| Thesis handed in: |
Name: |
Title of thesis |
| 2023 |
Sve, Henrik Andersson |
To make and unmake souls: Fiction as a tool for dehumanisation and rehumanisation |
| 2023 |
Næss, Patrick |
The "Blackness of Blackness". The city and identity in Toni Morrison’s Jazz and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man |
| 2023 |
Rodrigues, Cassia Djamila Torres de Melo |
Finding the Self through Travel: A Psychoanalytic Analysis of Self-Discovery and Transformation in Travel Writing |
| 2023 |
Franzén, Andrine Østeng |
‘No, she’s not going anywhere’: Subversions of Virtuous Passivity and Condemned Agency in Modern Retellings of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘Snow White’ |
| 2023 |
Auran, Marte Mediaas (lektor) |
Challenging the topics of interracial friendship, immigration, and racism by taking them into the 9th and 10th grade classroom. An analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie´s Americanah and Roald Dahl´s The Big Friendly Giant and how to teach them in secondary school |
| 2023 |
Myrvang, Gabriel (lektor) |
Facilitation of critical thinking and ethical awareness by reading dystopian literature |
| 2023 |
Kristensen, Cathrine Sofie Ekløv (lektor) |
Being at the Centre of a Scandal – Exploring the Complexities of the Sexual Deviant. Queer Counterspaces and their Effect on Character Development and Self-Actualisation in The Picture of Dorian Gray and Giovanni’s Room |
| 2023 |
Lia, Edvard |
Political Forms of Infinity in Contemporary Ecopoetry and Ecofiction: Why We Read in a Time of Crisis |
| 2023 |
Harstad, Emil |
The survival of the eccentric in a hyperreal culture: Media consumption and the public sphere in George Orwell’s 1984 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 |
| 2023 |
Skjevik, Frida (lektor) |
Developing intercultural competence and critical thinking skills through young adult fiction: How Margaret Balderson’s When Jays Fly to Barbmo has the potential to cultivate intercultural competence, enhance critical thinking abilities, and foster identification among adolescents |
| 2023 |
Pedersen, Thea Sofie (lektor) |
Emily Brontë's Confrontation with Power Structures in Wuthering Heights: Connections between Victorian Race, Class, and Gender |
| 2023 |
Svastuen, Renate Kristin (lektor) |
Teaching climate change with young adult fiction: Raising awareness with Alexandra Kleeman’s Something New Under the Sun |
| 2023 |
Christoffersen, David (lektor) |
The Paths of a Witcher: Moral Foundations, Narrative Distance and Choice in The Witcher 3 |
| 2023 |
Hougen, Jørgen (lektor) |
Dyslexia and Minecraft Education. A qualitative study exploring Minecraft Education as a tool for working with English literature for students with dyslexia |
| 2023 |
Hovstøl, Charlotte (lektor) |
Fear in Detective Stories: The representation of crime as threatening or nonthreatening in A Study in Scarlet and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
| 2022 |
Rosenvinge, Elisabeth Hjelde |
Intercultural competence in Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and “Recitatif” |
| 2022 |
Isaksen, Merethe (lektor) |
Reaffirming Victorian Patriarchy Through Gothic Vampire Fiction |
| 2022 |
Minssieux, Nelly |
Ghosts of Literature: Tracing the Spectral in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Mary Shelley |
| 2022 |
Dwyer, William F. III |
Rupture: Exposing the Instability of a State Apparatus Through Poetic Descriptions of a Natural World |
| 2022 |
Jupiter, Michael Xavier Andrew |
These Monstrous, Decadent New Women. Exploring the Death of Dangerous Femininities in the Fin de Siècle |
| 2022 |
Valderhaug, Petter (lektor) |
The Conscious Collective. An exploration of Orwell’s Representations of Individualism within Authoritarian Societies |
| 2022 |
Wijgaart-Van Dijk, Karsten Olav (lektor) |
Preventing radicalisation through reading fiction How reading North of Dawn or The Lines We Cross can teach adolescents intercultural competence and build resilience against radicalisation |
