Dr.gerd Karin Bjørhovde
Professor
Department of Language and Culture
University of Tromso
Norway
Biography
"Head of the KIF Committee, appointed by the Ministry of Education 2007-2014. (KIF = Committee for Integration Measures - Women in Research 2007-2010, Gender Equality Committee for Research 2010-2014). Deputy Director of the Center for Basic Research / Center for Advanced Study 2004-2013. Prorektor University of Tromsø 2002-2008. Awards:Troms County Equality Prize 1993,University of Tromsø Gender Equality Prize 1998"
Research Interest
Women as writers / women's perspectives on literature, women's contribution to the development of the English-language novel,Canadian literature / Northern region perspective on literature,Postcolonial literature,Border poetics / boundary perspectives on literature,Female writers as modernists.
