth and le féminin: Reading Luce Irigaray With Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. In Engaging with Irigaray. Eds. N. Schor, C. Burke & M. Whitford (London/New York: Columbia U Press, 1994), pp. 211-228. 26. "Irigaray and Nietzsche: Echo and Narcissus Revisited." In
The Fate of the New Nietzsche. Eds. Michael Ansell-Pearson and
Howard Cahill (London: Avebury Press, 1993), pp. 229-251.
27. “Drømmen i litteraturen”. Catalogue text for the exhibition “Kunsten å sove” by Anne J. Sæten, Bergen Museum, (November 2004-February 2005), p. 26. 28. "Livet som tekst: ei lesning av romanen Kris av Karin Boye". Trans. by Marit Neergaard. Syn og Segn, 1/2004, pp. 18-25. 29. “Lausunger, lesber og libertinere: betenkning over den (u)offisielle familien. Vinduet, 1/1998, pp. 30. "Å kjede seg til døde: kvinnen og det tragiske i Hedda Gabler.” Vagant , no. 4, December 1996, pp. 71-94. 31. "Luce Irigaray og spørsmålet om seksuell differens", Vinduet, Vol. 48, no. 2 (1994), pp. 21-28. 32. "Nyere fransk feministisk teori, eller, kjønnsdifferens i den vitenskapelige diskursen.” Nytt om kvinneforskning, no. 5, 1991, pp. 76-82. 33. "Narcissus and the Construction of 'I' in Autobiography.” In Lectures Autobiographiques. Ed. Elaine Marks (Madison: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984), pp. 1-13. 34. Lesbianism: A Closeted Existence in within the Contemporary American Lesbian-feminist Novel? Master's Thesis in English (Bergen: The University of Bergen, 1982). 112p.
35. “Sjikane eller kritikk? Julia Kristeva og Holbergprisen.” Debate article written with Atle Kittang and Lars Sætre. Bergens Tidende, January 6th, 2005, p. 32. 36. “Den eksperimentelle Moe”. Article in the series “Bak namnet” in Dag og Tid, Saturday, December 18th, 2004, p. 30. 37. "Flatbankere, puselesber og femmer". Samtiden, no /2004, pp. 38. "Kultur og ukultur i Norges forskningsråd". Samtiden, no. 2/2002. pp. 39. "Å leve som seksuell flyktning i sitt eget land".
Samtiden, no.1/2001, pp. 74-81.
31.Bibliography: Post-War Norwegian Literature. Compiled by Ellen Mortensen. Eds. Erwin K. Welsch and Ellen Mortensen. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Memorial Library, 1984. Guest Lectures, Papers & Presentations”Freedom in Feminism”. Paper presented at the research seminar Feminism, Democracy, Freedom, Centre de coopération franco-norvégienne, MSH, Paris, December 9th, 2005. “Destructive Ontology and the Aesthetic Construction of Gender”. Lecture given at the Ph.D.-course Postmodern Thinking and Feminist Research, Nordic Research School of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Oslo, November 23rd, 2005. “Julia Kristeva og de nye sjelslidelsene”. Presentation at the annual “Kokstad” Comparative Literature seminar, University of Bergen, December 20th, 2005. ”Sexual Difference, Ontological Difference: Irigaray and Heidegger”. Paper presented at the 44th annual SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy) Conference, Utah Valley State College, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, October 22, 2005. “Poesi: Shakespeare til Karin Moe”. Guest lectures (4 hours) at “Fofatterstudiet”, Høgskolen in Telemark, Bø, Norway, September 6th & 7th, 2005. “Frihet og det imaginære”. Plenary paper presented at the research seminar “Feminism, Emancipation, Freedom”, at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies (SKOK), University of Bergen, Norway, May 9th, 2005. “Feminine maskuliniteter.” Presentation given at the research seminar “Maskulinitet” at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen, April 11th, 2005. “Airy Reserves: Irigaray With Heidegger”. Plenary paper given at an international research seminar entitled “Luce Irigaray: Religion, Ethics, Ontology”. Christina Institute for Women’s Studies, University of Helsinki, Febrary 24-26, 2005. “Antigone and the Polis”. Paper given at the conference “Gendering the State, Gendering the Body”. SKOK (Centre for Women’s and Gender Research), University of Bergen, Norway, January 20th, 2005. Presentation at a Colloquium on Sara Heinemäa’s Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, de Beauvoir. (2004) Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning, University of Oslo, Norway. November 27th, 2004. “Edvardas lunefulle begjær” Foredrag, Hamsundagene ( “Hamsuns kvinner”) Hamarøy, Noway, August 5th, 2004. “Kristevas kvinnelige genier: Colette”. Presentation given at the conference “Min Kristeva”. Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning, University of Oslo, May 12th, 2004. "Sammenbruddets retorikk: Karin Boyes Kris. Invited guest lecture at "Estetisk seminar", University of Oslo, March 26th, 2004. "Lyst, litteratur og viten: fortolkning av tilfellet Karin Boye". Invited guest lecture at national research seminar entitled "Mellom diagnose og fortolkning", Røros, November 26-28, 2003. "Kjønnsforestillinger i den norske homo- og lesbekampen".
