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Kari Soriano Salkjelsvik

Position

Professor, Latin American Literature

Affiliation

E-mail: kari.salkjelsvik@uib.no
Phone number: +47 55582274
Visitor address: HF bygget Sydnesplass 7
5007 Bergen; Room: 310
Postal address: P.O. Box 7805

NO-5020 Bergen

Norway

Kari Soriano Salkjelsvik

Position

Professor, Latin American Literature

Affiliation

Research groups

Research

My research addresses the Latin American cultural production and intellectual history of the nineteenth century, focusing on the relationship between narrative, Catholicism, and conservatism, particularly in Mexico. I also have a special interest in «cuadros de costmbres» (sketches of manner), one of the literary expressions of costumbrismo that refers to popular short texts depicting local daily scens, habits, and social types published in the 19th-century press.

Until recently, I have been partner in the project Conservative Sensibilities: Literary Imagination and the Press in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (2019-2023 - Vetenskapsrådet ID 2018-01171), in which Andrea Castro (University of Gothenburg) and I have studied how literature and other cultural artifacs articulated positions that competed with the liberal script of progress; not frontally as it is usually studied, but rather infecting life and narrative from within, creating and preserving a conservative perception of the world.

Outreach

Podcast guest:

Månedens klassiker i oktober 2022. Hundre års ensomhet – Gabriel García Márquez. Bergen Public Library. Ed. Joanna Pacula, Robin Van de Walle, and Hanne Rømsing Sæverås. 18 October 2022 (On Spotify and Soundcloud)

Conversation series: Conservative Sensibilities

To be found as podcasts in https://soundcloud.com/conservativesensibilities

"Sensibilidades Conservadoras: Emociones normativas y antinormativas. Una tertulia con Ana Peluffo. " Andrea Castro and Kari Soriano Salkjelsvik held a video-conversation with Ana Peluffo (UC Davis). Zoom conference. 8 November 2021
"Sensibilidades conservadoras: escuela, familia y teatro en el siglo XIX. Tertulia con William Acree” Andrea Castro and Kari Soriano Salkjelsvik held a video-conversation with William Acree (Washington University in St. Louis). Zoom conference. 11 May 2021
“Sensibilidades conservadoras: canon, tecnología y multitud en las sensibilidades conservadoras.” Andrea Castro and Kari Soriano Salkjelsvik held a video-conversation with Fernando Degiovanni (CUNY Graduate Center). Zoom conference, 23 March 2021
“Sensibilidades conservadoras: bandidos, lo gótico y lo sublime.” Andrea Castro and Kari Soriano Salkjelsvik held a video-conversation with Juan Pablo Dabove (University of Colorado Boulder). Zoom conference, 8 December 2020

Digital Exhibition:

Paseo Poético por Andalucía, imagen y verso. Museo de la Autonomía de Andalucía, Sevilla. From 25 May 2021. (https://sway.office.com/ScTDL2AU29biqVS1)

Exhibition: Paseo Poético por Andalucía, imagen y verso.

Ayuntamiento de Estepa, Estepa. 20 Frebruary – 5 March 2018.
Teatro Cómico Principal, Córdoba. 8 – 30 April 2010.
Fundación Cámara Sevilla, Sevilla. 11 February – 12 March 2010.
Museo de la Autonomía de Andalucía, Coria. 7 May – 31 July 2009.

Radio:

"Literary Feasts." MLA "What's the Word?" Radio Program. Prod. Sally Placksin. New York, 2003.

Teaching

I have over 30 years of teaching experience in Norway, the United States, and Spain. In my current position as Associate Professor of Latin American literature, I have been responsible for creating, coordinating, and developing courses at the undergraduate and graduate level (SPLA100, SPLA108, SPLA118, SPLA208, SPLA258, SPLA312, SPLA314, and SPLA315). I have also created and taught SAP100 - Language Students in Work Practices, a course that aims to demonstrate the professional competence that language studies provide through practice in institutions and establishments abroad or in Norway.

As a teacher, I help students learn specific literary and cultural contents as well as general communicative competences in Spanish. The overall goal of my classes is to reveal to my students the literary and cultural production of the Spanish-speaking world. However, I believe that foreign language programs in higher education should foster and sustain continued progress both in theoretical content and in language proficiency. More specifically, I endorse a curriculum desing that aims to anable students to function successfully in a Spanish-language academic context as well as in everyday environments.

Current Ph.D. Advising:

At UiB, I am currently advising Kristine Seljemoen. Her dissertation explores how medicine practices and health and beauty products were represented in the 19th-century Central American press. The working title of her dissertation is "Health and Loveliness: Narrating Daily Life at the Costa Rican Fin de Siècle" and it is expected to be submitted in December 2026.

I am also co-advising Adriana Ramírez at the University of Havana. The working title of the dissertation is 'Un involutarion sollozo de mi alma': el discurso de la sensibilidad en Francisco (1875) and the expected submission date is April 2023.

Defended dissertations:

Gianfranco Selgas: Regionalismo ensamblado. Medioambiente, modernidad y reacción político-cultural en Latinoamérica (1930-1940) (co-advisor, University of Stockholm, March 2022)

Marta Sánchez-Salvá: El caleidoscopio salarrueño: desplazamientos y devenires en la obra literaria y pictórica de Salarrué (University of Bergen, November 2021)

Boris Badía: El neobarroco de la obra poética de J. Kozer: residuos e identidad (co-advisor, University of Havana, April 2021)

Alissa Vik: From nu huayno to música mestiza: New genres, spaces, and identities in contemporary urban fusion music in Lima (University of Bergen, January 2020)

Published teaching materials and articles in the fields of didactics

My interest in didactics and research-based teaching has resulted in the publication of nine articles in specialized journals, as well as two textbooks and one book chapter for the use in the Spanish classroom. In my research articles, I offer alternative theoretical approaches to teaching literature and culture in Spanish for non-native speakers at the university level. These publications reflect my development as a teacher in time as well.

Publications

Many of Soriano Salkjelsvik's are accesible at ResearchGate and Academia.edu

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