Linguistic, Literary and Translation Studies

Present-day Scandinavian societies and the role of moral superpower of humanitarian hospitality in the postmigrant condition: a focus on the literature of adoption in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

Bibliography Primary literature: Lee Langvad, Maja, 2006, Find Holger Danske, Borgens Forlag. Lundberg, Patrik, 2013, Gul utanpå, Rabén och Sjögren. Lundberg, Patrik, 2020, Fjärilsvägen, Albert Bonniers Förlag. Tjønn, Brynjulf Jung, 2022, Kvit, norsk mann, Oslo, Cappelen Damm. Critical literature: Eriksen, Kasper Emil Rosbjørn, 2020, “A Great Desire for Children: The Beginning of Transnational Adoption in Denmark and Norway during the 1960’s”, Genealogy, 4: 1-19. Gaonkar, Anna Meera, Astrid Sophie Øst Hansen, Hans Christian Post & Moritz Schramm (eds.), 2021, Postmigration. Art, Culture, and Politics in Contemporary Europe, Bielefeld, transcript Verlag. Hübinette, Tobias, 2004, “Adopted Koreans and the development of identity in the ‘third space’”, Adoption & Fostering, 28 (1): 16-24. Hübinette, Tobias, 2007, “Disembedded and Free-Floating Bodies Out of Place and Out of Control: Examining the Borderline Existence of Adopted Koreans”, Adoption & Culture, 1(1): 129-162. Hübinette, Tobias, 2011, ”Att överskrida ras: En introduktion till begreppet transrasialitet speglad genom transrasiala erfarenheter och fantasier”, Kvinder, køn & forskning, 3 (4): 45-53. Hübinette, Tobias, 2019, Att skriva om svenskheten – studier i de svenska rasrelationerna speglade genom den icke– vita svenska litteraturen, Malmö, Arx Förlag. Ivenäs, Sabina, 2017, “White Like Me: Whiteness in Scandinavian Transnational Adoption Literature”, Scandinavian Studies, 89 (2): 240 265. Ivenäs, Sabina, 2018, “Travelling Home: The Scandinavian Transnational Adoptee Identity on the Move”, Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études scandinaves au Canada, 25: 154-173. Jagne-Soreau, Maïmouna, 2021, Postinvandringslitteratur i Norden. Den litterära gestaltningen av icke-vita födda och uppvuxna i Norden, doktorsavhandling, Helsingfors, Helsingin yliopisto. Osanami Törngren, Sayaka, 2022, “If I Can’t Say I Am Swedish, What Am I? Freedom within Limits of Choosing Identity”, Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies 1 (2): 129-144. Rasmussen, Kim Su & Eli Park Sorensen, 2011, “Minor Subjects/Minor Literature: Maja Lee Langvad’s Find Holger Danske and the Search for Danishness”, Journal of Korean Adoption Studies, 54: 225-249. Sarrimo, Cristine, 2025, “Negotiations of Ethnifying Distinctions and Cultural Capital in the Swedish Literary Field: From Immigrant Writer to Racialization and the Impact of Aesthetic Value, Scandinavian Studies, 97 (2): 93-115. Schramm, Moritz, Sten Pultz Moslund & Anne Ring Petersen (eds.), 2019, Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts. The Postmigrant Condition, New York, Routledge.

In presence according to the planned teaching schedule.

Oral interview aimed at assessing the acquisition of the competences required to achieve the intended training objectives.

