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Tone Selboe is a Professor of General Literature at the University of Oslo's Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, within the Faculty of Humanities. She holds a Dr.art from the University of Oslo (1996). Her academic career includes roles as Research Associate at Darwin College, Cambridge (1985-86), Lecturer at University College London (1988-1991), and Professor at the University of Tromsø (1996-2004). She has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley and conducted research stays in Paris and York. Selboe is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and serves on juries for literary awards like the Nordic Council's Literature Prize.
Her research focuses on comparative literature, realism, modernism, and hermeneutics, with special attention to emotions in literary works. Key authors studied include Karen Blixen, Virginia Woolf, Camilla Collett, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot. Recent work examines emotional dynamics in realist novels and urban literature's gendered spatial narratives.
Publications span analyses of Victorian and modernist literature, travel writing, and Norwegian literary figures. She contributes to research groups like 'Aesthetics of Friendship' and 'Novel and Epic, Ancient and Modern (NEAM)'. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges literary theory with cultural and urban studies.