| 2022 |
Skare, Vebjørn Elvemo (lektor) |
Facilitating For a Conscious Awareness of Oneself Through Literature. Using 2001: A Space Odyssey as a facilitator in the classroom for enhancing student’s perspective taking and capacity to mentally time travel |
| 2022 |
Chen, Shuo |
Moments of Being, A Real Trauma Truth of Virginia Woolf? |
| 2022 |
Guttormsen, Tine Kalkenberg (lektor) |
The delusion of Wonderland |
| 2022 |
Moe, Marius (lektor) |
The Cult of Americanism: An analysis of BioShock Infinite’s dystopic Columbia as social commentary on American exceptionalism |
| 2022 |
Skancke, Kristian Terje (lektor) |
The 25-hour Moment: How Pathologic 2 Facilitates Presentness and Constructs Its Ludonarrative |
| 2022 |
Larssen, Martine Horrigmoe (lektor) |
The Penalization of Agentic Female Characters in Literature: An Analysis of The Awakening and Looking for Alaska |
| 2022 |
Berg, Mathias (lektor) |
Exploring Racialization portrayed in Young Adult Fiction |
| 2022 |
Myrland, Camilla (lektor) |
Challenging normality and breaking boundaries of prejudice |
| 2021 |
Hauan, Hanna (lektor) |
Promoting Intercultural Competence in the Norwegian EFL Classroom Through an Understanding of Agency and Choice in Border-Crossing Literature |
| 2021 |
Andreassen, Silje (lektor) |
Fostering Intercultural Competence in Norwegian ELT through reading Multimodal Young Adult Fiction - An analysis of internalized and institutional racism in Walter Dean Myers’ Monster and Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give |
| 2021 |
Hansen, August (lektor) |
Green Wisdom in Grey Futures. An analysis of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Saci Lloyd’s The Carbon Diaries 2015 and why we should teach them |
| 2021 |
dos Santos, Andreia (lektor) |
Fostering Critical Thinking and Ethical Awareness in English through Historical Consciousness |
| 2021 |
Johannessen, Kathrine (lektor) |
Literary Contact Zones in the Upper Secondary Classroom: Using Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age to build health and life skills |
| 2021 |
Malmin, Tiedemand (lektor) |
Creating a Love of Reading Through Young Adult Fiction in Norwegian Lower Secondary Schools |
| 2021 |
Strømsnes, Silje Nilsen (lektor) |
Exploiting Unhappy Orcs & Gullible Hobbits: Colonialism and Oppression in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings |
| 2021 |
Elstad, Martine (lektor) |
Multimodal Young Adult Fiction and Reading Motivation |
| 2021 |
Åsebø, Stian Martin (lektor) |
Gender, sexuality and the quest for understanding in young adult fiction novels featuring transgender characters, using Rick Riordan’s Hammer of Thor and Meredith Russo’s If I Was Your Girl. |
| 2021 |
Christoffersen, Helle Ovedie (lektor) |
Amplified Love in Sarah Kane's Cleansed: A Jar of Nuances |
| 2021 |
Anderssen, Simen Strøm (lektor) |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, a Canonical Representation with an Entry to In-Depth Learning in the Norwegian Classroom |
| 2021 |
Krogh, Ida Margrethe Rask (lektor) |
English Literature and Digital Creativity in the Classroom |
| 2021 |
Kouhestani, Parastoo |
Decadence and Murder in Oscar Wilde's Literature |
| 2021 |
Jensen, Nanna |
"No funk" - shame, violence and the black body: An investigation of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and God Help the Child |
| 2021 |
Jakobsen, Maria |
Expressions of Mood in Cinematic Adaptations of Patricia Highsmith’s novels The Price of Salt and The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| 2021 |
Tverfjell, Hans Ole |
On the creation of tensions between Cot’s fictional autobiography as compared to the encompassing frame narrative in Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl: A Novel by Kate McCafferty. The narrative impact on the voice of a female character and witness, Cot Daley – a suppressed Irish indentured servant in Barbados in the late 17th century |
