Duke's Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature

 

PAL Visiting Scholars

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Spring 2010 Christine Hamm (Nordic Studies, Bergen), was PAL's visiting scholar during Spring 2010. Christine Hamm is associate professor at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. She regularly teaches courses in literary theory, gender studies and Scandinavian literature. She has published a book on the novels of marriage written by the Norwegian naturalist writer Amalie Skram, which is mainly inspired by Stanley Cavell’s work on melodrama. She has also coedited a collection of articles that include queer-readings of literary texts. Her current project focuses on motherhood in Sigrid Undset’s writings.