Engelsk institutt

The Academic Staff at the Department of English

Charles Amstrong, Dr. Art.
Førsteamanuensis

Cand. philol. (Tromsø, 1995), Dr.art. (Bergen, 2001). The author of Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife, as well as articles on the literature and poetics of the Romantic era, 20th century prose and poetry, and modern literary theory. Currently working on a project concerning the philosophy of memory and the poetry of Wordsworth, Tennyson, Yeats and Heaney.
charles.armstrong@eng.uib.no
For more information: http://www.hf.uib.no/i/Engelsk/Armstrong.html


Marit Berge, Ph. D.
Førsteamanuensis

Ph. D. (London, 1979). Teaches British literature and civilization, and practical English. Current research interests include Restoration drama and Anglo-Irish literature (the Big House novel).
marit.berge@eng.uib.no


Leiv Egil Breivik, Dr. Philos.
Professor

Cand. philol. (Bergen, 1971); Dr. Philos. (Tromsø, 1982). Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1993-), Honorary Research Fellow, University College London (1991-). Served as Visiting Professor/Scholar at the universities of London and Vienna. Research interests include syntax, pragmatics and corpus linguistics (synchronic and diachronic). Has published books and articles within these areas. His current research interest focuses on grammaticalisation and subjectification in a diachronic perspective.
leiv.breivik@eng.uib.no


Janne Stigen Drangsholt, Cand. Philol.
Stipendiat

Cand. Philol. (Bergen 2000). Enrolled in the faculty's doctorate program in October 2001. Dissertation project on the poetry of Ted Hughes.
janne.drangsholt@eng.uib.no


Anne-Brit Fenner, Cand. Philol.
Univ.lektor

More information later.
anne.fenner@eng.uib.no


Sandra Halverson, Dr. Art.
Førsteamanuensis

Undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Bergen (cand. philol. 1993, dr. art 1998). Current position with department since January 1994. Also qualified as government authorized translator (1989). Research interests and publications in the fields of translation studies and cognitive linguistics, with current focus on the implications of cognitive theories for the study of translation. Teaching responsibilities include undergraduate courses in translation and translation theory and graduate courses and thesis advising in translation studies and cognitive linguistics.
sandra.halverson@eng.uib.no


Bente Hannisdal, Cand. Philol.
Stipendiat

Cand. philol (Bergen 1996). Enrolled in the faculty's doctorate programme in January 2001. Current research area (dissertation project): Phonological variation and change in British English Received Pronunciation. Teaches English phonetics (British and American pronunciation and intonation) and grammar.
bente.hannisdal@eng.uib.no


Kari E. Haugland, Dr. Art.
Førsteamanuensis

Cand. philol. (Bergen, 1984). Teaches English language, particularly phonetics. Publications within the areas of terminology/lexicography and historical linguistics. Current research interests focus on English historical linguistics. Visiting scholar Memorial University, St.John's (1997).
kari.haugland@eng.uib.no


Øystein Heggelund, Cand. Philol.
Stipendiat

More information later.
oystein.heggelund@eng.uib.no


Øyunn Hestetun, Fil. Dr.
Førsteamanuensis

Cand. philol. (Bergen), Fil. Dr. (Uppsala). Teaches American literature and cultural studies. Current research interests include literary and cultural theory and ethnic literature.
oyunn.hestetun@eng.uib.no


Karol Janicki, Ph. D.
Professor

Ph. D. (Poznan), Habilitation (Poznan). Research interests include cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics and philosophy of language. Has published books and articles in the area of English linguistics, applied linguistics, cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics. Visiting professor in Washington D.C. (1981-1982) and Hamburg (1990), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow (1986-1987; 1991, 1998, 2004). Current project: Real-Life Language Problems. In Bergen since 1994.
karol.janicki@eng.uib.no
For more information:   http://www.hf.uib.no/i/Engelsk/Janicki.html


Gard B. Jenset, MPhil.
Stipendiat

MPhil (Bergen, 2005). Enrolled in the faculty's PhD program since October 2006. Dissertation project: "Cognitive aspects of existential 'there'," which is a diachronic cognitive functional study of existential clauses in English.
gard.jenset@eng.uib.no


Lene M. Johannessen, Dr.art
Post.doc.

