Lene Marite Johannessen
Position
Professor
Affiliation
- lene.johannessen@uib.no
- Phone number
- +47 55582399
- Visitor address
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Sydnesplassen 7
5007 Bergen - Room: 249
- Postal address
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P.O. Box 7805NO-5020 BergenNorway
Lene Marite Johannessen
Position
Professor
Affiliation
Research groups
Publications
Academic article
- Lene M Johannessen (2017). Poetics of Peril. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2005). The Lonely Figure: Memory of Exile in Ana Menéndez' In Cuba I was a German Shepherd. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2004). "The insincere embrace" - Canons and the market. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (1998). Rethinking Our Cultures of Scholarship. American Studies in the Nordic Countries. (external link)
Academic book chapter
- Lene Marite Johannessen (2025). Everyday Utopias—Compasses of Hope. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Lene Marite Johannessen (2025). Microutopias and Everyday Hope. (external link)
- Lene Marite Johannessen; Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Microdystopias. (external link)
- Lene Marite Johannessen (2022). 'Heavenly Days' and Everyday Dystopia in Superstore. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2018). "Aesthetic Imaginaries Emerging". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2018). "Imagining Imaginaries in Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in The Attic". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2018). "Regional Singularity and Decolonial Chicana/o Studies". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen; Ruben Moi (2017). Imaginary. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2013). Russia's Californio Romance: The other Shores of Whitman's Pacific. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2008). The Trails of 'Stories-so-Far:' Okot p´Bitek and Rodolfo Gonzales. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2007). De-Symbolization and the Cultural Act. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen; Kevin M Cahill (2007). Introduction. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen; Anne Holden Rønning (2007). "Introduction". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2006). "Remembering America". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2005). The Anatomy of Exile: David Malouf's An Imaginary Life and Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2001). The Appropriat(ed) Protagonist in Américo Paredes' George Washington Gómez. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2000). The Squatter and the Don, Carry Me Like Water, and Under the Feet of Jesus: Readings of Crisis and Reconcilliation. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2000). "The Meaning of Place in Helena María Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus.". (external link)
Academic literature review
- Lene M Johannessen (2009). "American Literary Scholarship in Languages other than English: Norwegian Contributions 2007". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen; Liz Kella (2008). American Literary Scholarship: Scandinavian Contributions". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen; Thomas BJerre; Liz Kella et al. (2008). "Nordic Contributions to American Literary Scholarship". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2007). "Scholarship in Languages Other Than English, 2005". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2006). Some American Studies. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2005). Norwegian Contributions to American literary scholarship, in "Scandinavian Contributions 2003". (external link)
Academic monograph
- Lene M Johannessen (2020). Site-Seeing Aesthetics: California Sojourns in Five Installations. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2011). Horizons of enchantment : essays in the American imaginary. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2011). Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature [b. 2]. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2008). Threshold Time: Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature. (external link)
Book anthology
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Lene Marite Johannessen (2025). Microutopias and Everyday Hope. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Lene Marite Johannessen (2022). Microdystopias : Aesthetics and ideologies in a broken moment. (external link)
- Jena Habegger-Conti; Lene M Johannessen (2021). Aesthetic apprehensions : Silences and absences in false familiarities. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen; Mark Ledbetter (2018). Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen; Stuart Sillars; Dominica Dipio (2009). Performing Change: Identity, Ownership and Tradition in Ugandan Oral Culture. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen; Stuart John Sillars; Dominica Dipio (2008). Performing Community. (external link)
- Anne Holden Rønning; Lene M Johannessen (2007). Readings of the Particular: The Postcolonial in the Postnational. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen; Kevin M Cahill (2007). Considering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Lene M Johannessen (2005). To Become the Self One Is: A Critical Companion to Drude Krog Janson's A Saloonkeeper's Daughter. (external link)
Conference lecture
- Lene Marite Johannessen (2021). "The Aesthetic Imaginaries of Place, the Place of Aesthetic Imaginaries". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2019). Figures for the Future: The “Abbeville Installation”. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2018). Truth and Faith: Performances of Nostalgia. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2018). "Cosmopolitanism and the Region". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2017). "Imagining Imaginaries". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2017). Aesthetic Imaginaries and Regional Singularity. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2016). Materiality of the Invisible in David Wilson’s California Letters. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2016). Erasure and Retrieval in Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2016). Performing the Past in Chinese Camp, Ca. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2016). Figured Resonances in Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2016). Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic as Site of Cultural Memory. (external link)
- Lene Johannesen (2013). "Shangri-La Recall: Remembering Chavez Ravine". (external link)
- Lene Johannesen (2012). "Imaginaries". (external link)
- Lene Johannesen (2012). "Americanity on the Border: River's Sleep Dealer". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2011). "'Shangri-La Recall': Remembering Chávez Ravine". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2011). The Limits of Transculturation in John Sayles’ Lone Star. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2011). Perpetual Progress: The American-ness of Drude Krog Janson’s A Saloonkeeper’s Daughter. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2011). The Palimpsest. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2010). “The Other Shores of Whitman’s Pacific”. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2010). “The Poetics of History in González’ ‘I am Joaquín’". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2009). “Notes on Folklore as Cultural Memory". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2009). "Sandra Cisneros and the Borderland.”. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2008). The Postcolonial Palimpsest: Hybridity and Writing. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2008). Transnationalism and Immigration Shock in American Society and Literature. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2007). Salzburg American Studies seminar participation. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2007). Tropological Ossifications: The Spatialization of an Idea. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2006). "Thinking about Exile: David Malouf's Imaginary Life". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2006). "American Studies and Deregulation of the Cultural Act". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2005). De-symbolization and Meaning. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2004). Huntington�s Nightmare: The Last Discovery of America. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2004). Autonomy at the End of Time: the Arts and the Market. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2004). The Destruction of Memory in Paredes' George Washington Gómez. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2004). Border Figurations. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2003). "On Methodology in Literary Studies of Migration and Exile.". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2002). The American Canon. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2002). Creating a New Home: Work Migration between Southern Norway and the US. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2001). The Appropriated Protagonist in Américo Paredes' George Washington Gómez. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2001). The Space of Chicano Literature. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (1999). Our Cultures of Scholarship. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (1998). The Meaning of Place in Helena María Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus. (external link)
Doctoral thesis (PhD)
Encyclopedia entry
Introduction
Lecture
- Lene Marite Johannessen (2021). "American Studies in Norway". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2019). “The Future of Remembering in a small town in the American South”. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2011). Introduction: Lone Star. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2008). Amerika som Idé. (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (2005). "Suburbia in Contemporary American Literature and Culture". (external link)
- Lene M Johannessen (1998). The Meaning of Place in Helena Maria Viramontes: Under det Feet of Jesus. (external link)
Non-fiction book chapter
Popular science article
Radio or TV participation
Kompetanse
- M.A., American Literature, University of Bergen, 1994
- Dr.art (PhD), American Literature, University of Bergen, 2001
- Associate professor, English Dept, University of Bergen, 2005
- Professor, American literature, IF, 2010