• Norwegian Attitudes toward Non-native English Speakers and Accents (2022)
• Analogue Invention: S. and House of Leaves as Integrated Texts (2021)
• The Mistress's Clothes, the Skeletons in Her Wardrobe, and the Servant Who Tends to Them: The Private Sphere in Victorian Fiction (2020)
• Reading the Victorian and Modern Female Homosexual in Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness and Edith Johnstone's A Sunless Heart (2019)
• Discourses of Nineteenth-Century Femininity in Colonial India: Victorian Women Travel Writers and their Reception (2017)
• Balancing on Borders: Graphic Expressions and Female Realities in Fun Home and Persepolis (2017)
• Wandering between two worlds': Poetry as a stabilizing force in the Victorian crisis of faith (2017)
• The Writing on The Wall: Rock as Dystopian Spectacle (2015)
• A Comparative Analysis of Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.
• The Representation of Gendered Speech in Joseph Conrad´s Under Western Eyes.
• The Intertextuality of Love. A study of intertextual references and allusions in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love and their importance in the play's discourse about love.
• Pathways. Man and the Environment in Contemporary Native American Writing.
• The Notion of National Identity: Britishness in Regard to Non - White Minority Ethnic Groups, Particulary British Muslims.
• "Det høres så mye mer fancy ut å plotte inn litt engelsk" Our Norwegian-English language - Are we really just borrowing words or are we actually bilingual?
• The role of camp talk and solidarity in the melioration of pejorative epithets in Will&Grace
• The Double Comparative Construction in Modern English.

• A thesis that considers issues raised by a literary work or by several literary works. For example: "Forced to take sides: the moral complexities of political division as presented in three plays about religious conflict in Northern Ireland".
• A thesis that considers the issues raised by film/TV adaptions of literary works. For example: "Three versions of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights: selection, translation and transformation".
• The translation of swearing, humour, politeness, and other pragmatic phenomena from or into English.
• The transference of implicit cultural knowledge in translations between languages of unequal size and influence (Norwegian and English).
• English borrowings in Norwegian and dyslexia: a challenge?

Giosuè Baggio

Theoretical and experimental projects:

• Compositional processing in words, phrases, sentences
• Processing of logical words: quantifiers, connectives ,etc.
• Referential processing: names, natural kind terms, etc.

Projects with relevance to education and technology:

• English as the language of science: learnability, processing
• Linguistics-based tests of current limitations of language AI

Nicole Busby

• Second language acquisition
• Extramural (out-of-class) language exposure
• Reading in a second language
• Academic language
• Vocabulary
• Reading strategies
• Language practices in higher education

Anne Dahl

• Second language acquisition
• Third language acquisition
• Age and language acquisition
• Multilingualism
• Multilingualism in education
• English in Norway

Annjo Greenall

• Literary translation
• Translation as a tool for teaching and learning
• Audiovisual translation (subtitling, dubbing)
• English as a global language and translation
• Translation of pragmatic meaning (e.g. swearing, politeness, humour, metaphor, irony, idioms, fixed expressions)
• Translation of linguistic varieties
• Translation of culture-specific concepts
• Translation and society
• Translation and music

Susanne Mohr

Not accepting new students until November 2025.  Otherwise:

• Language and tourism
• Linguistic landscapes & soundscapes
• Language variation on screen/in literature/in gaming/on social media
• Language attitudes, esp. in multilingual environments
• Language and sports
• Informal language learning
• Environmental & sustainability discourses 

Yolandi Ribbens-Klein

• Articulatory and acoustic phonetics
• Sociolinguistics of multilingualism (language contact; linguistic landscapes; language maintenance and shift; migration and belonging)
• Sociophonetics
• Variationist sociolinguistics (language variation and change, language variation across the lifespan)
• World Englishes

Mila Vulchanova

• Language development
• First and second language learning
• Language in developmental disorders (language impairment, dyslexia, autism)
• Language and cognition
• Mechanisms which support language learning
• Digital technology and language development
• Advanced experimental research

Andrew Weir

• Ellipsis: the syntax and semantics of ‘unspoken’ elements
• Grammar of ‘special registers’, especially in writing: grammatical phenomena in headlines, DMs/SMSs, diaries, recipes, …
• (Grammatical characteristics/analysis of) register variation generally
• (Grammatical characteristics/analysis of) ‘non-standard’ varieties of English (especially Scottish English, but others too)
• Comparative English/Scandinavian syntax and/or semantics (potentially also English/other languages)
• Interfaces between domains of grammar: syntax-semantics, syntax-phonology, phonology-syntax-semantics (NB! The phonology content of our courses is minimal, so advisees interested in phonology would probably need to either have studied some phonology elsewhere or be willing to self-study very quickly and efficiently)
• I am very open to other topics within (English) syntax or semantics, in consultation with individual advisees.
• I am also very open to co-supervision where formal linguistics intersects with other approaches, e.g. acquisition or sociolinguistics.

Gary Love

• Twentieth Century British History
• Genres of Political Writing and publishing in modern Britain
• British Conservatism and political ideas, including Thatcherism
• Politics and its representation on film and television
• Protest and social movements in 1980s Britain

Astrid Rasch

• Memory politics
• Decolonisation
• British, Australian, and Zimbabwean history and society
• Monuments, museums, and tourism
• Education, curricula, and textbooks
• Reparations and apologies
• Nostalgia
• Race, racism, and anti-racism
• Autobiography and life writing
• Postcolonial writing

Yuri Cowan

• Romantic and Victorian lyric and narrative poetry
• Romantic and Victorian fiction and non-fiction prose (including Victorian journalism; the Victorian novel; nineteenth-century sport and rural life; and the Victorian reception of medieval history, art, and literature)
• Medieval and Early Modern literature in verse and prose
• History of the Book (including the book arts; periodical culture such as magazines and journals; constructions of authorship; reading communities and reception; and paratext and epitext, including the relationship between text and illustration)
• Literature and Historiography (including the historical novel and the Neo-Victorian)
• Speculative Fiction (esp. anti-dystopias, cyberpunk, steampunk, the fantastic, and Victorian fantastic literature or so-called "Forgotten Fantasy")
• Fairytale, Myth, Legend, Saga, Ballad, Romance, and the Gothic
• Comics and the graphic novel
• Literature of the First World War
• Canadian Literature (especially regionalism in Canada from rural, urban, western, or Atlantic perspectives, and the First Nations or immigrant experience)
• Games and play in literature and culture
• Animals in literature (including representations of animal consciousness in fiction)
• Literature and the environment
• Life writing: memoir and autobiography (including travel writing)
• Material culture and everyday life in literature
• Digital culture and the future of the book

Nicole Falkenhayner

• Contemporary literature and genres ( ca. 1990-present)
• Literature and media
• Literature and memory
• Literature and society (esp. race, class, gender)
• Literature and cultural theory

Paul Goring

• Eighteenth-century British literature and culture
• Contemporary British fiction
• Word and image studies
• Print history
• Literary adaptation
• News and literature
• Song lyrics
• Gambling and literature

Domhnall Mitchell

• Emily Dickinson (poetry, reception)
• 19th century American literature
• 20th century short story
• 21st century Irish prose fiction

Rhonna Robbins-Sponaas

• Textiles and literature (interdisciplinary approaches)
• Creative nonfiction
• Literature of the American South
• Young adult or children’s literature

Hanna Musiol

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