Bibliography Primary literature: Lee Langvad, Maja, 2006, Find Holger Danske, Borgens Forlag. Lundberg, Patrik, 2013, Gul utanpå, Rabén och Sjögren. Lundberg, Patrik, 2020, Fjärilsvägen, Albert Bonniers Förlag. Tjønn, Brynjulf Jung, 2022, Kvit, norsk mann, Oslo, Cappelen Damm. Critical literature: Eriksen, Kasper Emil Rosbjørn, 2020, “A Great Desire for Children: The Beginning of Transnational Adoption in Denmark and Norway during the 1960’s”, Genealogy, 4: 1-19. Gaonkar, Anna Meera, Astrid Sophie Øst Hansen, Hans Christian Post & Moritz Schramm (eds.), 2021, Postmigration. Art, Culture, and Politics in Contemporary Europe, Bielefeld, transcript Verlag. Hübinette, Tobias, 2004, “Adopted Koreans and the development of identity in the ‘third space’”, Adoption & Fostering, 28 (1): 16-24. Hübinette, Tobias, 2007, “Disembedded and Free-Floating Bodies Out of Place and Out of Control: Examining the Borderline Existence of Adopted Koreans”, Adoption & Culture, 1(1): 129-162. Hübinette, Tobias, 2011, ”Att överskrida ras: En introduktion till begreppet transrasialitet speglad genom transrasiala erfarenheter och fantasier”, Kvinder, køn & forskning, 3 (4): 45-53. Hübinette, Tobias, 2019, Att skriva om svenskheten – studier i de svenska rasrelationerna speglade genom den icke– vita svenska litteraturen, Malmö, Arx Förlag. Ivenäs, Sabina, 2017, “White Like Me: Whiteness in Scandinavian Transnational Adoption Literature”, Scandinavian Studies, 89 (2): 240 265. Ivenäs, Sabina, 2018, “Travelling Home: The Scandinavian Transnational Adoptee Identity on the Move”, Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études scandinaves au Canada, 25: 154-173. Jagne-Soreau, Maïmouna, 2021, Postinvandringslitteratur i Norden. Den litterära gestaltningen av icke-vita födda och uppvuxna i Norden, doktorsavhandling, Helsingfors, Helsingin yliopisto. Osanami Törngren, Sayaka, 2022, “If I Can’t Say I Am Swedish, What Am I? Freedom within Limits of Choosing Identity”, Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies 1 (2): 129-144. Rasmussen, Kim Su & Eli Park Sorensen, 2011, “Minor Subjects/Minor Literature: Maja Lee Langvad’s Find Holger Danske and the Search for Danishness”, Journal of Korean Adoption Studies, 54: 225-249. Sarrimo, Cristine, 2025, “Negotiations of Ethnifying Distinctions and Cultural Capital in the Swedish Literary Field: From Immigrant Writer to Racialization and the Impact of Aesthetic Value, Scandinavian Studies, 97 (2): 93-115. Schramm, Moritz, Sten Pultz Moslund & Anne Ring Petersen (eds.), 2019, Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts. The Postmigrant Condition, New York, Routledge.

Face-to-face teaching planned during class hours, in the classroom, by means of slide projections in PowerPoint format. Frontal teaching aimed at involving the class in order to develop an informed critical debate on the course content.

Present-day Scandinavian societies and the role of moral superpower of humanitarian hospitality in the postmigrant condition: a focus on the literature of adoption in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

Bibliography Primary literature: Lee Langvad, Maja, 2006, Find Holger Danske, Borgens Forlag. Lundberg, Patrik, 2013, Gul utanpå, Rabén och Sjögren. Lundberg, Patrik, 2020, Fjärilsvägen, Albert Bonniers Förlag. Tjønn, Brynjulf Jung, 2022, Kvit, norsk mann, Oslo, Cappelen Damm. Critical literature: Eriksen, Kasper Emil Rosbjørn, 2020, “A Great Desire for Children: The Beginning of Transnational Adoption in Denmark and Norway during the 1960’s”, Genealogy, 4: 1-19. Gaonkar, Anna Meera, Astrid Sophie Øst Hansen, Hans Christian Post & Moritz Schramm (eds.), 2021, Postmigration. Art, Culture, and Politics in Contemporary Europe, Bielefeld, transcript Verlag. Hübinette, Tobias, 2004, “Adopted Koreans and the development of identity in the ‘third space’”, Adoption & Fostering, 28 (1): 16-24. Hübinette, Tobias, 2007, “Disembedded and Free-Floating Bodies Out of Place and Out of Control: Examining the Borderline Existence of Adopted Koreans”, Adoption & Culture, 1(1): 129-162. Hübinette, Tobias, 2011, ”Att överskrida ras: En introduktion till begreppet transrasialitet speglad genom transrasiala erfarenheter och fantasier”, Kvinder, køn & forskning, 3 (4): 45-53. Hübinette, Tobias, 2019, Att skriva om svenskheten – studier i de svenska rasrelationerna speglade genom den icke– vita svenska litteraturen, Malmö, Arx Förlag. Ivenäs, Sabina, 2017, “White Like Me: Whiteness in Scandinavian Transnational Adoption Literature”, Scandinavian Studies, 89 (2): 240 265. Ivenäs, Sabina, 2018, “Travelling Home: The Scandinavian Transnational Adoptee Identity on the Move”, Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études scandinaves au Canada, 25: 154-173. Jagne-Soreau, Maïmouna, 2021, Postinvandringslitteratur i Norden. Den litterära gestaltningen av icke-vita födda och uppvuxna i Norden, doktorsavhandling, Helsingfors, Helsingin yliopisto. Osanami Törngren, Sayaka, 2022, “If I Can’t Say I Am Swedish, What Am I? Freedom within Limits of Choosing Identity”, Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies 1 (2): 129-144. Rasmussen, Kim Su & Eli Park Sorensen, 2011, “Minor Subjects/Minor Literature: Maja Lee Langvad’s Find Holger Danske and the Search for Danishness”, Journal of Korean Adoption Studies, 54: 225-249. Sarrimo, Cristine, 2025, “Negotiations of Ethnifying Distinctions and Cultural Capital in the Swedish Literary Field: From Immigrant Writer to Racialization and the Impact of Aesthetic Value, Scandinavian Studies, 97 (2): 93-115. Schramm, Moritz, Sten Pultz Moslund & Anne Ring Petersen (eds.), 2019, Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts. The Postmigrant Condition, New York, Routledge.

