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Unni Langås is a Professor at the University of Agder, affiliated with the Department of Nordic and Media Studies. Her work spans Nordic literature, with a focus on 19th, 20th, and 21st-century Norwegian literature, exploring themes such as the body, trauma, text-image relationships, and memory studies. She leads the PhD specialization in literary studies and has taught at all levels of Nordic literature.
- Current research: Unfinished Past. Norway and the Second World War in Contemporary Aesthetic Memory Culture
- Recent publications: War criminals in today's aesthetic memory culture (2024) and War memories in contemporary literature (2023)
- Editorial roles: Member of the Riksbanken Jubilee Fund (2019-2022), board member of the Center for Basic Research (2016-2024)
- Academic affiliations: Agder Academy of Sciences, Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences, Royal Society of Science and Literature (Gothenburg)
Her research interests lie in memory studies, trauma narratives, and literary representations of WWII and July 22 attacks. She examines how contemporary Nordic literature processes historical trauma through postmemory, gender performativity, and interdisciplinary approaches. Publications often intersect with text-image studies and ethical questions about war legacies.
Selected scientific work includes analyses of Jon Fosse's drama, Michael Cunningham's The Hours, and Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives, with a focus on hauntology, ekphrasis, and democratic consciousness in war narratives. She collaborates frequently, including co-edited volumes like Terrorizing Images: Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature (2020).
