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Personalia Name: Einar Bjorvand Current position: Associate Professor in the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages Address at work: University of Oslo, PO Box 1003 Blindern, 0315 OSLO Phone at work: +47 22 85 67 28 Fax at work: +47 22 85 68 87 Email: einar.bjorvand@ilos.uio.no Address at home: Nordraaksgate 10, N-1831 ASKIM, Norway Phone at home: +47 69 88 15 88 Mobile phone: +47 90 63 95 59

Research interests

British Renaissance literature - in particular the poetry of Edmund Spenser.
I am also doing research on the psalms and their impact in early modern England.

Ongoing Research Projects

Commentaries on the Book of Psalms in the 16th century
Metrical psalms in the 16th century
The MS of Matthew Parker's metrical psalter - Misc. MSS No 36, Inner Temple Library

Publications

Co-editor, Olav H. Hauge: Ei bok til 60-årsdagen, Noregs Boklag, 1968
A Concordance to Spenser's 'Fowre Hymnes', Universitetforlaget & Oxford UP, 1973
'Spenser's Defence of Poetry' in M.-S. Røstvig (ed.), Fair Forms, Cambridge, 1975
Co-editor, Askim kirke 100 år, Askim, 1978
Co-editor, William Oram et.al. eds., The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser, Yale University Press, 1989
A. Hamilton (ed.), The Spenser Encyclopedia, University of Toronto Press, 1990. (Prothalamion & Mother Hubberds Tale)
Maleren August Eiebakke, Valdisholm Forlag, 1992
Vi gir oss ikke: Askim 1940-45, Askim, 1994
Askim kino 1914-1994, Askim, 1995
'Brighton Welcomes Norwegian Artists, 1913', in Inga-Stina Ewbank et al. eds., Anglo-Scandinavian Cross-Currents.
Norwich: Norvik Press, 1999. Pp. 343-351
'Spenserian Strategy for Readers: The Faerie Queene, Book VI, Canto xii' in Jakob Lothe et al. eds. Literary Sinews: Essays
in Honour of Bjørn Tysdahl. Oslo: Novus Press, 2003. Pp. 177-184
'Religious Self-Fashioning and The Book of Psalms', in Olav Lausund and Stein Haugom Olsen, eds., Self-fashioning and Metamorphosis
in Early Modern English Literature. Oslo: Novus Press, 2003. Pp. 34-44
'Harry Potter: Avsløring og tilsløring' i Årboka. Litteratur for barn og unge 2004. Oslo: Samlaget 2004. ISBN 82-521-6335-1. ss. 18-27

These pages last updated 26 October 2005