Ingvild Folkvord

Ingvild Folkvord is a professor in the Department of Language and Literature at NTNU, Norway. Her research focuses on modern German and Norwegian writers and Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of culture. Her work on cultural theory has led her to consider literature as a collective resource in response to the terrorist attacks (Stemmene etter 22. juli [Voices after July 22] (Scandinavian Academic Press, 2020). She is currently working on a monograph in English on literary responses to the terrorist attacks in Europe after 9/11.

The project

Ttile: What is under attack. Social imaginaries in terrorist trials

Keywords: Law and literature, literature as a social resource, comparative analyses of literature on trials in Norway, France and Germany

Hosting institution: Centre Georg Simmel. Recherches Franco-Allemandes en Sciences Sociales, EHESS

Selection of publications

2022 «Law and literature as symbolic forms. Bearing witness of contemporary terrorist attacks», in: E. Bengtson et al (red): Shadows in the Cave, Retorikförlaget.

2020 Stemmene etter 22. juli [The Voices after July 22], Scandinavian Academic Press.

2020 «The fear of ‘das Volk’: Karl Ove Knausgård’s reactions to terrorism», i: Scandinavian Studies, 92, Nr. 3. 

2013 «Sachlichkeit, Pathos und strategisches Manövrieren. Bertolt Brecht liest sein Gedicht ‚An die Nachgeborenen‘», in: treibhaus. Jahrbuch für Literatur der 1950er Jahre, 9).

2012 Ernst Cassirer on Form and Technology: Contemporary Readings (edited together with A. S. Hoel), Palgrave Mac Millan.