Marlene Andresen

Marlene Andresen is a Research Fellow in General Literary Studies at the University of Oslo's Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, within the Faculty of Humanities. Her research focuses on comparative literature, English literature, Modernism, and border poetics, with a particular interest in narratology, cognitive literary theory, and childhood in literature. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Oslo and a BA (Hons) in English from Falmouth University, UK.

• Education:
• MA in Comparative Literature, University of Oslo
• BA(Hons) in English, Falmouth University, UK

Her academic interests include analyzing borders and border poetics, cognitive approaches to literature, and postcolonial theory. She is affiliated with the Border Readings research group and the Literature, Cognition and Emotions (LCE) initiative. Her publications explore themes such as hospitality in children’s literature and childhood narratives in modernist texts.

Andresen’s work bridges literary analysis with interdisciplinary frameworks, emphasizing the intersection of cognitive theory, modernist aesthetics, and cultural studies. She actively contributes to research groups focusing on borders and literary emotion.