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Else Willen Christina Werring is a Doctoral Research Fellow (classified as Researcher) in the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages at the University of Oslo's Faculty of Humanities. Her work bridges literary scholarship and feminist philosophy with a focus on maternal temporality in contemporary women's writing.
Her academic credentials include:
- MA in English Language Literature from the University of Oslo
- M.Phil in Philosophy from the University of Oslo
- MA in Philosophy from University College London
- B.Sc in International Relations from the London School of Economics
Werring's research centers on maternal subjectivity through frameworks of Psychoanalytic Feminism, Queer Theory, and Matricentric Feminism, examining how authors like Jeanette Winterson and Rachel Cusk reconstruct motherhood through Rhythmanalysis and Prose Rhythm. Her work positions contemporary culture as "matricidal" while exploring narrative techniques that revive maternal presence.
Her publications reveal a cohesive trajectory analyzing maternal-daughter relationships through literary rhythm and philosophical poetics, demonstrating how Winterson and Cusk employ "weaving," "bathing," and "birthing" metaphors to counter cultural erasure of motherhood.
Supervised by Bruce Barnhart (University of Oslo) and Fanny Sӧderbäck (Sӧdertӧrn University), Werring contributes to the research groups Aesthetics and Politics and Temporal Experiments: Literary, Aesthetic and Social Modes of Thinking and Living Time, where she investigates intersections of time, literature, and feminist theory.
