- PhD, University of Bergen (2023)
- MA, Malmö University (2015)
- MFA, Wichita State University, Kansas (2012)
- BA, Minnesota State University, Mankato (2009)
- Associate Professor, Nord University (2024-)
- Secondary Teacher of English Language and Literature, Oslo International School (2024)
- Assistant Professor, University of Stavanger (2022-2023)
- English Composition Instructor, Wichita State University, Kansas (2010-2012)
- English as a Foreign Language Instructor, Universidad Yachay Tech (2015-2017)
Popular culture; American popular culture; American literature; pandemic literature; visual culture and literature pedagogy
Nahum Welang is an Associate Professor in English Literature/Culture and Didactics with teaching and supervision experience at various institutions in Norway and abroad such as University of Bergen, University of Stavanger, Wichita State University, Kansas and Universidad Yachay Tech.
His research has been published in journals like the Journal of Popular Culture, the Canadian Review of American Studies and the Journal of Transnational American Studies. He is the editor of the Special Issue Plague as Metaphor and the author of the book The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship: Rethinking Triple Consciousness in Contemporary American Culture.
ENG 2008-1 24H English 2 Literature (Nord University)
ENG 175 American Literature and Culture (University of Stavanger)
ENG 290 Bachelor Thesis in English (University of Stavanger)
MLI 303-1 Authors, Readers, and Texts (University of Stavanger)
ENG 122 American Literature and Culture (University of Bergen)
ENG 264 Term Paper in English Literature and Culture (University of Bergen)
ENG 350 English Master’s Thesis (University of Bergen)
ENG 335 Selected Topic in English Literature and/or Culture (University of Bergen)
ENG 011 Basic Skills English Composition (Wichita State University, Kansas)
ENG 101 College English 1 (Wichita State University, Kansas)
ENG 102 College English 2 (Wichita State University, Kansas)
Selected Publications:
“Introduction: How Metaphors Remember and Culturalise Pandemics” in Open Cultural Studies (December 2023: Volume 7, issue 1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2022-0200
“The Humanities of Contagion: How Literary and Visual Representations of the ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic Complement, Complicate and Calibrate COVID-19 Narratives” in Open Cultural Studies (October 2023: Volume 7, issue 1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2022-0187
“Losing LeninInst Internationalism in Claude McKay’s Lost Novel” in the Journal of Transnational American Studies (May 2023: Volume 14, Issue 1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5070/T814151884
The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship Rethinking Triple Consciousness in Contemporary American Culture (October 2022, published by Lexington Books), ISBN: 978-1-66690-714-8.
“Borders and Betrayal in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: Rethinking Truths and Facts in the American Slave Narrative” in the Canadian Review of American Studies (March 2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/cras-2022-003
“Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Appreciation? Unpacking the Microdystopias of Beyoncé’s Black is King” in the edited collection Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment (December 2022, published by Lexington Books), ISBN: 978-1-66692-942-3.
“The Death and Resurrection of Oshun in Beyoncé’s Lemonade: Subverting the Institutionalized Borders of Western Christian Thought in American Popular Culture” in the Journal of Popular Culture (July 2021: Volume 54, Issue 4). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13050
“Triple Consciousness: The Reimagination of Black Female Identities in Contemporary American Culture” in Open Cultural Studies (October 2018: Volume 2, Issue 1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0027
Groups:
- Member, Nord University Humanities, Education and Culture Research Group
- Member, University of Bergen, Research Group Aesthetic and Cultural Studies
Projects:
Beyoncé utfordrer forventningene til svart femininitet, Kilden, 12.03.2024
