Members
- Coordinator: Justin Parks
- Founding Coordinators: Stephen Wolfe and Johan Schimanski
Border Poetics/Border Culture research group
The Border Poetics research group, now the Border Poetics/Border Culture research group at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway, was started by Stephen Wolfe and Johan Schimanski in 2004. The group works with borders within the framework of literary studies and other aesthetic disciplines and provbide a cross-disciplinary platform for border studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. It cooperates with the Russian Space (RSCPR) research group at the same faculty.
Research partners and projects
The group has a network of research partners in Kirkenes, Bergen, Joensuu, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Ljubljana, Århus, Vienna, Zürich, Düsseldorf, Nijmegen, London, Glamorgan, Ithaca (Cornell University), Sydney, Zagreb, Amsterdam, Roskilde, Potchefstroom, Bergamo, the Negev, Madrid, Grenoble, St. Petersburg, Barcelona and Oslo.
The group has had responsibility for two projects with international partners, the Border Aesthetics Project and the "Cultural Production and Borders" Work Package within the EUBORDERSCAPES project. It has strong ties with the Barents Institute (BAI) and cooperates with or has previously cooperated with:
- Grensprojek (North-West University, Potchefstroom)
- LIMEN group (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
- The Centre for Border Studies (Prifysgol Morgannwg/University of Glamorgan)
- DINO – Diversity in Nordic Literature network
- Writing Cultures and Traditions at Borders project (Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland)
- A Literary Atlas of Europe project
- Ph.D. school Cultures of Differences at the University of Vienna
- Pikene på broen art production collective, Kirkenes
- Chto delat? art collective, St Petersburg
Justin Michael Parks
Studieprogramleder engelsk litteratur (årsstudium, BA engelsk språk og litteratur, MA engelsk litteratur, lektorutdanning), førsteamanuensis i engelsk litteraturvitenskapInstitutt for språk og kultur
Campus Tromsø
Henrik Isak Immanuel Gustafsson
Professor medie- og dokumentasjonsvitenskapInstitutt for språk og kultur
Campus Tromsø
Holger Pötzsch
Professor medie- og dokumentasjonsvitenskapInstitutt for språk og kultur
Campus Tromsø
Andrei Rogatchevski
Studieprogramleder russisk, professor russisk litteraturvitenskapInstitutt for språk og kultur
Campus Tromsø
Yngvar B. Steinholt
Førsteamanuensis i øst-slavisk kultur og litteratur.Institutt for språk og kultur
Campus Tromsø
Visiting researchers:
In September-November 2010, the group hosted postdoc researcher Mari Ristolainen of the Writing Cultures and Traditions at Borders research project, the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. She was a participant in the Border Aesthetics project.
In April 2010, the group hosted Associate Professor of American Studies Camelia Elias from Roskilde University, working on the book project In Cite: Epistemologies of Creative Writing.
For January-April 2006, group co-organizer Johan Schimanski was a Visiting Professor of Border Studies at the Centre for Border Studies, Glamorgan University.
For the month of November 2005, the group hosted a visiting researcher, Carl Klintborg from the University of Växjö, working on a postgraduate project on historiography and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost.
Previous group members:
- Timothy Saunders (Volda University College)
- Anne Heith (University of Umeå)
- Mari Ristolainen (University of Eastern Finland)
- Johan Schimanski (University of Oslo)
- Tatjana Kudrjavtseva (1973–2010)
uit.no/borderpoetics
The Border Poetics / Border Culture research group at the Faculty for Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Participates in the projects Border Aesthetics and EUBORDERSCAPES.