Presentation given at "Kvinner i akademia". Participant on a panel discussion. March 8th, 2003. SEFOS-senteret, University of Bergen, Norway. "Litteraturens lokalitet". Presentation given at a National conference Litteraturvitenskap nå!, Terminus Hotel, Bergen, April 4th, 2003. "Kjønn og definisjonsmakt: Tilfellet Toni Morrison, Beloved. Guest lecture given at Norge som innvandingsland. Universitetet i Bergen, April 3rd, 2003. "Post-strukturalistiske kjønnsfigurasjoner". Guest lecture given at Bergen Kunstskole, March 21st, 2003. "Hvor skeive kan vi bli? Om eksistens, frihet og (skeiv) teori". Presentation given at UgleZ, University of Bergen, March 7th, 2003. "Fra kjønnsidentitet til nomadiske subjekt". Public lecture at Studentersamfunnet, University of Bergen, February 12th, 2003. "Kjønn, eksistens og frihet". Presentation (and colloquium with Atle Kittang) in "Samtaler om kjønn", Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning, University of Bergen, February 10th, 2003. "Feminismen i dag: Frøkenstiftelse eller et kjærlighetens laboratorium?" Invited speaker at the conference Har vi rom for kjærlighet i feminismen?, organized by Kjærlighetsnettverket, Senter for kvinneforskning, University of Oslo, October 24th & 25th, 2002. "Litteratur som hendelse i den teknologiske tidsalder". Invited speaker at the conference "Risikosoner", organized by Maktutredningen and Norsk Kulturråd (Norwegian Cultural Council), Oslo, Norway, August 29th. &30th, 2002. Public lecture at Nordland Academy's annual "Litteraturseminar" in Melbu, Norway, Juli 8th & 9th, 2002, a two-day seminar med lectures on the theme "Kjærlighetens språk (The Language of Love)", followed by a panel dicussion with the Norwegian writers Ragnfrid Trohaug og Per Knutsen. "Questioning Nietzsche's Will To Power in the Age of Technology". Key note speaker at the annual conference for the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP), East Anglia Polytechic University, Cambridge, UK, April 19th, 2002. "Kulturens utstøtte? Homofili, kjønn og seksualitet". Public lecture, Studentersamfunnet, September 15th, 2001. "Kjønn i litteraturen: et spørsmål om å være, å bli eller å agere?" Invited speaker at the conference "Kultur og kjønn (Gender & Culture)" organized by the Norwegian Research Council, Hotel Britannia, Trondheim, Norway, August 30th & 31st, 2001. “Finnes det en feminin estetikk? (Is there a feminist Aesthetics?)” Presentation given at the conference “Kjønn og estetikk”, Senter for kvinneforskning, Universitetet i Oslo, November 9th, 2000. “Poetic Unitimeliness: Mimesis and Temporality in Hjalmar Gullberg’s poem 'Död amazon.'” Paper presented at the SASS-2000 (Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies), Madison, WI, May 6th, 2000. “Writing in the Air: Irigaray with Heidegger.” Invited guest lecture given at the Department of Philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook, NY, May 4th, 2000. “Emily Dickinson’s “She dealt her Pretty Words like Blades: a reading.” Invited lecture given at the Women Studies Department, University of Gothenberg, Sweden, May 30th, 1999. “Det feminine som trussel og potensiale: om Nietzsche og (kjønns)makt”. Lecture given at the seminar series “Kjønn og makt”. Senter for