Engelsk personkortCastor, Laura Virginia
Professor
Kultur og litteratur
Funksjon
Professor engelsk litteraturvitenskap
Telefon
776 46568
Epost
Kontor/besøksadresse
Svfak / Humfak bygget
SVHUM E 2006
Verv
Medlem, Programstyret for Kvinnforsk, IKL Programstyret
Forskningsinteresser
Collective memory, trauma healing and literature, indigenous literatures of North America, African American literature and culture, American life narratives, literature and the land, 19th and 20th century gender studies, short fiction.
Forskningsprosjekter
In progress: A series of interrelated articles that develop trauma as an analytical lens for exploring the interconnections between literature, psychological healing, and the ethics and politics of testimony and witnessing in late 20th century/early 21st century America. The project includes but is not limited to post-9/11 writing. In it I examine recent fiction, poetry, and hybrid forms by writers such as Nicole Krauss, Jonathan Safran Foer, Toni Morrison, Sherman Alexie, Joan Didion, and Dorothy Alison.
Hjemmesider
Interesser
Yoga and meditation
Arbeider i CRIStin
- Castor, Laura Virginia. Rita Mestokosho's "L'Arbre de la Vie": Whose Memory, Whose Power?. 2009 ISBN 9783506768636.s 109 - 121.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. Review of Willa Cather's Alexander's Bridge: The Willa Cather Scholarly Edition. American Studies in Scandinavia 2009. ISSN 0044-8060.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. Representing Heid Erdrich`s 'Indians Who've Been to Paris': Whose Story? Whose Identity?. Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2008 ISBN 9781847186317.s 136 - 150.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. Photograph, Story, and Memory in Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Novus Forlag 2008 ISBN 978-82-7099-493-9.s 157 - 167.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. Captives, Colonizers, or Friends? Representing Quakers and Native Americans in James Alexander Thom's 'The Red Heart'. 2007 (8) ISBN 9789949115761. ISSN 1406-9199.s 56 - 65.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. "Claiming Place in Wor(l)ds: Linda Hogan's Solar Storms". MELUS 2006; Volum 31 (2). ISSN 0163-755X.s 157 - 180.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. "Julia Ward Howe, The Hermaphrodite". American Studies in Scandinavia 2005; Volum 37 (2). ISSN 0044-8060.s 107 - 111.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. Making the Familiar Strange: Representing the House in Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Landscape Chamber' and Linda Hogan's 'Friends and Fortunes'". University of South Carolina Press 2004 ISBN 1-57003-557-1.s 138 - 150.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Crux. American Studies in Scandinavia 2004; Volum 36 (1). ISSN 0044-8060.s 118 - 123.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. Ecological Politics and Comic Redemption in Louise Erdrich's The Antelope Wife. Nordlit 2004 (15). ISSN 0809-1668.s 121 - 131.
- Castor, Laura V. Mental decolonization through the arts: widening the circle of benefit for whom, where, and why?. Seminarrekke Metodologi og Kjønn 2012-02-16 - 2012-02-16 2012.
- Madsen, Linn Sollied; Castor, Laura V. Rappens kvinner: Syndebukk og Sexobjekt. 2012.
- Steiner, Sallie; Castor, Laura V. Mind, Body and School. 2012.
- Isaksen, Simon Berg; Storø, Danielle; Bjerkmo, Håvard; Castor, Laura V. DVD: Rapp som litterær sjanger/synlighet og påvirkning i samfunnet. 2012.
- Castor, Laura V. Reading Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America" in 2012: A past or present dystopia?. Forskningsdagene 2012-09-25 - 2012-09-25 2012.
- Castor, Laura V. Introduction to "The Choice 2012". Film 2012-11-06 - 2012-11-06 2012.
- Castor, Laura V. An election eve guide to making sense of the US presidential election 2012. Valgvake ved Studenthuset Driv 2012-11-06 - 2012-11-06 2012.
- Castor, Laura V. The END is near? An election day guide to making sense of the US presidential election. Valgvake ved AUF Tromsø 2012-11-06 - 2012-11-06 2012.
- Castor, Laura V. Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America:" Alternate history or present dystopia?. American Studies in Norway (ASANOR) 37th Conference 2012-10-19 - 2012-10-21 2012.
- Castor, Laura V. Indigenous literatures and arts: Some contemporary expressions. Undervisning for "Indigenous revitalization-languages, literature, and arts" 2012-02-27 - 2012-02-27 2012.
