Anna Lindhé

Norwegian version of this page Department of Languages, Literature and Culture
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Norwegian version of this page Position
Associate Professor
Contact
anna.lindhe@hiof.no
Study place
Halden
Office nr.
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Academic interests

My research interests are literature and ethics, narrative emotions (specifically empathy), intercultural competence, and literature didactics.

My most recent work focuses on the development of an ethics of reading for the literature classroom based on a central aesthetic-ethical problem (of realism). I’m currently writing on a monograph with the working title “The Paradox of Narrative Empathy in George Eliot, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf: A New Ethics of Reading” which brings together theoretical, ethical, historical, and didactical perspectives on the novel.

Another aspect of my research concerns ways in which literature can foster the development of intercultural competence. In a forthcoming article I discuss how books that contain stereotypes and negative images may provide didactic opportunities for readers to reflect on their own relation and attitude to “the other”. Other forthcoming publications include an article on the use of written retelling of narrative texts in the Swedish as a second language classroom to support learners’ identity  development and a paper on the ethics of the ending in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.

Courses taught

Background

I’ve taught English and other subjects and supervised and examined Bachelor and Master Theses at a range of universities, amongst them Lund University, Linnaeus University, North Carolina Central University, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, before joining The Department of Languages, Literature and Culture here at Östfold. I have a PhD in English Literature from Lund University, and I did my postdoc at Umeå University in Literary Studies with a didactic approach. I've spent one term as a Visiting Scholar at Duke University and a year as a Visiting Graduate Student at Worcester College, Oxford University 

 

Awards

  • Award for "Best Dissertation on Margaret Atwood", The Margaret Atwood Society
  • Award for "Excellence in Teaching and Collegiality", College of Liberal Arts, North Carolina Central University

 

 

Research groups

Publications

  • Lindhé, Anna (2024). Mot mörkrets hjärta på lärarutbildningen: Om stereotyper och skönlitteraturens potential att utveckla interkulturell kompetens. In Bergnéhr, Disa; Nilsson, Henrik; Silander, Charlotte & Trulsson, Åsa (Ed.), Mångfaldens möten: Interkulturalitet, utbildning och lärande. Linnaeus University Press. ISSN 9789180821476.
  • Lindhé, Anna; Lundgren, Berit & Norlund Shaswar, Annika (2024). Andraspråkselevers känslomässiga läsning. Skriftligt återberättande som en didaktisk möjlighet i litteraturundervisningen (accepted for publication). Pedagogisk Forskning i Sverige. ISSN 1401-6788.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2021). 'Some Knowledge of Yourself': Heart of Darkness in the Twenty-First-Century Literature Classroom - An Ethical Approach. In parker, jay & wexler, joyce (Ed.), Joseph Conrad and Postcritique: Politics of Hope, Politics of Fear. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783030725013. p. 211–226.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2021). Processes of Empathy and Othering: Towards A New Ethics of Reading. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 20(2), p. 225–248.
  • Hermansson, Carina & Lindhé, Anna (2019). Demokratisk kompetens och digi-läsning i förskolans värdegrundsarbete. In Norling, Martina & Magnusson, Maria (Ed.), Att möta barns sociala språkmiljö i förskolan – flerdimensionella perspektiv. Liber AB. ISSN 978-91-47-12818-1.
  • Hermansson, Carina; Jonsson, Bert; Levlin, Maria; Lindhé, Anna; Lundgren, Berit & Norlund Shaswar, Annika (2019). The (Non)effect of Joint Construction in a Genre-Based Approach to Teaching Writing. The Journal of educational research (Washington, D.C.). ISSN 0022-0671.
  • Lindhé, Anna & Hermansson, Carina (2017). Litteraturläsningens empatifrämjande effekt i det digitala klassrummet. In Erixon, Per-Olof & Pennlert, Julia (Ed.), Digital humaniora: humaniora i en digital tid. Daidalos. ISSN 9789171735249.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2016). On the Possible Connection between Empathy and Evil: Henry James' The Turn of the Screw. In Morrison, Pam; Gauld, Quanta & Wain, Veronica (Ed.), Promises, Pedagogy and Pitfalls: Empathy's Potential for Healing and Harm. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 978-1-84888-428-1.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2016). Gör mig levande igen: om diktläsningens relationella etik. In Hästbacka, Elisabeth; Johansson, Anders & Johansson, Anders E (Ed.), Subjekt Södergran: om jagen i Edith Södergrans poesi. Makadam Förlag. ISSN 9789170612237.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2016). The Paradox of Narrative Empathy and the Form of the Novel, Or What George Eliot Knew. Studies in the Novel. ISSN 0039-3827. 48(1), p. 19–42.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2015). Empatins paradox i skönlitteratur och litteraturundervisning. In Jönsson, Maria & Öhman, Anders (Ed.), Litteratur och läsning: litteraturdidaktikens nya möjligheter. Studentlitteratur AB. ISSN 9789144103198. p. 239–255.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2015). Restoring the Divine Within: The Inner Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood. In waltonen, Karma (Eds.), Margaret Atwood's Apocalypses. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 1-4438-6882-5.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2013). Sisterhood, Shame, and Redemption in Cat's Eye and King Lear. Margaret Atwood Studies Journal. ISSN 1081-9622. 7, p. 11–24.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2005). Interpersonal Complications and Intertextual Relations: A Thousand Acres and King Lear. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 4(1), p. 55–78.

