Johan Schimanski
" Professor"
Department of Language and Culture
University of Tromso
Norway
Biography
"Born in Stockholm in 1963 -1981 schooling in England, Botswana, Zambia and Norway 1990 Master's Degree in General Literature, University of Oslo 1993 School of Criticism & Theory, Dartmouth College, USA 1994 visiting researcher at the University of Aberystwyth 1995, 1997, first-week wars, University of Oslo 1997 Dr. Art., University of Oslo 1998-2014 First semester in General Literature, University of Tromsø 2006 Guest professor in border studies, Center for Border Studies, University of Glamorgan 2011 Guest researcher at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis 2014- Professor II in General Literature, University of Tromsø; Professor of General Literature, University of Oslo"
Research Interest
borders and literature,National Identity in Literature,postcolonialism,arctic discourses,literature in Welsh,literary falsehoods,science fiction,genre theory