kvinne- og kjønnstudier, Universitetet i Bergen, March 12th, 1999. “Om lesbisk tekstualitet.” Presentation given at a conference on “Homosexual Studies” arranged by the Network for Research on Homosexuality, University of Oslo, Norway, September ?th, 1998. “Tribadiske figurasjoner: kropps- og kjønnstenkning hos Elizabeth Grosz.” Public lecture given for the lecture series, Paradoxes of Gender, Center for Feminist Studies, University of Bergen, Norway, October 10th, 1997. "Cecile Løveids Maria Q: drømmetekst eller myto-poetisk tragedie?" Paper given at a conference entitled Nordiske kvinners litteratur, Höyskolen i Agder, Norway, June 18th, 1997. “Spøkelser, amasoner og rovdyr: litterære figurasjoner av den lesbiske.” Presentation given at Symposium for Studies in Homosexualities, Center for Feminist Studies, University of Bergen, Norway, November 9th, 1996. “Lausunger, lesber og libertinere: betenkning over den (u)offisielle familien.” Invited presentation given at a public forum at Gyldendal Publishing House, January 12th, 1998 in Oslo, Norway. “Den vanvittige kjærligheten.” Public lecture given at Lørdagsuniversitetet, Den Nasjonale Scene, Bergen, Norway, October 2nd, 1996. “Geschlecht, Sexual Difference and the Body: Heidegger and Derrida.” Paper presented at the 3rd Nordic Symposium of Women and Philosophy, entitled Body, Difference and Wonder: Ethical and Epistemological Perspectives. Helsinki, Finland, May 5th, 1996. "Butches & Nomads: the Dynamic Imperative in Feminist Theory. “ Keynote speech given at the National Convention for Women’s Studies in Finland, University of Helsinki, November 9th, 1995. “Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.” Guest lecture given at the Center for Women’s Studies, University of Trondheim, Norway, September 21st-22nd, 1995. “Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own.” Guest lecture given at the Center for Women’s Studies, University of Trondheim, Norway, September 8th, 1995. “Feminist Literary Criticism: A Historical Overview.” Guest lecture given at the Center for Womens’s Studies, University of Trondheim, Norway, September 7th, 1995. “Det nye i feministisk retorikk- gammelt nytt? Frigjøringens språkdrakt hos Judith Butler og Camille Paglia. Presentation given at a Conference entitled Det Nye, Godøysund, Norway, August 18th-20th, 1995. “Feministisk litteraturteori: Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva.” A series of guest lectures (6 hours) given at the University of Tromsø, Dept. of Langauges and Literature, Norway, June 28th-29th, 1995. “Retorisk (om)vendinger i feministisk og ‘skeiv’ teori.” Presentation given at Symposium for “Rhetoric, Knowledge, Mediation: ( Project on Theories of Knowledge and Media). Grieg Suitell, Bergen, Norway, April 27th, 1995. “På kjønnstravestiens scene: Judith Butler and Camille Paglia.” Lecture given at Center for Feminist Studies, University of Bergen, Norway, March 3rd, 1995. “Skrift og drift på vift: Karin Moes Kjønnskrift.” Public lecture given on Fagkritisk dag, University of Bergen, Norway, February 3rd, 1995. "Eurydice's Silence: Emily Dickinson's Death Lyric and the
Orphic." Paper presented at the Nordic conference, Modernismens
kjønn (The Gender of Modernism), University of Oslo, 25.
