Ingunn Lunde - Biography#

Ingunn Lunde is Professor of Russian at the University of Bergen. Her research interests include Russian sociolinguistics, Slavic medieval culture and Russian literature of the 19th to 21st centuries. She is head of the Research Group for Contemporary Russia at the U of Bergen and was PI in the projects “Landslide of the Norm: Linguistic liberalization and literary development in Russia in the 1920s and 1990s” and “The Future of Russian: Language Culture in the Era of New Technology” (Research Council of Norway, 2005 - 2008; 2008 - 2013).

Lunde is the author of Verbal Celebrations: Kirill of Turov’s Homiletic Rhetoric and its Byzantine Sources (Harrassowitz 2001), Language on Display: Writers, Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post-Soviet Russia (Edinburgh UP 2018) and Fragmenter av fortid: Historiens rolle i russisk samtidslitteratur (Dreyer 2019) and editor/co-editor of twelve books, among them (with M. S. Gorham and M. Paulsen) Digital Russia: The Language, Culture and Politics of New Media Communication (Routledge 2014). She is managing editor of Scando-Slavica (2016 - 2000), co-editor of Poljarnyj vestnik (2013 - present) and founder and editor-in-chief of the book series Slavica Bergensia (2000 - present).

The total number of publications during her career amounts to 85, including 3 monographs, 13 edited books/issues, 56 articles, 8 reviews, and 5 translations.

She has been invited keynote speaker at conferences in Copenhagen, Dresden, Lund and Tampere and has given invited guest lectures in Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Passau, Stockholm, Oslo and Cambridge MA (Harvard).

Lunde is actively involved in outreach activities for Norwegian audiences, ranging from public talks and feature articles to podcasts, panels, media appearances and interviews, at venues such as theatres, public libraries, concert halls, houses of literature, etc. She is responsible for “Russian literature” articles in the Great Norwegian Encyclopaedia.

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