Randi Synnøve Koppen

Position

Professor, British literature

Affiliation

Research
  • Virginia Woolf and British modernism
  • Leonard Woolf, colonialism and totalitarianism
  • Modernism and Colonialism
  • Fashion and literary modernity
  • Literature and science
  • Performance and performativity
  • Contemporary theatre
  • Gender in performance

 

Publications
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2022
2020
2019
2018
2017
2014
2012
2011
2010
2009

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Monographs

Scenes of Infidelity: Feminism in the Theatre (Solum Press, 1997)

Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernity (Edinburgh University Press, 2009; pb. 2011). See

http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748638727

http://res.oxfordjournals.org/content/61/251/659/full

Edited collections (with Margareth Hagen and Margery Vibe Skagen)

The Art of Discovery: Encounters in Literature and Science (Aarhus University Press, 2010). See

http://www.unipress.dk/en-gb/Item.aspx?sku=2434

http://www.bsls.ac.uk/reviews/general-and-theory/margareth-hagen-randi-koppen-and-margery-vibe-skagen-eds-the-art-of-discovery-encounters

The Human and Its Limits (Spartacus, 2011; forthcoming)

Scholarly articles

Professor Koppen has published internationally on literature and science, contemporary drama and modernist fiction. International publications include articles in Modern Drama (35, 1992) and New Literary History (28.4, 1997 and 32.2, 2001), as well as contributions to Woolf and the Art of Exploration and Woolfian Boundaries, Selected Papers of the Annual International Woolf Conferences in 2005 and 2006 (Clement University Press). Current projects are within Victorian fiction, addressing the role of emotion in the industrial novel (Dickens and Gaskell) and the human/machine interface (Samuel Butler).

Projects
  • Narrative, Memory, History: Reading Legacies of Totalitarianism
  • Text, Action, Space: Performative language and topographical patterns as converging areas in modern drama, prose fiction and film. An Inter-Disciplinary Approach to Aesthetic and Cultural Studies  https://www.uib.no/fg/teksthandlingrom