Research interests
- Runology - runes and runic inscriptions from the Iron Age through to the Middle Ages
- Forms of textual culture in the Viking Age and the Middle Ages
- Writing, visuality, materiality
- Identity studies
- Historical media, mediality, multimodality
- Artefacts - with foci on script-bearing artefacts
- Modern reception of Old Norse literature and culture
Background
EDUCATION
2005 PhD (doctor philosophiae) in Scandinavian Philology (specialization in runology and Old Norse philology). University of Tartu, Estonia
2000 Master (magister artium. cum laude) in Scandinavian Philology. University of Tartu, Estonia
CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2020 (May)... Professor of Runology and Iconography, Department of Archaeology, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo
2019 (Sept 1) – 2020 (May) Associate Professor of Runology and Iconography, Department of Archaeology, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway
2018 (March 15) – 2019 (Sept 1) Professor of Textual Studies, Department of Language, Literature, Mathematics and Interpreting, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Norway
2013 (Aug) – 2018 (March 15) Associate Professor of Norwegian Literature, Department of Language, Literature, Mathematics and Interpreting, HV
2008-2013 Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS), University of Bergen (UiB), Norway
2005-2008 Lecturer of Scandinavian Studies, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia
2002-2005 Assistant Lecturer (Norwegian Philology), Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia
1997-2002 Teaching fellow of Norwegian, Section of Scandinavian Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia