Academic

I’m currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo’s Institute for Sociology, with the project “Disease Prestige and Informal Priorities”.

My PhD thesis is entitled Interdependent Discourses of Disability: A Critical Analysis of the Social/Medical Model Dichotomy.

Academic articles, some of which are included in the thesis:

• False dichotomies of disability politics: Theory and practice in the discourse of Norwegian NGO professionals – Journal of Language and Politics vol 10, issue 1 (2011).
• “Is there something wrong with society, or is it just me? Social and medical knowledge in a Norwegian anti-discrimination law” – Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research vol 12, issue 3 (2010).
• “Annerledeshet og identitet” – kapittel i Annerledeshet. Sårbarhetens språk og politikk, en bok i dialog med Julia Kristeva. Gyldendal Akademisk, 2010.
• “Critical discourse analysis, topoi and mystification: disability policy documents from a Norwegian NGO – Discourse Studies vol 11, issue 3 (2009).

I’ve also listed my previous publications, mainly from my master’s degree at the University of Oslo, and located at the intersection of film, rhetoric and linguistic analysis:

• Book / MA Thesis: Film as Commodity (2008).
• “Filmanmeldelsens retorikk” – Rhetorica Scandinavica 42 (2007).
• “Valentin Volosjinov og lingvistikkens identitet” – Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift #4 (2006).