| 2020 |
Hansen, Marita |
Definers and Defined. A study of the portrayal of black masculinity in the characters and communities in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Paradise |
| 2020 |
Kalinin, Evgeny (lektor) |
The Development of Villains in B. Stoker’s "Dracula", A.C. Doyle’s “The Final Problem” and J. K. Rowling’s "Harry Potter" saga |
| 2020 |
Kristoffersen, Sara Aske (lektor) |
Performativity and gender in Kiersten White´s And I Darken |
| 2020 |
Larsen, Richard Westereng (lektor) |
The Social Contract, Biopolitics and Hurricane Katrina: Two Perspectives from Sarah Broom's Memoir The Yellow House and Sheri Fink's Five Days at Memorial |
| 2019 |
Dahl, Lars Jørgen |
One Nation Under Melville. An Analysis of Nationalism, Imperialism, and Race in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick or, The Whale |
| 2019 |
Ulriksen, Cecilia |
I Am No Angel. Struggles of Identity in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights |
| 2019 |
Svineng, Frid-Oline Tellefsen |
Encounters between Native Americans and Whites in James Welch's Historical Novels Fools Crow and The Heartsong of Charging Elk |
| 2019 |
Tamnes, Bodil |
Narrating the Migration Experience. How can the use of young adult migrant narratives and authentic experience in the EFL classroom increase both knowledge and understanding regarding society, history and adolescent migrant identity? |
| 2019 |
Kalkenberg, Gunn-Laila |
The Hunger Games. A Feminist Approach through Gender Performance |
| 2019 |
Skavik, Katrine Cecilie (lektor) |
From Villain to Hero. The Shifting Social Role of Vampires in Stoker’s "Dracula" and Meyer’s "Twilight." |
| 2019 |
Guttormsen, Tora (lektor) |
Ethics, Democracy and Education in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, and the New Reform of Education in Norway. An Approach to teaching these works in Norwegian upper secondary school |
| 2019 |
Alexandersen, Halvard Koi (lektor) |
Intercultural Competence and Postcolonialism in Nye’s Habibi and Gordimer’s “Loot”. Promoting democracy and citizenship through literature in the Norwegian EFL classroom |
| 2019 |
Johansson, Marie Seljehaug (lektor) |
An Investigation of Empathy in James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” |
| 2018 |
Engen, Nena Katrin |
Orphanhood and trauma in Toni Morrison's A Mercy and Beloved |
| 2018 |
Jensen, Ellen Marie |
Gendered Agency and Subjectivity in Hanna Pylväinen's "We Sinners" (2012) and North American (ex-) Laestadian Women's Life Narratives |
| 2018 |
Baakil, Miriam |
Mobility, Place and Identity in Women's Road Narratives: A Spatial Analysis of Mona Simpson's 'Anywhere but Here' and Barbara Kingsolver's 'The Bean Trees' |
| 2018 |
Tennes, Ragnhild Seel |
The Great Gatsby - flappers and philosophers in the upper secondary classroom. A historical-biographical reading, watching and studying of Fitzgerald's novel |
| 2018 |
Myklatun, Anne |
The Ethics of Proximity in Literature: An Ethical Reading of Immediacy in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Foe |
| 2018 |
Grødahl, Kristoffer |
Fan Fiction and Authorship. Secondary Authors and Their Role in the Evolution of the Author Construct and Canonicity |
| 2018 |
Dados, Kristian Stokkenes (lektor) |
Characterization in Jacob’s Room and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf :A comparative analysis of Jacob Flanders in Jacob’s Room and Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs Dalloway. |
| 2018 |
Normann, Helene Gurandsrud (lektor) |
The Short Story Cycle: A Marginalized Genre for Marginalized Stories. A Genre Critique of Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek |
| 2018 |
Bergstad, Evita Lill |
Uncovering the Obscene in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and John Irving’s The Hotel New Hampshire – A Critical Analysis of Cultural Divisions |
| 2018 |
Liverød, Sara Barosen |
