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  My research interests and teaching are generally in American Studies, but also Chicano studies, Postcolonial studies, and more generally literatures of/in migration and the ideological, cultural, social and aesthetic manifestations and negotiations of the en-route as these are refracted in narratives. Currently I am interested in aesthetic imaginaries and their refractions (see http://www.uib.no/rg/ai) in text and image.  

   

  Research stays connected to various projects include visits as Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Literature Program, Duke University (1996-97); as visiting scholar in the Centre for Chicano Studies., University of California Santa Barbara (2000), in the History of Consciousness Department, University of California Santa Cruz (2005-06), the Literature Department, University of California Santa Cruz (2009, 2011) and Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute at the University of Georgia (2017-18.)

   

   

   

 

Teaching includes courses on undergraduate and graduate levels, from the introductory survey course in American literature and culture (ENG122) to MA courses in various areas of American literatures and cultures.  

Supervision of MA theses covers a wide range of topics and genres in American literature/culture, as well as some areas of American popular culture studies. I currently also supervise two PhD projects. 

 

Konferanseforedrag

• Lene M Johannessen (2010). “The Other Shores of Whitman’s Pacific”. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2019). Figures for the Future: The “Abbeville Installation”. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2008). Transnationalism and Immigration Shock in American Society and Literature. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2011). The Limits of Transculturation in John Sayles’ Lone Star. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2002). Creating a New Home: Work Migration between Southern Norway and the US. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2001). The Space of Chicano Literature. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (1999). Our Cultures of Scholarship. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (1998). The Meaning of Place in Helena María Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2018). "Cosmopolitanism and the Region". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2009). “Notes on Folklore as Cultural Memory". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2009). "Sandra Cisneros and the Borderland.”. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene Marite Johannessen (2021). "The Aesthetic Imaginaries of Place, the Place of Aesthetic Imaginaries". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2017). "Imagining Imaginaries". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2017). Aesthetic Imaginaries and Regional Singularity. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2018). Truth and Faith: Performances of Nostalgia. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2004). Autonomy at the End of Time: the Arts and the Market. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2004). Border Figurations. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2006). "Thinking about Exile: David Malouf's Imaginary Life". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2006). "American Studies and Deregulation of the Cultural Act". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene Johannesen (2012). "Americanity on the Border: River's Sleep Dealer". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2008). The Postcolonial Palimpsest: Hybridity and Writing. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2011). "'Shangri-La Recall': Remembering Chávez Ravine". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2011). The Palimpsest. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2004). Huntington�s Nightmare: The Last Discovery of America. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2005). De-symbolization and Meaning. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2016). Performing the Past in Chinese Camp, Ca. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2016). Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic as Site of Cultural Memory. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2001). The Appropriated Protagonist in Américo Paredes' George Washington Gómez. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2007). Salzburg American Studies seminar participation. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2007). Tropological Ossifications: The Spatialization of an Idea. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene Johannesen (2012). "Imaginaries". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2010). “The Poetics of History in González’ ‘I am Joaquín’". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2011). Perpetual Progress: The American-ness of Drude Krog Janson’s A Saloonkeeper’s Daughter. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2004). The Destruction of Memory in Paredes' George Washington Gómez. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2016). Materiality of the Invisible in David Wilson’s California Letters. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2016). Erasure and Retrieval in Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2016). Figured Resonances in Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2002). The American Canon. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene Johannesen (2013). "Shangri-La Recall: Remembering Chavez Ravine". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2003). "On Methodology in Literary Studies of Migration and Exile.". (ekstern lenke)

Populærvitenskapelig artikkel

• Lene M Johannessen (2002). Grenseland i meksikansk-amerikansk litteratur. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2008). Amerikas Historier: på Langs. (ekstern lenke)

Kapittel i fagbok

• Lene M Johannessen (2013). "Folklore and Cultural Memory: Promises and Pitfalls". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2019). Materiality of the Invisible in David Wilson’s “California Letters”. (ekstern lenke)

