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  My research interests and teaching are generally in American Studies, but also Chicano studies, Postcolonial studies, and more generally literatures of/in migration and the ideological, cultural, social and aesthetic manifestations and negotiations of the en-route as these are refracted in narratives. Currently I am interested in aesthetic imaginaries and their refractions (see http://www.uib.no/rg/ai) in text and image.  

   

  Research stays connected to various projects include visits as Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Literature Program, Duke University (1996-97); as visiting scholar in the Centre for Chicano Studies., University of California Santa Barbara (2000), in the History of Consciousness Department, University of California Santa Cruz (2005-06), the Literature Department, University of California Santa Cruz (2009, 2011) and Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute at the University of Georgia (2017-18.)

   

   

   

Teaching includes courses on undergraduate and graduate levels, from the introductory survey course in American literature and culture () to MA courses in various areas of American literatures and cultures.  

Supervision of MA theses covers a wide range of topics and genres in American literature/culture, as well as some areas of American popular culture studies. I currently also supervise two PhD projects. 

In Progress:

Book project: Aesthetics of Critical Regionalism

Essay: "Aesthetic Justice and Figuration of the Possible"

Forthcoming:

Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment. Edited with Asbjørn Grønstad. (Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield 2022) 

BOOKS:

. Edited with Jena Habegger-Conti. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, “Transforming Literary Studies,” 2021

s. Leiden, Brill, "Spatial Practices," 2020 

. Edited with Mark Ledbetter. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, “Transforming Literary Studies,” 2018

, University Press of New England, 2011

. Eds. Dominica Dipio, Lene Johannessen, Stuart Sillars. Oslo: Novus, 2009

Eds. Dominica Dipio, Lene Johannessen, Stuart Sillars. Oslo: Novus, 2008

 Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2008.

. Berlin: LitVerlag, 2007. Co-edited and introduction with Kevin Cahill.

Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2007. Co-edited and introduction with Anne Holden Rønning.

. Oslo: Novus, 2005. Co-edited and introduction with Asbjørn Grønstad.

ARTICLES / ESSAYS (selected):

“Apprehending Aesthetic Apprehensions,» with Jena Habegger-Conti. In Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silences and Absences in False Familiarities. Edited with Jena Habegger-Conti. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, “Transforming Literary Studies,” 2021

«Apprehensive Figurations: Monuments in “Site-Specific Performances. In Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silences and Absences in False Familiarities. Edited with Jena Habegger-Conti. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, “Transforming Literary Studies,” 2021

“Materiality of the Invisible in David Wilson’s Letters.” , eds. Asbjørn Grønstad and Øyvind Vågnes, Palgrave Macmillan. 2019.

“Regional Singularity and Decolonial Chicana/o Studies,”  Eds. Francisco A. Lomelí, Denise A. Segura, Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe, Routledge 2019.

“Imagining Imaginaries in Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic.” In Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries. Edited with Mark Ledbetter. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, 2018.

“Introduction: Aesthetic Imaginaries Emerging.” In Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries. Edited with Mark Ledbetter. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books/Rowman &Littlefield, 2018.

," CounterText, special edition Thinking Literature Across Continents, 3 (3): 2017, Edinburgh University Press, 377–391.

"Imaginary", with Ruben Moi. In , eds. Johan Schimanski and Stephen F. Wolfe, Berghahn Books, 2017.

Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific,” , eds. Laura Bieger, Ramon Saldivar, and Johannes Voelz. UPNE 2013

"Introduction: Folkore and Cultural Memory: Promises and Pitfalls," , eds Dominica Dipio and Stuart Sillars, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2013

"Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific," in , eds Laura Bieger, Ramón Saldívar, Johannes Volz,University Press of New England, 2013.

"Postcolonial Palimpsest: Hybridity and Writing,"  . CUP 2012

“De-Symbolization and the Cultural Act,” .Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag 2007: 163-176.

“The Anatomy of Exile: David Malouf's An Imaginary Life and Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay,” Violence and Transgression in World Minority Literatures. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. 2005: 381-397.

“’The insincere embrace:’ Canons and the Market,” American Studies in Scandinavia 2004: 36(2): 77-92.

 Journal of Postcolonial Writing 2005: 41(1): 54-68.

"Aesthetic Imaginaries"

"Microdystopias"