Roar Lishaugen Adjunct teacher of Czech
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Name and title: Roar LishaugenAdjunct teacher of Czech
Workplace: Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German Länk till annan webbplats.
About me
PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures (2009) from the Department of Slavic Languages (Department of Languages and Literatures) at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Adjunct teacher of Czech at the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages, Finnish, Dutch and German since 1 January 2022.
Born and raised in Norway, I have an academic background from the University of Oslo, Norway, and Charles University in Prague. I received my PhD with a dissertation on a trilogy of novels by the Czech author Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic from the perspectives of narratology and reception theory. After completing my PhD, I taught Czech language and Czech and Central European literature, culture and history at the University of Gothenburg (–2011), Charles University in Prague (2009–2010), the University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic (2015–2019), and the University of Oslo (2011–2022).
Memberships
- Member of Svenska slavistförbundet
- Member of Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)
I have taught Czech Studies at various universities in Norway, Sweden and the Czech Republic since 1999 and have extensive experience in teaching Czech language, literature, culture and history, including supervising MA theses and a PhD dissertation.
My research interests focus on Czech literature and culture, Central European cultural history, book history and the history of reading. I have published on Czech literature from the fin-de-siècle period, on literature and queer theory, on Czech homoerotic literature from the interwar period, and on literature and reception theory, especially the theories of the Prague School.
In recent years, I have increasingly worked on issues related to book and reading culture in Czechoslovakia and Central Europe under communism, most recently with a particular interest in paper as a strategic raw material and political tool.
I am currently involved in the project De-Centering the History of Reading. The Perspective of the Czech Lands 1750-2021 (2020–2024) at the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences with a study of Czech secondary school students’ reading journals of from the period 1948–1968. Earlier, I took part in the project READ-IT (2018–2021), which involved developing a search tool to identify and contextualise reading experiences in digitised materials from the 18th to the 21st centuries.
Recent publications
Lishaugen, Roar, and Jiřina Šmejkalová. 2023. “Sites of Book Memory. Czech Home Libraries under the Communist Regime (1948–1989)”. Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, 7:1, 25–45.
Lishaugen, Roar. 2023. ”’La loro opera ci insegna a guardare correttamente al nostro passato’. La lettura di massa dei classici nazionali nella Cecoslovacchia stalinista”. Braida, L. and B. Ouvry-Vial (eds.). Leggere in Europa: Testi, forme, pratiche (secoli XVIII-XXI). Roma: Carocci, 377–389.
For a full list of publications and collaborations before 2022, please visit https://app.cristin.no/search.jsf?t=Roar%20Lishaugen.