Wordsworth’s Naturalistic Spirituality. The Effects of Romantic Paganism in William Wordsworth’s Poetic Works
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| 2018 |
Eira, Sara Christine (lektor) |
What is a Native American, an Aborigine and a Maori? A comparative analysis of three English subject textbooks for Norwegian upper-secondary schools
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| 2018 |
Løfaldli, Sveinung Benjamin Søberg (lektor) |
Using learning stations to develop student literacy for L2/L3 English learners in upper-secondary school in Norway
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| 2018 |
Egeberg, Martin Stray |
“Where niggers crop on shares and live like animals”. Racialized Space in William Faulkner´s Light in August and Go Down, Moses
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| 2018 |
Forfang, Hege |
Indigenous Women with a Cause. A Character Analysis of Linda Hogan’s Power and Louise Erdrich’s The Round House
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| 2018 |
Haugen, Magnhild (lektor) |
The Child's Perspective in To Kill a Mockingbird and The Kite Runner
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| 2018 |
Johansen, Cathrine Olea (lektor) |
Border Theory: A New Point of Access into Literature. A border-theoretical reading of China Miéville’s Un Lun Dun, The City and the City and Embassytown
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| 2018 |
Isaksen, Simon Berg (lektor) |
Teaching and learning English in vocational education programmes in a Norwegian upper secondary school. Some vocational teachers’, English teachers’ and specialized workers’ evaluation of teaching and learning in the school subject English
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| 2018 |
Leuschner, Nele (lektor) |
"The judges of normality are present everywhere". Some critical thoughts on Michel Foucault’s Madness and Civilization and Discipline and Punish presented through an analysis of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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| 2016 |
Nilssen, Anniken |
Homelessness, Displacement and Identity: Open City and Home |
| 2016 |
Handley, Janet |
Scripting the Witch. Voice, Gender and Power in The Witch of Edmonton (Rowley, Dekker and Ford 1621) and Witchcraft (Baillie 1836) |
| 2016 |
Borit, Cornel |
The New Barbarians Are Coming? A Postcolonial Reading of the Hybrid Identity Construction of London Immigrants in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956) and Rose Tremain’s The Road Home (2007) |
| 2016 |
Rasch, Susanne Lillehaug (lektor) |
Students' Perception of Grammar Instruction. A study of the relation between students' perception of grammar instruction and their multiple intelligences |
| 2016 |
Lind-Olsen, Elin |
Performing Female Identities: Gender Performativity in Charlotte Brontë's Villette |
| 2016 |
Nordjord, Hilde O. |
The theme of the Double in Ian Rankin´s Knots & Crosses and Hide and Seek. |
| 2015 |
Kvalsvik, Raven Arungumar (lektor) |
Remembering Apartheid. Investigating Resistance in Mark Mathabane's Kaffir Boy |
| 2015 |
Johansen, Kathrine Nyborg (lektor) |
Representation of Asperger Syndrome in Contemporary Fiction |
| 2015 |
Horne, Karina Sofi |
Margie Orford’s Hybrid Narratives: Crime Fiction Subgenres and the Theme of Misogyny in Daddy’s Girl and Like Clockwork |
| 2015 |
Frantzen, Marianne (lektor) |
Fistfighting "Super Injun". Reinscribing Native American Literature in the English Classroom |
| 2015 |
Joakimsen, Alice Solhaug (lektor) |
The Apocalypse and its Aftermath. Society, Survival and Accountability in The Road and Oryx and Crake |
| 2015 |
Olsen, Martin Sande |
The Nihilistic Cosmos of Cormac McCarthy's Later Works |
| 2015 |
Mikalsen, Paula Ryggvik |
"But you can't get me out of the story". Feminist Revision of Fairy Tales in Short Stories by Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter |
| 2015 |
