Janike Kampevold Larsen is Post Doctoral Fellow and part of the research project Routes, roads and landscapes, Aesthetic practices en route 1750–2015.
Larsen holds a MA in Literature and a PhD (Dr. Art) in Literature. She has been a visiting scholar to Columbia University, Department of Art and Archaeology, to the University of Essex, Department of Philosophy and to UC Berkeley, Department of Comparative Literature.
She is currently working on a book called Post National Natures. The Spectacle of the Norwegian Tourist Routes. She has been working as a literary critic, as an Assistant professor in Comparative Literature and as editor of both literary publications and the literary magazine Vinduet. She has also been the coordinating the Fehn-symposium, Oslo School of Architecture and Design 2007 and 2008.
Recent publications:
Å være vann i vannet. Forestilling og virkelighet i Tor Ulvens forfatterskap, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag [Imagery and reality in Tor Ulven’s work.] 2009.
Editor:
w/ B. Brenna, B. Elvebakk, M. Hvattum, Routes, Roads and Landscapes, a collection of essays, Ashgate, 2011, forthcoming.
Guest editor of dossier in ’Scape Magazine: Landscape architecture and urbanism, no 1/2010, pp. 18-41, on behalf of the research project Routes, Roads and Landscapes, Aesthetic Practices en route, 1750 – 2015.
w/ S. Sæterbakken, Norsk litterær kanon, [The Norwegian Literary Canon] CappelenDamm, 2008.
Articles:
“Curating Views, The Norwegian Tourist Route Project”, forthcoming in Routes, Roads and Landscapes (London: Ashgate, 2011)
”Vegskjæringens sublimitet”, / [The Sublimity of the Road Cut] Norsk Vegmuseums Årbok, 2010,
‘The view from the road”, in ’Scape Magazine: Landscape architecture and urbanism, no 1/2010, pp. 39-41.
“CLUI.org. Å beskrive og forstå jordoverflaten” [CLUI.org. To describe and understand the surface of the earth] in Vagant, nr. 3, 2010.
”Views from the Road”, catalogue essay for the exhibition Produced Landscapes at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Sept. 2009.
”The forms of The Tourist Roads”, contribution to the catalogue for the exhibit of The Norwegian Tourist Route Project, Detour, Norsk Form, 2006.