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2. Kva vil vere fokus for arbeidet p? ILOS, er du knytt til eit bestemt prosjekt?
3. Korleis f?retrekk du ? bruke fritida?
Alessandro Brunazzo
Alessandro Brunazzo is a Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) and affiliated with the EcoLit Research group. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University and was previously adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University in Florence and at the University of Virginia in Siena (CET). Alessandro's main research interests lie at the intersection between the environmental humanities, film and affect theory. He adopts multidisciplinary and transnational approaches to world cinema, Italian, English, French literature, and ecocriticism.
At ILOS he will be conducting the two-year project "That Sinking Feeling": Ecocritical Approach to Land Subsidence in Italy's Po Delta region (Earthsea). The project investigates the ways in which contemporary literature, cinema, and media have actively shaped and contributed to past and present debates over land subsidence in the Po River delta, its causes, and the dynamic transformation of the terrain.
In his spare time Alessandro likes cooking and baking. He has been claiming that his tiramisu is ‘not bad at all’. Nobody has complained yet.
Wassim Rustom
I trained as a mechanical engineer in Beirut before moving to Norway and starting a new path in literary studies. I did a year of undergraduate work and then my M.A. in English at UiO, graduating in 2016. I started my Ph.D. at the University of Bergen soon after, defending my thesis in 2022 and teaching at NTNU for a year.
My project is called “TimeWorks” and it focuses on labor and time in modernist writing. It’s a postdoctoral project funded by the EU through the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions scheme. I’m attached to the research group “Temporal Experiments,” which is co-led by Marit Gr?tta and my adviser Bruce Barnhart.
Free time! I’m doing my research on labor and time to figure this one out. I like to exercise, I practice some musical instruments, and I try to stay curious about topics outside my field. I haven’t figured time out yet; I don’t think this project will do it quite, but it’s a great opportunity to start.
Keyvan Allahyari
I completed my PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2019, where I taught for a few years in the English and Theatre Studies Program. Prior to coming Oslo, I held several fellowships including Teach at Tübingen Fellowship (University of Tübingen, 2021-2022), Fryer Library Fellowship (University of Queensland, 2022), and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (the University of Tübingen and the University of Potsdam, 2023). My first book, Peter Carey: The making of a Global Novelist was published by Palgrave in 2023. I have published widely in areas of world literature, critical border studies, global refugee literature, Australian literature and Indian Ocean studies. Some of my articles have appeared in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, ARIEL (forthcoming), Research in African Literatures (forthcoming), The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel, Australian Humanities Review, Antipodes, Journal of Australian Studies, and JASAL.
At ILOS, I will be conducting my research on the MSCA project ‘The Novel and the Refugee: Contemporary Global Fiction and the Imaginary of Border Regimes.’ This project will be a study of what I call the 'border novel' as a contemporary cultural product that mediates and is mediated by the contemporary border imaginary.
I enjoy cooking, reading and exercising. Now in Oslo, I look forward to learning how to ski soon.