Rindstad, Karoline (lektor) |
Narrative empathy in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Home. An approach to teaching these works in upper secondary school in Norway |
| 2015 |
Larsen, Marianne Sagen (lektor) |
Mental illness in literature. Seeing and recognizing mental illness in Conrad’s ‘The Idiots’, Poe’s ‘The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether’ and Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night |
| 2015 |
Amundsen, Victoria Eskedal (lektor) |
Language and human rights in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Never Let Me Go |
| 2015 |
Kirkvik, Anette |
Gender Performativity in The Handmaid's Tale and The Hunger Games |
| 2014 |
Pokorna, Michaela |
Making of Arctic heroes. Charles Brower’s Fifty Years below Zero, Jan Welzl’s Thirty Years in the Golden North, and ideas of Arctic heroism and national character |
| 2013 |
Tangen, Elise Gjerdalen |
“Ariadne and the rest”: Metamorphoses and transformations in A.E. Stallings' early poetry |
| 2013 |
Engan, Ida Synnøve Fjelleng |
Prospero’s Game? A discussion of chaos and control in Shakespeare’s The Tempest |
| 2013 |
Krasniqi, Shkurte |
Identity and Narrative in Doris Lessing's and J.M.Coetzee's Life Writings |
| 2013 |
Bø, Kristian |
Surviving the end: A study of encounters with post-apocalyptic evil and survival strategies in Matheson's I am Legend, McCarthy's The Road, and Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Compendium One |
| 2012 |
Sørensen, Marte Bakkemo |
Places of Evil in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| 2012 |
Mandal, Børge |
Narrative and Ambiguity in the Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner |
| 2012 |
Corneliussen, Eva |
Breaking the Silence: The Influence of Class,Culture and Colonisation on African Women's Fight for Emancipation and Equality in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus |
| 2011 |
Johannessen, Finn-Henning |
Alice in Wonderland : development of Alice’s identity within adaptations |
| 2011 |
Jørgensen, Maria Berg |
Women, letters and the empire : the role of the epistolary narrative in Alice Walker's The color purple |
| 2010 |
Oboza, Alina |
"This odd mix up" : intersectional spaces in Virginia Woolf’s Between the acts |
| 2010 |
Holm, Birgit Kristine Aas |
Sexuality in Toni Morrison’s works |
| 2010 |
Sojtaric, Majda |
“The past becomes an everlasting regret” : the interrelations between past, illusion and gender in three selected plays by Tennessee Williams |
| 2010 |
Woroniecka, Urszula Joanna |
The quotidian, childhood memory and the changing tone of comedy as the elements of Saul Bellow's humanistic vision in "Herzog". |
| 2009 |
Mikalsen, Kenneth |
Nature, identity and Indian survival in Louis Owens' Wolfsong |
| 2009 |
Eliassen-Bakkejord, Merethe |
White exploitation, dehumanization and racial identity : the history of slavery and race relations in William Faulkner’s Go down, Moses. |
| 2009 |
Mathisen, Kari |
"What's happened to this family anyway?" : the disintegration of the American family in selected plays by O'Neill, Miller, and Shepard |
| 2008 |
Arntsen, Ann-Christin |
Turning her life into fiction : autobiography, narrative perspectives and memory in Doris Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor. |
| 2008 |
Berre, Tone |
Variations on a theme : the role of music in Toni Morrison´s Jazz |
| 2008 |
Heggelund, Marte |
Surrogate mothers, surrogate mistresses, and surrogate memories : a comparative study of the re-presentation of the feminine possessed in “The Bear” by William Faulkner and Borderline by Janette Turner Hospital |
| 2008 |
Solhaug, Sigrid Ingeborg |
Telling stories : invasion and isolation in J.M. Coetzee's In the heart of the country and Waiting for the barbarians |
| 2007 |
Monsen, Maria Kristine |
Beyond imagination : the moral versus the aesthetic : philosophical and literary influences in John Banville's Frames trilogy |