Kristina Leganger Iversen

Teaching and research fellow at the University of Oslo

Kristina Leganger Iversen is a teaching and research fellow at the University of Oslo. I March 2018 she defended her Ph.D. dissertation on whiteness, coloniality, and subjectivity in contemporary Scandinavian poetry. Working at the intersection of literary studies, critical theory and critical race and whiteness studies, she is currently developing a postdoctoral project, where she will study how contemporary Scandinavian poetry is partaking in a renegotiation of the conception of the human.