Medisinsk sosiologi, velferdssosiologi

In short, I’m interested in first, second, third and multilingual acquisition, syntactic variation in adult and child language, language attrition/heritage languages, and especially how the languages of multilinguals affect one another.

My background is mainly within syntactic theory and monolingual first language acquisition. For my PhD, I investigated the structure of the Norwegian noun phrase, as well as how it is acquired. I collected a longitudinal corpus with three monolingual children between the ages of 1;9-3. In the study I accounted for the semantics, syntactic structure and the prosodic characteristics of early uses of articles and determiners. My main focus was on the phenomenon known as double definiteness. Following on from this, I worked a lot on word order variation, specifically on what determines the choice of word order when such variation is permitted, and how this is acquired. This included work on subject and object shift, double objects, and possessives, which in Norwegian may be pre- or postnominal. Many of these studies were based on elicited production data.

In recent years, I have expanded my work on the acquisition of noun phrases and word order variation to bilingual acquisition and heritage languages, in addition to continuing my work on monolingual children and adults. A lot of my work on multilinguals has focused on how structural similarity may result in crosslinguistic influence, and how it may be a factor not only in language acquisition, but also in heritage languages and language attrition. For example, I have studied subject shift and object shift in Norwegian heritage speakers in the US and L2 learners of Norwegian.

In the future, I want to continue working on multilinguals, including second and third language acquisition and heritage language more generally. So far my studies of heritage languages has been based on the elderly speakers in the Corpus of American Nordic Speakers (CANS) and on various bilingual child language corpora. Thus, so far I have worked with very young and very old heritage speakers. In the future my ambition is to study heritage speakers of varying ages.  I am also planning a project on the effect of the word order similarities between English and Norwegian in different populations, including heritage speakers of different ages.

Critical and discourse analytical approaches to perception formation of immigration, citizenship, and national identity 

The sociology of Othering and belonging 

Green/Ecosocial work in light of Degrowth and resonance theory 

Ethics, resistance, and collective mobilization in a critical moment of climate crisis

Religionsdidaktikk, religion i norsk utdanningssektor, læstadianismen, religion og kommunikasjon/media, samisk religion, religionsvitenskapelig teoriutvikling og faghistorie, diskursanalyse, læreplan- og lærebokanalyse, utdanningshistorie.

I defended my PhD at Uppsala University/Södertörn University 2017. My thesis concerns literature, language and experience in the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In particular, I examine Merleau-Ponty’s reading of Marcel Proust, Paul Valéry and Stendhal in his unpublished course notes from Collège de France 1953-1954. I have transcribed, edited and annotated the course Sur le problème de la parole together with Franck Robert and Emmanuel de Saint Aubert (published at MetisPresses 2020).

2019-2020, I worked on a post-doctoral research project funded by Östersjöstiftelsen, on memoirs from the Gulag Archipelago written by western survivors. In particular, the project focuses on the question of truth with regard to literature and subjective experiences. Furthermore, it explores the interrelation between experience, literary expression and reality in the case of Gulag memoirs.

From 2022, I am working on the research project, Muted Memories and Silenced Stories: Memoirs by Women of the Gulag Archipelago, funded by the KONE foundation. The project examines questions of representation, truth and experience in witness literature written by women from the Gulag-Archipelago.

 
Publications
I. Peer-reviewed original articles

2021. Andén, Lovisa. Literary Testimonies and Fictional Experiences. Gulag Literature between Facts and Fiction. In Studia Phaenomenologica vol. 21/2021. Special Issue: From Witnessing to Testimony, pp. 197-223.

2021. Andén, Lovisa. Being in Language: Merleau-Ponty’s Critique of Heidegger and Logical Positivism in his Unpublished Course Notes. In Chiasmi International, vol. 23 (2021).

2021. Andén, Lovisa. Motvilliga vittnen. Svenska vittnesberättelser från utrensningarna i Sovjetkarelen. In Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap.

2019. Andén, Lovisa. Literature and the Expressions of Being in Merleau-Ponty’s Unpublished Course Notes. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 50: 3, pp. 208-219.

2018. Andén, Lovisa. Language and Tradition in Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Husserl and Saussure. Studia Phaenomenologica, vol. XVIII, pp. 183-205.

