Jump to: navigation, search


Marie Nedregotten Sørbø



Specializing in

  • The reception of British women writers in Norway
  • Jane Austen’s work, life and times
  • The reception of Jane Austen in Norway
  • The reception of George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) in Norway
  • Jane Austen in translation
  • Women in the established canon of Scandinavian literary histories


Personal website

Some recent publications relevant for NEWW

  • "Discovering an Unknown Austen: Persuasion in the Nineteenth Century", in Persuasions, no 34 (2012, but came out 2013), p. 245-254.
  • "Jane Austen og tantene" (Jane Austen and the Aunts), in the Norwegian national newspaper Klassekampen, 4.4.2012, p.35.
  • "Bryllup med bismak" (Celebrations with a strange smack), in the literary journal Biblioteket, vol.4/2011, pp.13-20.
  • "The Recluse of Norway in Austenland", in The Female Spectator (Chawton House Library), vol 15/2011, pp.4-7.
  • ‘Kva handlar Austen om; det sære eller det søte?’ [What is Austen all about: the quaint or the cute?] The literary journal ‘bøygen’, no 04, 2009, University of Oslo, pp.90-96.
  • ‘Discovering the women of the past’ [about Chawton House Library] in the journal Språk og Språkundervisning [Language and Language teaching], no 2, 2009 pp.34-37.
  • "Jane Austen and Norway: Sharing the Long Road to Recognition", in Anthony Mandal and Brian Southam (eds.), The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe. London, Continuum, 2007, p. 132-151.
  • "Litterære ambisjoner?" ["Literary ambitions?" a brief comment on the varying reception of Elizabeth and Robert Browning] Morgenbladet [The Morning Post, a national newspaper] 18.5.2007.
  • ‘The Latecomer: Jane Austen in Norwegian Schools’, in Språk og språkundervisning, no 1, 2005 pp.29-35 + no 2, 2005 p.15. (Includes observations on Nineteenth-century textbooks.)
  • ’Portrett av ei dame. Jane Austen i skandinaviske litteraturhistorier’ [Portrait of a Lady: Jane Austen in Scandinavian Literary Histories], in Mellom sann skrift og mytisk røynd. Volda: The series of the Ivar Aasen Institute, no 17, 2004, pp.76-95. (This is a comparison of the reception of Jane Austen versus that of Walter Scott.)


Realized or planned activities/publications in NEWW-context

  • Contributing to the final COST-WWIH conference FEMALE AUTHORSHIP IN EUROPE, The Hague June 19-21 2013
  • "The fickleness of literary history: Jane Austen and George Eliot in Norwegian Reception", contribution to the research seminar "Literature and History: Nordic Angles", 30-31 May 2013 at Volda University College.
  • Principal Investigator in the HERA Travelling TexTs CRP (2013-2016)
  • "A New Persuasion: The Discovery of a Nineteenth-Century Translation of Jane Austen", contribution to the COST-WWIH panel of the Chawton conference "Pride and Prejudices", July 2013.
  • Participating in the International Workshop "Collaborating in networks: preparing future projects", Münster 3-5 April 2013
  • Participating in the 3rd Milestone conference of the COST-WWIH Action, Poznan 26-28 November 2012.
  • "Jane Austen på film: kritikk og komikk" (Jane Austen on film: criticism and comedy), open lecture at Aalesund public library, Norway, 22.9.2012.
  • "Fighting for her profession: Dorothe's Discourse of Self-Defence", SHARP conference The Battle for Books, Trinity College, Dublin, 27.6.2012.
  • "Jane Austen", radio interview, NRK Møre and Romsdal, 28.10.2011.
  • "George Eliot in Norway", paper at symposium, New College, Oxford, 26.9.2011.
  • Participating in the COST-WWIH Action conference Voices in Dialogue, Chawton 3-5 November 2011
  • Participation in the Oslo Research Seminar, September 2011
  • Participating in the COST-WWIH workshop, Belgrade 14-16 April 2011
  • Participating in COST Training School The Hague 11-16 October 2010.
  • ’Translation as Reception in the Norwegian Jane Austen’, at the conference The Author-Translator in the European Literary Tradition, University of Swansea, 1.7.2010.
  • Contributing to COST-WWIH workshop Turku 24-26 May 2010.
  • Participating, as member of the Management Committee and as Working Group 3 co-leader, in COST Action IS 0901 “Women Writers In History” (2009-2013); cf. COST website.
  • Book in progress: ‘Paraphrase and Prejudice’: Austen for Norwegians. A comparison of four translations of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
  • Book chapter in preparation: ‘The Reception of George Eliot in Norway’ for The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe.
  • ‘Jane Austen: Irony or Idyll?’ Visiting Fellow’s paper at Chawton House Library, 11 February 2009.
  • ’Jane Austen i Norge’ [JA in Norway], lecture at the public Research Days, Volda University College, 21.9.2007.
  • ‘”Very little white satin, very few lace veils”: Jane Austen’s Endings’, Tenth Nordic Conference for English Studies, University of Bergen, Norway, 26.5.2007.


E-mail

  • mns[at]hivolda.no


SvD, January 2014



  • Participants > Sorbo

Personal tools