Fredrik Olsson

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Associate Professor

Contact

+4769608134

fredrik.olsson@hiof.no

Study place

Halden

Office nr.

Tasks performed

Courses taught

Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 15 ECTS. For information about the programme (in Norwegian).
Modules: pedagogical development. For information about the modules (in Norwegian).

Appointments

Member of the Academic Programme Committee for the programme in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

Research and development projects

Decolonising higher education
Digital literacy and integration of refugees

Other tasks

Excellent Teaching Practitioner (ETP), teaching portfolio, and assessment of pedagogical competence
Teaching academy ("Kunnskapsnettverket")

Background

I have previously worked at the University of Gothenburg, mainly as Academic Developer at the unit for Pedagogical Development and Interactive Learning (PIL) since 2018. I have been a course coordinator for various versions of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 1 (HPE101/PIL101), teacher of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 2 at the Faculty of Education (HPE102/PIL102) , Supervision in Postgraduate Education (HPE201/PIL201), Assessment and Examination (HPE303/PIL303) and Supervision of Theses and Degree Projects (HPE304/PIL304), as well as supervisor in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 3 (HPE103/PIL103) (all courses correspond to 5 ECTS). I have also been the chairman of the editorial committee, which has among its tasks the publication of texts in teaching and learning in higher education, and a member of the working group for widening access and participation.

At the University of Gothenburg, I have taught students since 2010, mainly in the subject of Spanish. I have been a course coordinator, teacher, and supervisor on several courses at Bachelor and Master level, especially within the Teacher Education Programme. Among other things, I have been responsible for courses within the in-school teaching practice (VFU) in modern languages and English, given courses in language didactics, and been a supervisor and examiner for degree projects in Spanish and English. I have also taught Spanish language literature and culture, written and spoken Spanish language skills, translation, grammar, and more.

In 2015, I did my dissertation in the subject of Spanish at Gothenburg University and Universidad de Sevilla with the thesis "Me voy pal Norte". La configuración del sujeto migrante indocumentado en ocho novelas hispanoamericanas actuales (1992-2009) [“Me voy pal Norte”. The Configuration of the Undocumented Migrant Subject in Eight Contemporary Latin American Novels (1992-2009)]. In the thesis, I study the portrayal of undocumented migration to the United States in eight contemporary Latin American novels. A slightly revised version of the thesis was awarded second prize in the competition "Nuestra América" 2015 for the best monograph on Latin America in the subject areas of history, art and literature and was later published in Spain (2016, Editorial CSIC).

The spring of 2017 I spent as a visiting postdoctoral researcher in Mexico with a project on representations of the family in contemporary Latin American migration literature. In addition to my research interest in contemporary Spanish-language literature and literary and cultural theory, I am also interested in language and literature didactics as well as decolonial and norm-critical perspectives on higher education pedagogy.

In 2018-2020 I was involved in the collaborative project OESJ – Open Education and Social Justice, funded by SASUF (Sweden – South Africa University Forum). The project included the University of Cape Town, the University of the Western Cape, the University of Gothenburg and University West. The aim of the project was to develop a theoretical framework based on Nancy Fraser's theory of social justice to analyse the conditions for implementing open learning materials in South Africa and Sweden. From 2015 to 2020, I was also one of the coordinators of VitKrit, a decolonial seminar series within the humanities and the arts, University of Gothenburg.

I am a pedagogical expert (referee) and a certified teacher in Spanish and English for secondary and upper-secondary school in Sweden.

Awards

Second Prize in the competition “Nuestra América” 2015 for best monograph about Latin America within the subject areas of history, literature and the arts for “Me voy pal Norte”. La configuración del sujeto migrante indocumentado en ocho novelas hispanoamericanas actuales (1992-2009). The prize was awarded by Diputacion de Sevilla, Universidad de Sevilla and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

Positions held

Academic developer, Pedagogical Development and Interactive Learning (PIL), University of Gothenburg, 2018-2023.
Lecturer, senior lecturer and researcher in Spanish, Department of Languages and Literatures, 2015-2023.
Senior lecturer in Spanish, Department of Languages, Linnaeus University, 2016-2017.
Doctoral candidate in Spanish, Department of Languages and Literatures, 2010-2015.

