• 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

 

2025

• Randi Synnøve Koppen (2025). The Politics of Everyday Life: Orwell and the Dispossessed. (external link)
• Randi Synnøve Koppen (2025). Laura Marcus: Rhythmical Subjects: The measures of the modern. (external link)

2024

• Randi Synnøve Koppen (2024). Participatory Democracy and the British Utopian Tradition: Leonard Woolf's Co-operative Commonwealth in Historical Perspective. (external link)
• Randi Synnøve Koppen (2024). Koppen R. Participatory Democracy and the British Utopian Tradition: Leonard Woolf’s Co-operative Commonwealth in Historical Perspective.. (external link)

2022

• Randi Synnøve Koppen (2022). The Loose Mass, The Open Society, and the Co-operative Commonwealth: Altermodernities Between the Wars. (external link)

2020

• Randi Koppen (2020). ‘Down to the last button ... in the fashion of the hour’: Virginia Woolf and the Writer of Modern Fiction. (external link)
• Randi Koppen (2020). Virginia Woolf and the World of Books: the Centenary of the Hogarth Press. (external link)

2019

• Randi Koppen (2019). The Work of the Witness: Leonard Woolf, Imperialism, and Totalitarianism. (external link)

2018

• Randi Koppen (2018). The Negress and the Bishop: On Marriage, Colonialism, and the Problem of Knowledge. (external link)

2017

• Randi Koppen (2017). Remembering Ceylon: Leonard Woolf’s Colony in the Age of Extremism. (external link)
• Ingunn Lunde; Randi Koppen; Margrete Dyvik Cardona (2017). Remaining Relevant: Modern Language Studies Today. (external link)
• Randi Koppen (2017). “We are ourselves fremdsprachig”: Foreign Literature Studies in the Twenty-First Century. (external link)
• Ingunn Lunde; Randi Koppen; Margrete Dyvik Cardona (2017). Editors’ Foreword. (external link)

2014

• Randi Koppen (2014). "The Economy of Emotions: Sympathy and Sentimentality in Victorian Culture". (external link)
• Randi Koppen (2014). Rambling Round Words: Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Broadcasting. (external link)

2012

• Helene Nilsen; Randi Koppen; Jan Reinert Karlsen (2012). Popular science - common ground. A literary critique of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene. (external link)
• Randi Koppen (2012). Samuel Beckett in Bergen. (external link)

2011

• Margareth Hagen; Margery Vibe Skagen; Randi Koppen (2011). Introduction. (external link)
• Margareth Hagen; Randi Koppen; Margery Vibe Skagen (2011). The human and its limits : explorations in science, literature and the visual arts. (external link)
• Randi Koppen (2011). Men, Machines and Money: Samuel Butler's Erewhon (1871). (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

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).

• 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

 

Dr.art. in British Literature 1995. Professor of British Literature 2009.