Current fields of research:

• Virginia Woolf and British modernism
• Leonard Woolf and social/political modernism
• Idealist and utopian political thought (1870s–1930s)

Previous:

• Fashion and literary modernity
• Literature and science
• Modern/contemporary theatre and feminism/gender studies

 

Courses in British literature from introductory(BA) to advanced (MA) levels. 

Topics include Modernism and Colonialism, Victorian Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gender studies/queer studies, Modernism and Fashion, Modernism and the Body

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 (Scandinavian Academic Press, 2011)

Special Issue

Co-editor (with Margrete Dyvik Cardona and Ingunn Lunde), Remaining Relevant: Modern Language Studies Today, Bergen Language and Linguistic Studies vol. 7, 2017.

Scholarly articles and book chapters

International publications include articles in Modern Drama (1992) and New Literary History (1997 and 2001), Partial Answers (2019), Modernism/Modernity (2022), and book chapters in Woolf and the Art of Exploration (Clemson University Press, 2005), Woolfian Boundaries (Clemson University Press, 2006), Exploring Textual Action (Aarhus University Press, 2010), The Art of Discovery: Encounters in Literature and Science (Aarhus University Press, 2010), The Human and its Limits: Explorations in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts (Scandinavian Academic Press, 2011), Broadcasting in the Modernist Era (Bloomsbury, 2014), Exploring Texts and Emotions (Aarhus University Press, 2014), Exploring Text, Media, and Memory (Aarhus University Press, 2017), Sentencing Orlando: Virginia Woolf and the Morphology of the Modernist Sentence (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Fashion and Authorship: Literary Production and Cultural Style from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). 

2024

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

2022

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

2020

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2014

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

2012

• Koppen, Randi (2012). Samuel Beckett in Bergen. (ekstern lenke)

2011

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

2010

• Koppen, Randi (2010). Re-thinking the "Performative Turn" : Fashioned Bodies, Sartorial Semiotics and the Performance of Culture, 1900-1930. (ekstern lenke)
• Koppen, Randi (2010). Modernism's Einstein: Wyndham Lewis and the Politics of Science Popularisation. (ekstern lenke)
• Hagen, Margareth; Koppen, Randi; Skagen, Margery Vibe (2010). The Art of discovery : encounters in literature and science. (ekstern lenke)
• Hagen, Margareth; Skagen, Margery Vibe; Koppen, Randi (2010). Mapping, Bridging, Quilting: Tracing the Relations between Literature and Science. (ekstern lenke)

2009

• Koppen, Randi (2009). Virginia Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernity. (ekstern lenke)

Se en full oversikt over publikasjoner i Cristin

Current:

• Micro-Utopias. Aesthetic Imaginaries Research Group

Previous:

• 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.