Antologi

• Asbjørn Grønstad; Lene M Johannessen (2005). To Become the Self One Is: A Critical Companion to Drude Krog Janson's A Saloonkeeper's Daughter. (ekstern lenke)
• Jena Habegger-Conti; Lene M Johannessen (2021). Aesthetic apprehensions : Silences and absences in false familiarities. (ekstern lenke)
• Anne Holden Rønning; Lene M Johannessen (2007). Readings of the Particular: The Postcolonial in the Postnational. (ekstern lenke)
• Asbjørn Grønstad; Lene Marite Johannessen (2022). Microdystopias : Aesthetics and ideologies in a broken moment. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen; Kevin M Cahill (2007). Considering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen; Stuart Sillars; Dominica Dipio (2009). Performing Change: Identity, Ownership and Tradition in Ugandan Oral Culture. (ekstern lenke)
• Asbjørn Grønstad; Lene Marite Johannessen (2025). Microutopias and Everyday Hope. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen; Stuart John Sillars; Dominica Dipio (2008). Performing Community. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen; Mark Ledbetter (2018). Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig bokkapittel

• Lene M Johannessen (2013). Russia's Californio Romance: The other Shores of Whitman's Pacific. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen; Anne Holden Rønning (2007). "Introduction". (ekstern lenke)
• Asbjørn Grønstad; Lene Marite Johannessen (2026). Microutopias and Everyday Hope. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen; Kevin M Cahill (2007). Introduction. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen; Ruben Moi (2017). Imaginary. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2018). "Imagining Imaginaries in Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in The Attic". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2000). The Squatter and the Don, Carry Me Like Water, and Under the Feet of Jesus: Readings of Crisis and Reconcilliation. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2000). "The Meaning of Place in Helena María Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus.". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2006). "Remembering America". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2007). De-Symbolization and the Cultural Act. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2008). The Trails of 'Stories-so-Far:' Okot p´Bitek and Rodolfo Gonzales. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2018). "Aesthetic Imaginaries Emerging". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene Marite Johannessen (2025). Everyday Utopias—Compasses of Hope. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2005). The Anatomy of Exile: David Malouf's An Imaginary Life and Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2001). The Appropriat(ed) Protagonist in Américo Paredes' George Washington Gómez. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene Marite Johannessen; Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Microdystopias. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2018). "Regional Singularity and Decolonial Chicana/o Studies". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene Marite Johannessen (2022). 'Heavenly Days' and Everyday Dystopia in Superstore. (ekstern lenke)

Deltakelse i radio eller TV

• Lene M Johannessen (2002). Meksikansk amerikansk litteratur. (ekstern lenke)

Forelesning

• Lene M Johannessen (2019). “The Future of Remembering in a small town in the American South”. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (1998). The Meaning of Place in Helena Maria Viramontes: Under det Feet of Jesus. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2008). Amerika som Idé. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene Marite Johannessen (2021). "American Studies in Norway". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2005). "Suburbia in Contemporary American Literature and Culture". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2011). Introduction: Lone Star. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig monografi

• Lene M Johannessen (2011). Horizons of enchantment : essays in the American imaginary. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2020). Site-Seeing Aesthetics: California Sojourns in Five Installations. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2011). Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature [b. 2]. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2008). Threshold Time: Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature. (ekstern lenke)

Doktorgradsavhandling

• Lene M Johannessen (2002). The Passage of Crisis: Threshold Time in Chicano LIterature. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig litteraturgjennomgang

• Lene M Johannessen (2007). "Scholarship in Languages Other Than English, 2005". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen; Liz Kella (2008). American Literary Scholarship: Scandinavian Contributions". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2006). Some American Studies. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2005). Norwegian Contributions to American literary scholarship, in "Scandinavian Contributions 2003". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen; Thomas BJerre; Liz Kella et al. (2008). "Nordic Contributions to American Literary Scholarship". (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2009). "American Literary Scholarship in Languages other than English: Norwegian Contributions 2007". (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig artikkel

• Lene M Johannessen (2017). Poetics of Peril. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (1998). Rethinking Our Cultures of Scholarship. American Studies in the Nordic Countries. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2004). "The insincere embrace" - Canons and the market. (ekstern lenke)
• Lene M Johannessen (2005). The Lonely Figure: Memory of Exile in Ana Menéndez' In Cuba I was a German Shepherd. (ekstern lenke)

Innledning

• Jena Habegger-Conti; Lene M Johannessen (2021). Apprehending Aesthetic Apprehensions. (ekstern lenke)

