RESEARCH AND PROJECT WORK
I have recently published articles on diverse themes, including unnatural narratology in Frankenstein, English teaching methodology, YA sustainability narratives, Hawthorne's A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, and Irving's The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
My primary literary research applies ideas on structure, narrative persona, and closure, as derived from contemporary short-story theory, to 19th century American writers such as Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This vein of inquiry leads to new understandings of their craft and significance.
Additionally, my education research focuses on the intersection of critical theory and middle grades English education and the early introduction of critical reading, and especially reader-response and narratology-based teaching strategies, into the Norwegian national curriculum. I have recently published two articles highlighting this theme, with a third in press and scheduled for publication in fall 2020.
I have planned new research on structural ambiguity in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion and the limits of technology, the presidential legacy of Fanshawe by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and non-linear narrative time in Melville's Pierre.