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Tone Irene Brekke

Senior Lecturer - Centre for Gender Research
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Phone +47 22 85 87 43
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Visiting address Gaustadalléen 30 0373 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1040 Blindern 0315 Oslo

Academic Interests

  • 18th century British, German and Scandinavian literature
  • Romanticism
  • Feminist theory
  • Critical theory
  • Literary theory
  • Early modern women’s writing

Teaching

Background

  • Post doc at Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo
  • Guest researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo, Fall 2007
  • Junior Research Fellow, Linacre College, Oxford University.
  • Ph. D. student in Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis, From Oct. 2005
  • M.A. in Comparative Literature, San Francisco State University, 1998

Partners

  • COST: Women Writers in History: Toward a New Understanding of European Literary Culture (Oslo Group)
Tags: Romanticism, Literature, Feminist theory, Gender, Critical theory

Publications

Coeditor of scholarly edition of Wollstonecraft, Mary. Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Oxford University Press, 2009.

“A Cosmopolitan Salon-Hostess: Friederike Brun's Revision of Schiller in Idas ästhetische Entwickelung (1824).” Vol. 1, August 2004.

  • Brekke, Tone & Johnsen, Emil Nicklas (2014). Ikke bare dessert og høflighet: Intervju med Dena Goodman om salongenes sosiabilitet på 1700-tallet. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. 26(1), p. 110–117. Full text in Research Archive
  • Brekke, Tone (2013). "Feminist Cosmopolitanism and Collective and Affective Languages of Citizenship in the 1790's". In Roseneil, Sasha (Eds.), Beyond Citizenship? Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9780230320543. p. 39–65. doi: 10.1057/9781137311351_3. Full text in Research Archive
  • Brekke, Tone & Bondevik, Hilde (2012). Historier om kjønn og Universitet 1811-2011. Innledning. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. p. 93–98. Full text in Research Archive
  • Brekke, Tone (2012). "(S)aa meget bedre skikkede til...de mindste ting": Niels Treschow om dannelse og kjønn. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. p. 99–120. Full text in Research Archive

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