- 27. november 1994. "A Reading Supplement: Emily Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral,
in my Brain." Presentation given at the Theory Colloquium
at the Department of Comparative Literarture, University of Bergen,
November 2nd, 1994. "Irigaray and Nietzsche: Echo and Narcissus Revisited." Paper given at Nietzsche Society Conference, Queen May and Westfield College, University of London, April 1992. "Mellom Gertrude Stein og Luce Irigaray.” Paper given at Women's Studies Conference, "Kvinneskrift: mellom det moderne og det post-moderne". Women's Studies Research Center, University of Trondheim, Norway, March 9th, 1992. "Luce Irigarays syn på kvinnelig seksualitet." Paper given at Women's Studies Conference, "Kropp og kvinnelighet", Women's Studies Research Center, University of Oslo, November 27- 28, 1991. "Nyere fransk feministisk teori eller kjønnsdifferens og humanistisk kvinneforskning." Presentation given at National Symposium for Research in Women's Studies at the University of Tromsø, Norway, September 1991. "Guerrilla Poetry and Sexual Difference: Reading Karin Moe's Kjønnskrift with Luce Irigaray." Paper given at SASS (Society for the Advancement of Scadinavian Studies) Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 2-4, 1991. "Nyere franske feministiske teoretikere: Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous & Luce Irigaray" (Contemporary French Feminist Theorists: Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous & Luce Irigaray). Presentation given at a Women's Studies Colloquium at the University of Tromsö, February 27, 1990. "Nihilisme og femininitet: en lesning av Luce Irigarays Amante marine de Friedrich Nietzsche" (Nihilism and Femininity: a Reading of Luce Irigaray's Amante marine de Friedrich Nietzsche). Presentation given at a Research Colloquium in Comparative Literature at the University of Tromsö, Norway, February 2, 1990. "Simone de Beauvoirs Det Annet Kjönn förti år etter" (Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex Fourty Years Later). Presentation given at a Women's Studies Colloquium at the University of Tromsö, Norway, November 21, 1989. "Luce Irigaray, Friedrich Nietzsche og spörsmålet
om "le féminin" (Luce Irigaray, Friedrich Nietzsche
and the Question of `le féminin'). Paper given at National
Seminar for Fellows in Comparative Literature at Sundvolden Turisthotell,
Norway, November 6-10, 1989. Positions/Teaching experienceDirector, Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies
(SKOK), University of Bergen, Norway, 2005- Professor, Comparative Literature, Dept. of Linguistics and Comparative
Literature, University of Bergen, Norway, (1999 -) Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Dept. of Linguistics
and Comparative Literature, University of Bergen, Norway. (1994-1999) Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Literature,
University of Tromsø, Norway. (1991-1994) Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature, University of
Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistant, Department of French and Italian, University
of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistant, Women's Studies Program University of Wisconsin-Madison Lecturer, Department of English, Bodö Lærehögskole,
Bodö, Norway
AdministrationMember of Doctoral Committee and 1st Opponent in the doctoral defense for Andrea Susan Wheeler, School of Architechture, University of Nottingham, England, March 14th, 2005. Leader, Board of Directors, Center for women's and Gender Research, University of Bergen, 2004-2005. Member, Board of Directors, Center for women's and Gender Research, University of Bergen, 2003-2004. Leader, Program Committee for the development of a Bachelor's Degree in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Bergen, (2002-) Member, Doctoral Committee for Charles Ivan Armstrong, Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of Bergen, Norway (2002-2003). Administrative leader, Doctoral Commitee, Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of Bergen, Norway (2002). Member, Hiring Committee, Post-doc.-Fellowship in Women's and Gender Studies, University of Bergen, Norway (2002). Chair, Section for Comparative Literature, University of Bergen, Norway, 2001-2002. Vice-Chair, Advisory Board, Center for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen, Norway, (1999) Chair, Advisory Board for Center for Feminist Studies in the Humanities, Univeristy of Bergen, Norway (1997-1999) Chair, Section for Comparative Literature, University of Bergen, 1997-1998. Member, Hiring Committee, 4-year position (amanuensis/første-amanuensis) in English Literature, University of Bergen, Norway, 1994. Member, Hiring Committee, 4-year position (amanuensis/første-amanuensis) in Comparative Literature, University of Bergen, Norway, 1994. Chair, Hiring Committee, Associate Professorship in Comparative Literature, University of Tromsø, Norway 1993-94. Associate Dean, Institutt for språk og litteratur - ISL Chair, Allmenn litteraturvitenskap (Comparative Literature) Member, Hiring Committee, Research Stipend, Comparative Literature,
University of Tromsø, 1992. Other relevant Work ExperienceEditorial Board, Syn og Segn. Oslo: Samlaget (2002-) Editorial Board, Lambda Nordica. Stockholm: Scandinavian University Press, (1998-) Editorial Board, Norsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press (1997-1999). Assistant Editor (part time), the Women's Studies Librarian's
Office of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Supervisor: Susan
Searing, Women's Studies Librarian), December 1985 - August 1987 Main compiler of Feminist Periodicals, published by the Women's
Studies Librarians Office of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
December 1985 - August 1987.
Honors/AwardsPaid sabbatical with Travel Grant from the University of Bergen,
Norway/ Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Feminist Studies, University of Bergen,
Norway Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Research Fellowship from the Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Tromsø, Norway (1989-91) Knapp Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison (1987-88) Cash Award from Rotary International for study in Bordeaux, France
(1975-76)
ReferencesProfessor Próspero Saíz, Department of Comparative
Literature Professor Atle Kittang, Allmenn litteraturvitenskap, Lili Professor Per Buvik, Allmenn litteraturvitenskap, Lili
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