Academic interests
- Enlightenment (Immanuel Kant)
- Phenomenology and Existentialism (Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers)
- Political philosophy (Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, Hannah Arendt), interdisciplinary studies in literature and philosophy
Work in progress
- Hannah Arendt – to be at home in the world. Intellectual Biography, Vidar Forlag, Oslo.
Selected teaching
Hannah Arendt - Wordliness, Plurality and Education. PhD course May 2014
"On Humantiy in Dark Times" - a seminar on Hannah Arendt 30./31. oct. 2014
2008 Lecture Series on Hannah Arendt, Oslo College, Department of Social Sciences: Hannah Arendt - To be at home in the world
2006 PhD Seminar, Hannah Arendt: “Responsibility and Judgment – Between Ethics and Politics,” Ethics Programme, University of Oslo, September 25-29
Educational Background
- Master's degree in Philosophy, University of Oslo 2005
- Dr. Art in German literature, University of Tromsø 1996
Work Experience
- 2009- Norwegian Government Grant
- 2007 Visiting Professor, University of Ljubljana/ Slovenia
- 2004 Associate Professor (substitute), ILOS, University of Oslo
- 2003 Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Copenhagen
- 2002 Kluge fellow, John W. Kluge-Centre, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
- 1999-02 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Germanic Literatures and Languages, University of Oslo
Collaborative Projects
- Collaboration with Sissel Lægreid (UiB) : Herta Müller anthology (Tiden norsk forlag)
- Collaboration with Lene Auestad (IFIKK, UiO) : Hannah Arendt anthology (Tapir academic press)
Appointments
- 2007/08 Visiting professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Ljubljana/ Slovenia.