Dr.art, American Studies (Bergen, 2002). Research interests: American, Chicano, Postcolonial literatures and cultures, theories of language, politics and theories of identity. Current project “The Architectonics of Memory in Exile and Migration” explores the tropology of the migratory in Am. lit. Visiting scholar at Duke University 1996/97, at UCSB 2000.
lene.johannessen@eng.uib.no

Randi Koppen, Dr. Art.
Førsteamanuensis

Cand. philol. (Bergen, 1989) Dr. Art. (Bergen, 1995). Has published articles on British and American feminist drama and on theories of dramatic reception. Current research interests include 20th century drama and feminist/gender studies. She is currently completing a book on feminism in British and American theatre since 1960. Visiting academic at Royal Holloway College, University of London (1991-1993).
randi.koppen@eng.uib.no


R. Kavu Ngala, MPhil.
Stipendiat

MPhil (Bergen, 2005). Enrolled in the faculty's doctorate program in 2006. Dissertation project: Tragedic Responses: Poetics of Crisis in Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi and Welcome Msomi.
risley.ngala@eng.uib.no


Heidi Silje Moen, Cand. philol.
Stipendiat

Cand. philol. (Bergen 2003). Enrolled in the faculty's doctorate programme in September 2006.
Dissertation project: Ezra Pound and the Split Image: A reconstruction.
heidi.moen@eng.uib.no


Lise Opdahl, Dr. Philos.
Førsteamanuensis

Cand. philol. (Oslo, Dr.Philos (Bergen). Further studies in general linguistics at University of Texas and University of Oslo. Teaches English linguistics, especially grammar and history of the language. Research interests include English adverbial forms, computer assisted teaching of English, and language and gender. Has published within all these areas. Visiting scholar at several British and American Universities
lise.opdahl@eng.uib.no


Stuart Sillars, Ph.D.
Professor

BA (Exeter), MA (Wales), PhD (Amsterdam), Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London. Previously member of Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. Publications include Art and Survival in First World War Britain (Macmillan, 1987), British Romantic Art and the Second World War (Macmillan, 1991), Visualisation In English Popular Fiction (Routledge, 1995), Structure and Dissolution in English Writing (Macmillan, 1999) and numerous articles, distance learning texts and secondary school textbooks. Interests include literature and the visual arts; early twentieth century writing, especially poetry and fiction of the First World War; literature and painting of the Romantic period. Currently at work on Renaissance iconography, especially Shakespeare and the visual imagination.
stuart.sillars@eng.uib.no


Aud Solbjørg Skulstad, Dr. Art.
Førsteamanuensis
aud.skulstad@eng.uib.no


Zeljka Svrljuga, Dr. Art.
Førsteamanuensis

Cand. philol. (Bergen). Teaches American literature and civilization. Currently completing a project on moods as discursive practices. Research interests and publications in the fields of American fiction and feminist studies.
zeljka.svrljuga@eng.uib.no


Øyvind Vågnes, Cand. Philol.
Stipendiat

Cand.philol. (Bergen, 1999). Enrolled in the faculty's doctorate program in 2002. Dissertation project: Remembering Civic Trauma: The Kennedy Assassination in Fiction and Film. Fulbright fellow at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2001-2002.
oyvind.vagnes@eng.uib.no

Stephanie Wold, Cand. Philol.
Stipendiat

Cand. Philol. (Bergen 2003). Enrolled in the faculty's docorate programme in August 2005. Dissertation project: Cogito Ergo Loquor - a Cognitive Linguistic approach to foreign language learning: the case of the English progressive.
Stephanie.Wold@eng.uib.no