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Cathrine Bjerknes

Cathrine Bjerknes

Job title
  • Associate Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 42, 0167 Oslo
  • Office number: Q4069
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 913 22 869
  • Office: +47 672 35 563
E-mail
  • cathrine.bjerknes@oslomet.no
Affiliation

Field of study

Gender and Gender studies   Children's literature   Postcolonialism   Picture books   Sami literature   Queer theory

Research groups

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Bjerknes, Cathrine (2025). Skeiv representasjon i norsk barnelitteratur. Problematiserende og normaliserende synliggjøring av skeive identiteter og familieformer. Bakken, Jonas; Oxfeldt, Elisabeth (Ed.). Åpne dører mot framtiden. p. 252-279. Scandinavian University Press (SCUP).
https://doi.org/10.18261/9788215071237-25-12

Oxfeldt, Elisabeth; Vold, Tonje; Bjerknes, Cathrine (2024). Litterære rettighetskamper i Skandinavia. ISBN: 9788215069302. 238 p. Universitetsforlaget.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4656887

Bjerknes, Cathrine (2024). Sápmi, tapt og funnet: voldtekt, eksotisme og jakten på samiske røtter i Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (2007) av Vendela Vida og Og sådan blev det (2011) av Maren Uthaug. Oxfeldt, Elisabeth; Vold, Tonje; Bjerknes, Cathrine (Ed.). Universitetsforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.18261/9788215069296-24-04

Bjerknes, Cathrine (2023). Queer Narratives in Nordic Sami Literature: Coming-Out Narratives and Final Exposures in Savior of the Lost Children (2008) and Himlabrand (2021). NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. Vol. 31.
https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2023.2207040

Heuvel-Panhuizen, Marja Van den; Elia, Iliada; Madsen, Dag Oskar; Deliyianni, Eleni; Bjerknes, Cathrine (2022). Early childhood teachers’ awareness of the characteristics of picture books for learning mathematics. Hodgen, Jeremy; Geraniou, Eirini; Bolondi, Giorgio; Feretti, Federica; Ferretti, Federica (Ed.). Proceedings of the 12th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME12). p. 2282-2283. European Society for Research in Mathematics Education.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4561699

Bjerknes, Cathrine (2017). Tracing the Artic crime scene. Hansson, Heidi; Ryall, Anka (Ed.). Arctic Modernities. The Environmental, the Exotic and the Everyday. p. 292-311. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3331584



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Research reports

Bjerknes, Cathrine ; Gaasland, Rolf (2021). Hybride heltinner i det litterære Arktis. Dekolonialitet, interseksjonalitet og økokritikk i Nelvana of the Northern Lights (1941 - 1947), White Heat (2011) og Kautokeino, en blodig kniv (2012). UiT Norges arktiske universitet.
https://hdl.handle.net/10037/22736



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Dissemination

Bjerknes, Cathrine (2025). Queering Sápmi, Queering Nuuk: Polyphony, Silence, and Queer Resistance in Arctic Storytelling. G25 Feministiska koalitioner för levbara världar: hur, var och för vem? . Forum för genusforskning (FGF) og emnet genusvetenskap vid Gaskeuniversiteete/Mittuniversitetet..
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5365468

Bjerknes, Cathrine (2025). Queering Sápmi, Queering Nuuk: Norm-Breaking Potentials in Homo Sapienne (2014), Hamburgerprinsessa: Skjebnetid (2023), and Oro jaska (2024). Unashamed Citizenship: Minority Literary Voices in Contemporary Scandinavia - Final Seminar. Universitetet i Oslo.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5485437

Bjerknes, Cathrine (2025). Queering Sápmi, Queering Nuuk: Norm-Breaking Potentials in Homo Sapienne (2014), Hamburgerprinsessa: Skjebnetid (2023), and Oro jaska (2024). Final Seminar: Unashamed Citizenship: Minority Literary Voices in Contemporary Scandinavia. Elisabeth Oxfeldt.
https://doi.org/https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/

Bjerknes, Cathrine ; Ingebrigtsen, Tove; Bjørnestad, Elisabeth ; Fløtten, Kristin Anne Østrem; Johansson, Viktor Magne (2025). Aesthetic Approaches to Sami Language and Culture in Preschool. EECERA 2025. EECERA.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3316149

Bjerknes, Cathrine (2025). «Komme ut»-fortellinger og litterær aktivisme i Sápmi. STKs kunnskapsbank - artikkelsamling med skeiv tematikk.
https://doi.org/https://www.stk.uio.no/forskning/s

Bjerknes, Cathrine (2025). Skeiv i Sápmi. Komme ut-fortellinger og litterær aktivisme i De fortapte barns frelser og Himlabrand. Pridefrokost: Skeiv forsknings framtid. Senter for tverrfaglig kjønnsforskning.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4897286

Bjerknes, Cathrine (2025). Literary Activism in Sápmi. Stories as an alternative to violence in Överskrida gränser by Lars Wilhelm Svonni (2006). Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Indigenous Environmental Justice: Comparative Studies in Indigenous Literatures and Creative Arts from Northern Europe and North America. Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN).
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4879104

Bjerknes, Cathrine ; Stork, Hanne Skogvang (2024). Anne-Cath Vestlys bøker utfordret samtidens holdninger til kjønn og mangfold.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3560329

Oxfeldt, Elisabeth; Bjerknes, Cathrine ; Vold, Tonje (2024). "Innledning". Oxfeldt, Elisabeth; Vold, Tonje; Bjerknes, Cathrine (Ed.). p. 9-28. Universitetsforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.18261/9788215069296-24-00

Bjerknes, Cathrine (2024). Barns undring og fabulering. Poetiske og litterære innganger til barns tekster og fortellinger. Barns stemmer. Prosjektgruppen "Barns stemmer".
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4134201



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