Research groups

Critical perspectives on Teacher Education (and Education) – CritTEd

Tags: Teaching and learning in higher education, Spanish, literature, second language acquisition, teacher education

Olsson, Fredrik; Fylkesnes, Sandra & Yri, Jørgen Sørlie (2024). Decolonizing Higher Education in Norway: Critical Collaborative Autoethnographic Reflections on a University Pedagogy Course. Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk. ISSN 2387-5739. 10 (nr 3). doi: 10.23865/ntpk.v10.5918.
Olsson, Fredrik; Bradley, Linda & Abughalioun, Maisaa (2023). Refugees’ aspirations, attitudes, and experiences of higher education and professional life in Sweden. Social Sciences & Humanities Open. 7(1). doi: 10.1016/j.ssaho.2022.100386.
Olsson, Fredrik (2021). ¿Pedagogías sostenibles? Apuntes de un enfoque decolonial de enseñanza-aprendizaje en la educación superior. In Gutiérrez Hernández, Norma; García Sandoval, Beatriz Marisol; Magallanes Delgado, María del Refugio & Castillo Ruiz, Irma Favila (Ed.), Historia de la educación, género y perspectivas docentes. Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas. ISSN 9786079450724. p. 207–216. Show summary
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Olsson, Fredrik (2020). Más allá del 'sueño americano': avances teóricos sobre el mito de la tierra prometida a partir de Entre el cielo y el suelo (2008) y Hot sur (2012). In Dolle, Verena (Eds.), ¿Un ’sueño europeo’? Europa como destino anhelado de migración en la creación cultural latinoamericana (2001-2015) . Iberoamericana Vervuert. ISSN 9788491921684. p. 141–160.
Karlsson Hammarfelt, Linda & Olsson, Fredrik (2019). Migrationslitteraturen och litteraturens migration. Flykten till Europa betraktad ur ett europeiskt litterärt perspektiv. In Bohlin, Erik & Karlsson Hammarfelt, Linda (Ed.), Vägen till Europa. Berättandet om Medelhavet som färdväg och tröskel. Göteborgs universitet. ISSN 9789189608443. p. 31–43.
Olsson, Fredrik (2019). Familia, fronteras y colonialidad global en Hot sur, de Laura Restrepo. In Cota Torres, Edgar & Vallejos-Ramirez, Mayela (Ed.), Fronteras globales. Globalización, literatura y frontera: Una visión a las travesías globales. University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Editorial Artificios. ISSN 9781947921313. p. 47–72.
Olsson, Fredrik (2019). Familia, género y espacio transnacional en Dime algo sobre Cuba, de Jesús Díaz. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS). ISSN 1892-2449. 10(1).
Olsson, Fredrik (2016). "Dad, yo soy una chica americana": Migration, Identity and Language in Eduardo González Viaña's El corrido de Dante. CALL: Irish Journal for Culture, Arts, Literature and Language. 1(1). doi: 10.21427/D7MS3V. Show summary
The focus of this article is the representation of language and identity in Hispanic immigrant literature. It provides a framework for the analysis of linguistic and cultural constructions of migrant identities in literary texts, on the basis of the exploration of the novel El Corrido de Dante, by Eduardo González Viaña. The most significant finding is that González Viaña applies linguistic homogenization in order to stress a common Hispanic identity without effacing cultural, national and ethnic differences, as these are stylistically marked by means of strategic (re)creations of different varieties of Spanish and instances of code-switching between Spanish and English (Spanglish) that require no bilingual competence. The article also sheds light on three crucial language and identity conflicts in the novel: intergenerational conflicts between undocumented migrants and their U.S.-born children; conflicts between Chicano/as and “new” Latino/as; and asymmetric power relations between Hispanics and Anglo-Americans.
Olsson, Fredrik (2015). Del mito de la tierra prometida al sueño del retorno: el discurso del migrante en la novela de la migración latinoamericana indocumentada a Estados Unidos. In Castro, Andrea & Forné, Anna (Ed.), De nómades y migrantes: Desplazamientos en la literatura, el cine y el arte hispanoamericanos. Beatriz Viterbo Editora. ISSN 9789508453273. p. 131–150.
Olsson, Fredrik (2013). Sueños sin papeles: una aproximación a la migración centroamericana indocumentada a Estados Unidos en la narrativa hispanoamericana actual. In Reverte Bernal, Concepción (Eds.), Diálogos culturales en la literatura iberoamericana: Actas del XXXIX Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Editorial Verbum. ISSN 9788479629656.
Olsson, Fredrik (2013). La constitución del sujeto migrante en Entre el cielo y el suelo, de Lorenzo Helguero. In Giuliano, Luigi; Trapassi, Leonarda & Martos, Javier (Ed.), Far Away Is Here. Lejos es aquí. Writing and migrations. Frank & Timme. ISSN 9783865965455. p. 191–209.
Olsson, Fredrik (2013). El sujeto migrante femenino en Después de la Montaña, de Margarita Oropeza. Revista de literatura mexicana contemporánea. ISSN 1405-2687. 58, p. 37–52. Show summary
El objetivo del presente artículo es estudiar la representación de la mujer migrante en Después de la Montaña (1992), de Margarita Oropeza. Esta primera novela de la escritora sonorense destaca por la manera original de abordar la temática de la migración mexicana indocumentada a Estados Unidos desde la perspectiva de la mujer. Partiendo del concepto de sujeto migrante, de Antonio Cornejo Polar, se explora el discurso de la migrante indocumentada, con atención especial a las nociones de espacio, pertenencia y memoria, así como la construcción narrativa de la identidad lingüística y cultural. La novela se estructura alrededor de una narrativa bifronte en la que el sujeto descentrado, desde el presente en las urbes californianas, recuerda el pasado en el México rural en una serie de memorias nostálgicas y, a la vez, dolorosas. En particular, el texto problematiza el sueño americano y el sueño del retorno, así como la articulación entre género y nación. De este modo, Oropeza explora las relaciones transnacionales entre México y Estados Unidos desde una perspectiva intimista y de la intrahistoria, ofreciendo una reescritura feminista del modelo tradicional de la novela de la migración hispanoamericana a Estados Unidos.
Olsson, Fredrik (2012). Tierras transculturales: frontera, mitos y migración en El Corrido de Dante de Eduardo González Viaña. In Ahlstedt, Eva; Benson, Ken; Bladh, Elisabeth; Söhrman, Ingmar & Åkerström, Ulla (Ed.), Actes du XVIIIe congrès des romanistes scandinaves/Actas del XVIII congreso de romanistas escandinavos. Göteborgs universitet. Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. ISSN 978-91-7346-732-2. p. 559–570.
Olsson, Fredrik (2011). La frontera fabulosa: migración y realismo mágico en El Corrido de Dante de Eduardo González Viaña, Actas del coloquio internacional El orden de lo fantástico: Territorios sin fronteras. 27-29 de octubre de 2011, Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar, Lima, Perú. Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar. ISSN 1111111111. Show summary
Digital publisering på CD-ROM. Hecho el Depósito Legal en la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú: 2011-13188.
Olsson, Fredrik (2011). Ballads without Borders: Transnational Identities and Voices of Latino/a Migrant Experiences in El Corrido de Dante by Eduardo González Viaña. American Studies in Scandinavia. ISSN 0044-8060. 43(1), p. 55–72. Show summary
This article attends to the representation of contemporary Latin American migrant experiences in the U.S. in El Corrido de Dante by Eduardo González Viaña. It focuses on voice and identity in relation to migration, space, place, home and belonging. Paraphrasing Spivak’s question “Can the subaltern speak?” from her homonymous essay, I discuss if the undocumented migrant subject has a voice of his/her own. I claim that the text can help us understand the experiences of undocumented Latin American migrants and the identitarian “in-betweenness” of the new generations born on the other side of the border. Furthermore, I argue that it is a polyphonic novel populated by “new” and “traditional” Latino/as, whose heterogeneous voices are enunciated from liminal or marginal positions. I find that González Viaña conveys a rich portrayal of the idiosyncratic reality of the Latin Americans in the U.S. with an original intertextual play that situates the text in the literary borderlands between classical Western works and Latin American and Latino/a popular and mass culture. However, the voice of the undocumented migrant is mediated by the complex multi-layered narrative structure, which makes the “truth” behind the story dissipate into hearsays, myths and legends.

