Charlotte Hidle

Charlotte Hidle is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. Her research focuses on rhetoric, political communication, and climate politics. She holds a SYLFF Fellowship (2025) and a Fulbright Fellowship (2024/2025), and is a board member of the Rhetoric Society Europe (2023-2025). Her work examines argumentation circulation across political, bureaucratic, and public spheres, with a specific focus on Norway’s resource rent taxation in salmon farming debates. She combines close readings, digital corpus analysis, and qualitative interviews to explore how affect and argumentation shape democratic deliberation.

Education & Affiliations:
Current: Doctoral Research Fellow at UiO
2025: Visiting Researcher at Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Democratic Deliberation
Previous roles: Mentor at 'Ta Ordet!' and Nordic Speech Fest.

Teaching:
RETOKOM1102 Text and Communication
KLAR1100 Language and Rhetoric in Official Prose
RETOKOM4180 Supervised Reading in Rhetoric

Research Interests:
Her interdisciplinary work bridges rhetoric, digital humanities, and climate politics. She investigates how conflicting values and interests manifest in political debates, media discourse, and lobbying efforts, particularly around environmental issues. Recent projects analyze public participation in climate policy formulation and the role of narrative in shaping political outcomes.

Awards:
- Fulbright Fellowship (2024/2025)
- SYLFF Fellowship (2025)
- Board Member, Rhetoric Society Europe (2023-2025)

Grants & Projects:
Current project: Tracing argumentation circulation in Norway’s salmon farming taxation debates (funded by UiO).
Future work: Expanding digital humanities methods to analyze political rhetoric across European contexts.