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

2025

• Randi Synnøve Koppen (2025). The Politics of Everyday Life: Orwell and the Dispossessed. (ekstern lenke)

2010

• Margareth Hagen; Margery Vibe Skagen; Randi Koppen (2010). Mapping, Bridging, Quilting: Tracing the Relations between Literature and Science. (ekstern lenke)

2017

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

2000

• Randi Koppen (2000). Gender and the Politics of Performance: Feminist Re/presentations. (ekstern lenke)

2024

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

1998

• Randi Koppen (1998). Kroppen som tegn, tegnet som kropp. Om teater og kjønn. (ekstern lenke)
• Randi Koppen (1998). Psychoanalytic Enactments: Adrienne Kennedy´s Stagings of Memory. (ekstern lenke)

1997

• Randi Koppen (1997). Scenes of Infidelity: Feminism in the Theatre. (ekstern lenke)
• Randi Koppen (1997). Psychoanalytic Enactments: Adrienne Kennedy´s Stagings of Memory. (ekstern lenke)

2006

• Randi Koppen (2006). Sartorial Adventures: Woolf and the (Other)Worldliness of Dress. (ekstern lenke)
• Randi Koppen (2006). Real Bodies and the Psychology of Clothes: Three Guineas and the Limits of Sartorial Reasoning. (ekstern lenke)

2012

• Helene Nilsen; Randi Koppen; Jan Reinert Karlsen (2012). Popular science - common ground. A literary critique of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene. (ekstern lenke)

2014

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

2018

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

2003

• Randi Koppen (2003). Virginia Woolfs Indiskresjoner og andre essays. (ekstern lenke)

2011

• Margareth Hagen; Randi Koppen; Margery Vibe Skagen (2011). The human and its limits : explorations in science, literature and the visual arts. (ekstern lenke)

2009

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

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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). 

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