
Stefka Eriksen
- Forsker —
- Medieval Literature —
- Researcher
Phonenumber: 23355205/ 90707539
E-mail: stefka.eriksen@niku.no
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Department:
- Digital Archaeology —
- Digital arkeologi
Stefka is a research professor in Old Norse literature and cultural history, with academic background from interdisciplinary medieval studies, including Nordic archaeology, art history, history, and literary studies. Her PhD degree is from the University of Oslo (2010), with a dissertation focusing on book history and manuscript culture in France, Norway, and Iceland, c. 1200-1500. The dissertation is published with Brepols: Writing and Reading in Medieval Manuscript Culture.
She has done extensive research and published on varied topics such as intellectual culture and pedagogy in Old Norse culture (see Intellectual Culture in Medieval Scandinavia), medieval cognition and the senses (see Approaches to the Medieval Self), environmental history and eco-criticism (see ‘Reading in Times of Crisis’, Scandinavian Studies 94(2)). Her work is inspired by theoretical paradigms as material philology, translation and poly-system theory, and cognitive theory.
She was the Principal Investigator of the research project ‘The Self in Social Spaces’ (2016–2020), funded by the Research Council of Norway.
She is currently working on several book and research projects:
- Minds and Mentalizing in Old Norse Culture (monograph)
- Globalisering, statsdannelse og litteratur i middelalderens Norge [Globalization, State Formation, and Literature in Medieval Norway] (monograph )
- Det Gamle Oslo, 1000–1624 [Medieval Oslo] (ed. with Egil L. Bauer, Morten Stige, Håvard Hegdal), forthcoming with Cappelen Damm (interdisciplinary anthology; ca. 35 authors)
- Sound Cultures in the Medieval North (research project)
- Notions of Energy in the Medieval North (research project)
Selected publications from Cristin:
Cancel Culture in the Middle Ages Projecting and Negating Minds in Old Norse Literature
Eriksen, Stefka Georgieva.
- 2022
- European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
- Academic article
Readings in Times of Crisis: New Interpretations of Stories about the Settlement of Iceland
Eriksen, Stefka Georgieva.
- 2022
- Scandinavian Studies
- Academic article
Physical and Spiritual Travel across the Christian Storyworld: Leidarvisir, an Old Norse Itinerary to Jerusalem
Eriksen, Stefka Georgieva.
- 2021
- Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Castles of the Mind in Old Norse Culture: Archeological and Literary Evidence of St. Clement’s Church in Niðaróss
Eriksen, Stefka Georgieva.
- 2021
- Environmental Archaeology
- Academic article
Approaches to the Medieval Self. Representations and Conceptualizations of the Self in the Textual and Material Culture of Western Scandinavia, c. 800–1500
Eriksen, Stefka Georgieva; Holmqvist, Karen Langsholt; Bandlien, Bjørn.
- 2020
- Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter)
- Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Middelalderens prosalitteratur
Eriksen, Stefka Georgieva.
- 2020
- Academic chapter/article/Conference paper