Ingunn Lunde

Ingunn Lunde is a full-time Professor of Russian at the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway. She also holds a part-time (20%) Professor II position in Russian literature and culture at the University of Tromsø (2012–2019).

• Research Focus: Russian sociolinguistics, Slavic medieval culture, 19th–21st-century Russian literature, Byzantine hagiography, and digital media.
• Leadership: Head of the Research Group for Contemporary Russia at the University of Bergen.
• Projects: Principal Investigator for Landslide of the Norm (2005–2008) and The Future of Russian (2008–2013), funded by the Research Council of Norway.

Publications: 85 works including 3 monographs, 56 articles, and 13 edited books. Notable works: Language on Display (2018), Fragmenter av fortid (2019), and Digital Russia (2014). Founding editor of the Slavica Bergensia book series (2000–present).

• Scientific Awards:
  • Ugleprisen (2020)
  • FUND-status (2019)
  • Spurveugleprisen (2017)
  • Fellowship at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2014/15)
  • Meltzer Prize for Young Researchers (2000)
• Outreach: Regular public speaker, media commentator, and contributor to the Great Norwegian Encyclopaedia on Russian literature.