- Castor, Laura. The Words are the Best Reason for the Beat: From Culture Wars to the Poetry of Rap. Transatlantic Resonances 2011-05-26 - 2011-05-29 2011.
- Castor, Laura. Crossroads on the Path to Mental Decolonization: Research, Traditional Knowledge, and Joy Harjo's Music. Forskningsdagene 2011-09-24 - 2011-09-24 2011.
- Castor, Laura. The Power of Music as Mental Decolonization: A Meeting Point for Indigenous Knowledge and Academic Knowledge?. Riddu Riddu Festival 2011-07-22 - 2011-07-22 2011.
- Castor, Laura. Native Americans Meet European Americans: Teaching the Work of Sherman Alexie as culture, history, and literature. Fagdag for VGS lærere i Sør-Trøndelag 2011-05-06 - 2011-05-06 2011.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. The Power of Music in Toni Morrison's Fiction. Fagdag for lærere i VGS 2010-02-12 - 2010-02-12 2010.
- Castor, Laura. "Joy Harjo's Evolving Poetry: Transforming Memory Through Song, Saxophone, and Spoken Word". ASANOR/NACS 2010-09-23 - 2010-09-25 2010.
- Castor, Laura. Joy Harjo's Evolving Poetry: Transforming Memory Through Song, Saxophone, and Spoken Word. 31st American Indian Workshop 2010-03-25 - 2010-03-28 2010.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. Transatlantic Voices: Interpretations of Native North American Literatures. Great Plains Quarterly 2009; Volum 29 (3). ISSN 0275-7664.s 254 - 255.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. The jazz aesthetic of Toni Morrison: postcolonial, postmodern, or something else?. IKL-seminar, våren 2008 2008-05-19 - 2008-05-19 2008.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. Aboriginal, Francophone, International: Rewriting Collective Memory Through Poetry. Fourth Congress of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies 2007-04-26 - 2007-04-28 2007.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. Aboriginal Poetry from Québec: Another Way of Knowing?. Invited lecture to graduate students 2007-04-24 - 2007-04-24 2007.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. Review of Flannery O'Connor's Radical Reality. American Studies in Scandinavia 2007; Volum 39 (1). ISSN 0044-8060.s 110 - 114.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. Rita Mestokosho's Politics and Poetics of Memory. Språk og språkundervisning 2007 (1). ISSN 0038-8521.s 2 - 9.
- Castor, Laura Virginia; Schive, Celeste. Visiting 'Museum Indians' through Literature: Questioning, Protesting, or Intervening?. 28th American Indian Workshop 2007-05-10 - 2007-05-13 2007.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. "Rita Mestokosho's Politics and Poetics of Memory: Reading 'L'arbre de la vie'". Native Americans and First Nations: A Transnational Challenge 2006-11-16 - 2006-11-19 2006.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. Speaking for the Other or With Another? An Introduction to Paul Ricoeur's Theory of Narrative Identity. Seminar in Cultural Studies 2006-03-22 - 2006-03-22 2006.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. "On Telling the 'Truth' in Life Narratives: Examples from Native American Autobiographical Writing". ASANOR and NACS/ANEC pre-conference Teacher's Seminar 2006-10-27 - 2006-10-29 2006.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. "Speaking for the Other or With Another? Reading Heid Erdrich's 'Indians Who've Been to Paris' and Sherman Alexie's 'Can I Get a Witness?' with Paul Ricoeur". Place and American Indian History, Literature, and Culture 2006-03-29 - 2006-03-31 2006.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. "Colonizers, Captives, or Friends? Representing Quakers in James Alexander Thom's The Red Heart". Seventh International Tartu Conference on North American Studies 2005-04-25 - 2005-04-27 2005.
- Kleppe, Sandra Lee; Castor, Laura Virginia. “Reading Poetry in Contexts: A Workshop on the Harlem Renaissance.”. Fagdag for lærere i VGS 2005-04-01 - 2005-04-01 2005.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. "Reading Heid Erdrich's 'Indians Who've Been to Paris': Between Rocks and Hard Places?". Diasporic Narrative and the Ethics of Representation 2005-09-30 - 2005-10-01 2005.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. "Translation". Nordic Association for American Studies 2005-05-26 - 2005-05-29 2005.
- Castor, Laura Virginia. The Crux of the Matter? Aesthetic Value and Racial Discourse in the Writing of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Zora Neale Hurston. Nineteenth Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature 2004-04-02 - 2004-04-08 2004.
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