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  • Lindhé, Anna (2013). Appropriations of Shakespeare's King Lear in Three Modern North American Novels. Lund University Press. ISBN 978-91-976935-2-3. 188 p.
  • Ernst, Carina & Lindhé, Anna (2005). Streams in Literary History. Liber. ISBN ‎ 9121212589. 176 p.

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  • Lindhé, Anna (2024). The Realist Question: How literature can meet the challenges of the Anthropocene.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2023). Towards the Heart of Darkness in Teacher Education.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2022). "Att empatisera och andragöra: mot en etisk-estetisk modell för litteraturläsning.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2021). Processes of Empathy and Othering: Towards a New Approach to Teaching LIterature and Ethics.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2021). The Value of Othering in Literature: Towards an Ethics of Negative Emotions in the Higher Education Classroom.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2021). Om andragörandet i litteraturen som en etisk-didaktisk potential i litteraturklassrummet.
  • Lindhé, Anna & Norlund Shaswar, Annika (2020). Skriftligt återberättande av narrativ text i det genrepedagogiska arbetet med läsförståelse hos elever med svenska som andraspråk.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2020). Mot mörkrets hjärta: om andragörandet i litteraturen.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2019). Mörkrets hjärta: mot en ny läsningens etik.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2019). Excess of Otherness, Troubled Affects, and the Ethics of the (Modernist) Novel: The Case of Henry James and Joseph Conrad.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2018). Narrative Empathy and the Creation of the Other: Towards a New Ethics of Reading.
  • Lindhé, Anna & Hermansson, Carina (2018). Young Children Reading E-Books: How Multimodal Features Matter for Emotional Literacy.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2017). Kan litteratur göra oss till bättre människor?
  • Lindhé, Anna; Hermansson, Carina; Lundgren, Berit & Norlund Shaswar, Annika (2016). Kan genrepedagogiska modeller främja elevers läsförståelse och textproduktion?
  • Lindhé, Anna (2016). The Paradox of Narrative Empathy or What George Eliot Knew.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2016). Empatins paradox i skönlitteratur och litteraturundervisning.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2015). Varför litteratur i mediesamhället?
  • Lindhé, Anna (2015). Kan vi läsa oss till godhet: empati och litteraturläsning i teori och praktik.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2015). On the (Possible) Connection between Empathy and evil in Literature: Henry James' The Turn of the Screw.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2015). The Paradox of Narrative Empathy and the Form of the Realist Novel.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2014). "A Man Falling into Dark Water": The Paradox of Narrative Empathy in George Eliot's Silas Marner.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2014). Förhållandet mellan empati och litteraturläsning.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2013). Shakespeare, kvinnor och relationer.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2013). Religion and Redemption in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and The Year of the Flood.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2009). 'You're one of us': Några reflektioner kring att undervisa på ett historiskt svart universitet i USA.
  • Lindhé, Anna (2007). Narratives of Land: King Lear in Sweden and America.

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