II. Monographs

2017. Andén, Lovisa. Diss., Litteratur och erfarenhet i Merleau-Pontys läsning av Proust, Valéry och Stendhal (Literature and Experience in Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Proust, Valéry and Stendhal). Uppsala: Departement of Philosophy, Uppsala University.

III. Edited Volumes

2020. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Le problème de la parole: cours au Collège de France: notes 1953-1954, ed. Lovisa Andén, Emmanuel de Saint Aubert and Franck Robert. Genève: MētisPresses.

IV. Books And Book Chapters

2021. Andén, Lovisa. Selvbiografier som vitnesbyrd i Simone de Beauvoirs poetikk. I Oppløsningen av det estetiske. Kunstfilosofisk modernitet fra Kant til relasjonell estetikk, pp. 189-205. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

2020. Andén, Lovisa. Avant-propos: Pour une phénoménologie du langage : le primat ontologique de la parole. In Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Le problème de la parole: cours au Collège de France: notes 1953-1954, ed. Lovisa Andén, Emmanuel de Saint Aubert and Franck Robert. Genève: MētisPresses.

IV. Other

2019. Lovisa Andén and Franck Robert. Présentation. Le problème de la parole, extrait de la leçon du 25 février 1954. Proust et la littérature. In Chiasmi International, vol. 21: Merleau-Ponty, la littérature et le langage littéraire, pp. 25-28. DOI: 10.5840/chiasmi2019214

2019. Lovisa Andén and Franck Robert. Introduction: The Problem of Speech. Excerpt from the February 25th Lecture. Proust and Literature, translated by Rajiv Kaushik in Chiasmi International, vol. 21: Merleau-Ponty, la littérature et le langage littéraire, pp. 29-32. DOI: 10.5840/chiasmi2019215

2019. Lovisa Andén and Franck Robert. Introduzione: Le problème de la parole, estratto della lezione del 25 febbraio 1954. Proust e la letteratura, translated by Claudio Rozzoni in Chiasmi International, vol. 21: Merleau-Ponty, la littérature et le langage littéraire, pp. 33-36. DOI: 10.5840/chiasmi2019216

2019. Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Extrait. Proust. Une théorie, – et une pratique concordante, – du langage, ed. Lovisa Andén and Franck Robert. In Chiasmi International, vol. 21: Merleau-Ponty, la littérature et le langage littéraire, pp. 37-43. DOI: 10.5840/chiasmi2019217

2019. Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Excerpt. Proust. A Theory, – and a Concordant Practice, – of Language, ed. Lovisa Andén and Franck Robert, translated by Rajiv Kaushik in Chiasmi International, vol. 21: Merleau-Ponty, la littérature et le langage littéraire, pp. 45-51. DOI: 10.5840/chiasmi2019218

2019. Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Estratto. Proust. Una teoria, – e una pratica concordante, – del linguaggio, ed. Lovisa Andén and Franck Robert, translated by Claudio Rozzoni in Chiasmi International, vol. 21: Merleau-Ponty, la littérature et le langage littéraire, pp. 53-59. DOI: 10.5840/chiasmi2019219

V. Reviews

2012. Andén, Lovisa. Review of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Le monde sensible et le monde de l’expression. In The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 341-346. Manchester: Haigh & Hochland.

VI. Popular Science

2021. Andén, Lovisa. Vittneslitteratur och det förflutnas närvaro. In Svensk Filosofi, December 2021. Lovisa Andén: Vittneslitteratur och det förflutnas närvaro – svenskfilosofi.se

2018. Andén, Lovisa. Litteratur och erfarenhet i Merleau-Pontys filosofi. In Salongen, 5th May, (http://www.salongen.no/?p=14619).

2015. Andén, Lovisa. Litteraturen som nyckeln till frihet. In Svenska Dagbladet, Under strecket, 3rd January, (https://www.svd.se/litteraturen-som-nyckeln-till-frihet).

2014. Andén, Lovisa. Människans revolt och historiens revolutioner. In Dixikon, essä, 2nd February, (https://www.dixikon.se/manniskans-revolt-och-historiens-revolutioner/).

2011. Andén, Lovisa. En oavslutad filosofi; Merleau-Ponty efter 50 år. In Dixikon, essä, 3rd November (https://www.dixikon.se/filosofi-merleau-ponty/).