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Olsson, Fredrik (2016). “Me voy pal Norte”. La configuración del sujeto migrante en ocho novelas hispanoamericanas actuales (1992-2009). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). ISBN 978-84-00-10114-5. 379 p.
Olsson, Fredrik (2015). ”Me voy pal Norte”. La configuración del sujeto migrante indocumentado en ocho novelas hispanoamericanas actuales (1992-2009). University of Gothenburg. ISBN 978-91-979921-4-5. 353 p.

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Bradley, Linda & Olsson, Fredrik (2023). Digital literacy needs for education and labor market integration of recent Arabic speaking immigrants in Sweden.
Sæheim, Aleksandra; Olsson, Fredrik & Tandberg, Håkon Naasen (2023). Studenters prokrastinering i høyere utdanning: hva kan vi gjøre?
Korp, Helena; Olsson, Fredrik & Antonsson, Jenny (2023). Kritiska perspektiv på inkludering i högre utbildning: språklig och kulturell diversitet som resursskapande.
Olsson, Fredrik & Bradley, Linda (2023). Lärandemekanismer i gränslandet: förväntningar, attityder och erfarenheter av högre utbildning hos studenter med flyktingbakgrund.
Olsson, Fredrik (2023). De sujeto migrante indocumentado a sujeto translocal: 3052. Persiguiendo un sueño (2012), de Mamadou Dia.
Olsson, Fredrik (2016). Drömmen om det förlovade landet. Karavan. ISSN 1404-3874. 2, p. 16–21. Show summary
Fattiga migranter från den södra delen av Amerika har sedan långt tillbaka begett sig norrut med hopp om ett bättre liv. Med tiden har hindren i deras väg växt sig större och större. Hur ser de papperslösas litteratur ut, hur gestaltas deras liv? Fredrik Olsson skriver om latinamerikanska skildringar av den strapatsfyllda färden till USA.

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Published Aug. 16, 2022 2:40 PM - Last modified Feb. 7, 2024 10:34 AM