In presence according to the planned teaching schedule.

Oral interview aimed at assessing the acquisition of the competences required to achieve the intended training objectives.

Bibliography Primary literature: Lee Langvad, Maja, 2006, Find Holger Danske, Borgens Forlag. Lundberg, Patrik, 2013, Gul utanpå, Rabén och Sjögren. Lundberg, Patrik, 2020, Fjärilsvägen, Albert Bonniers Förlag. Tjønn, Brynjulf Jung, 2022, Kvit, norsk mann, Oslo, Cappelen Damm. Critical literature: Eriksen, Kasper Emil Rosbjørn, 2020, “A Great Desire for Children: The Beginning of Transnational Adoption in Denmark and Norway during the 1960’s”, Genealogy, 4: 1-19. Gaonkar, Anna Meera, Astrid Sophie Øst Hansen, Hans Christian Post & Moritz Schramm (eds.), 2021, Postmigration. Art, Culture, and Politics in Contemporary Europe, Bielefeld, transcript Verlag. Hübinette, Tobias, 2004, “Adopted Koreans and the development of identity in the ‘third space’”, Adoption & Fostering, 28 (1): 16-24. Hübinette, Tobias, 2007, “Disembedded and Free-Floating Bodies Out of Place and Out of Control: Examining the Borderline Existence of Adopted Koreans”, Adoption & Culture, 1(1): 129-162. Hübinette, Tobias, 2011, ”Att överskrida ras: En introduktion till begreppet transrasialitet speglad genom transrasiala erfarenheter och fantasier”, Kvinder, køn & forskning, 3 (4): 45-53. Hübinette, Tobias, 2019, Att skriva om svenskheten – studier i de svenska rasrelationerna speglade genom den icke– vita svenska litteraturen, Malmö, Arx Förlag. Ivenäs, Sabina, 2017, “White Like Me: Whiteness in Scandinavian Transnational Adoption Literature”, Scandinavian Studies, 89 (2): 240 265. Ivenäs, Sabina, 2018, “Travelling Home: The Scandinavian Transnational Adoptee Identity on the Move”, Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études scandinaves au Canada, 25: 154-173. Jagne-Soreau, Maïmouna, 2021, Postinvandringslitteratur i Norden. Den litterära gestaltningen av icke-vita födda och uppvuxna i Norden, doktorsavhandling, Helsingfors, Helsingin yliopisto. Osanami Törngren, Sayaka, 2022, “If I Can’t Say I Am Swedish, What Am I? Freedom within Limits of Choosing Identity”, Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies 1 (2): 129-144. Rasmussen, Kim Su & Eli Park Sorensen, 2011, “Minor Subjects/Minor Literature: Maja Lee Langvad’s Find Holger Danske and the Search for Danishness”, Journal of Korean Adoption Studies, 54: 225-249. Sarrimo, Cristine, 2025, “Negotiations of Ethnifying Distinctions and Cultural Capital in the Swedish Literary Field: From Immigrant Writer to Racialization and the Impact of Aesthetic Value, Scandinavian Studies, 97 (2): 93-115. Schramm, Moritz, Sten Pultz Moslund & Anne Ring Petersen (eds.), 2019, Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts. The Postmigrant Condition, New York, Routledge.

Face-to-face teaching planned during class hours, in the classroom, by means of slide projections in PowerPoint format. Frontal teaching aimed at involving the class in order to develop an informed critical debate on the course content.