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Randi Synnøve Koppen is a Professor of British literature at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen. Her academic work spans modernist literature, colonial studies, and the intersection of literature with science and fashion. She maintains an active research profile with continuous publication output through 2024.
Professor Koppen's research focuses on Virginia Woolf and British modernism, Leonard Woolf's engagement with colonialism and totalitarianism, fashion and literary modernity, literature and science intersections, performance and performativity, contemporary theatre, and gender in performance. Her work demonstrates a consistent interdisciplinary approach that bridges literary studies with political theory, cultural history, and postcolonial studies. Her scholarship reveals particular expertise in how modernist writers engaged with scientific thought, political systems, and cultural transformations.
Analysis of her recent publications shows a clear trajectory toward examining political dimensions of modernist thought, particularly through Leonard Woolf's work on cooperative commonwealth and participatory democracy. Her research increasingly connects literary modernism with contemporary political theory while maintaining deep engagement with Virginia Woolf studies. The interdisciplinary nature of her scholarship is evident in how she connects fashion theory with literary modernity and examines the relationship between scientific discourse and literary production.
Professor Koppen has co-edited significant scholarly collections including The Art of Discovery: Encounters in Literature and Science (2010) and The Human and Its Limits (2011), demonstrating leadership in interdisciplinary research. Her monograph Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernity (2009) established her as a significant voice in fashion and literary studies.
Her current research projects include work on Victorian fiction focusing on emotion in industrial novels (Dickens and Gaskell) and the human/machine interface (Samuel Butler), as well as "Text, Action, Space: Performative language and topographical patterns as converging areas in modern drama, prose fiction and film," an interdisciplinary approach to aesthetic and cultural studies. She is associated with the Bergen Literature and Science Research Group and contributes to the research group "Text, Action, Space" at the University of Bergen.