Leksikonartikkel

• Lene M Johannessen (2004). amerikanske forfattere. (ekstern lenke)

Se en full oversikt over publikasjoner i Cristin

 

 

In Progress:

Book project: Aesthetics of Critical Regionalism

Essay: "Aesthetic Justice and Figuration of the Possible"

Forthcoming:

Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment. Edited with Asbjørn Grønstad. (Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield 2022) 

 

BOOKS:

Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silences and Absences in False Familiarities. Edited with Jena Habegger-Conti. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, “Transforming Literary Studies,” 2021

Site-Seeing Aesthetics: California Sojourns in Five Installations. Leiden, Brill, "Spatial Practices," 2020 

Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries. Edited with Mark Ledbetter. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, “Transforming Literary Studies,” 2018

Horizons of Enchantment: Essays in the American Imaginary, University Press of New England, 2011

Performing Change: Identity, Ownership and Tradition in Ugandan Oral Culture. Eds. Dominica Dipio, Lene Johannessen, Stuart Sillars. Oslo: Novus, 2009

Performing Community: Essays on Ugandan Oral Culture. Eds. Dominica Dipio, Lene Johannessen, Stuart Sillars. Oslo: Novus, 2008

Threshold Time: Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2008.

Considering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream. Berlin: LitVerlag, 2007. Co-edited and introduction with Kevin Cahill.

Readings of the Particular: The Postcolonial in the Postnational.Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2007. Co-edited and introduction with Anne Holden Rønning.

To Become the Self One Is: A Critical Companion to Drude Krog Janson’s A Saloonkeeper’s Daughter. Oslo: Novus, 2005. Co-edited and introduction with Asbjørn Grønstad.

ARTICLES / ESSAYS (selected):

“Apprehending Aesthetic Apprehensions,» with Jena Habegger-Conti. In Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silences and Absences in False Familiarities. Edited with Jena Habegger-Conti. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, “Transforming Literary Studies,” 2021

«Apprehensive Figurations: Monuments in “Site-Specific Performances. In Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silences and Absences in False Familiarities. Edited with Jena Habegger-Conti. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, “Transforming Literary Studies,” 2021

“Materiality of the Invisible in David Wilson’s Letters.” Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture, eds. Asbjørn Grønstad and Øyvind Vågnes, Palgrave Macmillan. 2019.

“Regional Singularity and Decolonial Chicana/o Studies,” Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies, Eds. Francisco A. Lomelí, Denise A. Segura, Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe, Routledge 2019.

“Imagining Imaginaries in Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic.” In Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries. Edited with Mark Ledbetter. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, 2018.

“Introduction: Aesthetic Imaginaries Emerging.” In Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries. Edited with Mark Ledbetter. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, 2018.

"Poetics of Peril," CounterText, special edition Thinking Literature Across Continents, 3 (3): 2017, Edinburgh University Press, 377–391.

"Imaginary", with Ruben Moi. In Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections, eds. Johan Schimanski and Stephen F. Wolfe, Berghahn Books, 2017.

Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific,” The Imaginary and Its Worlds: American Studies After the Transnational Turn, eds. Laura Bieger, Ramon Saldivar, and Johannes Voelz. UPNE 2013

"Introduction: Folkore and Cultural Memory: Promises and Pitfalls," Performing Wisdom: Proverbial Lore in Modern Ugandan Society, eds Dominica Dipio and Stuart Sillars, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2013

"Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific," in The Imaginary and Its Worlds: American Studies after the Transnational Turn, eds Laura Bieger, Ramón Saldívar, Johannes Volz,University Press of New England, 2013.

"Postcolonial Palimpsest: Hybridity and Writing,"  Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literatures. CUP 2012

“De-Symbolization and the Cultural Act,” Border Poetics De-Limited.Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag 2007: 163-176.

“The Anatomy of Exile: David Malouf's An Imaginary Life and Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay,” Violence and Transgression in World Minority Literatures. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. 2005: 381-397.

“’The insincere embrace:’ Canons and the Market,” American Studies in Scandinavia 2004: 36(2): 77-92.

”The Lonely Figure: Memory of Exile in Ana Menéndez' “In Cuba I was a German Shepherd.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 2005: 41(1): 54-68.

 

"Aesthetic Imaginaries"

"Microdystopias"