Nord Student wins international undergraduate research award
The English Department congratulates third-year Bachelor of English student Solveig Landsem on winning the Edith Wharton Society’s Undergraduate Research Prize. Landsem’s essay was selected for this award from among entries by students from across …
A doctoral project in 2.5 mins.: Hekneby Braseth presents at Nord PhD Event
Being a PhD fellow comes with many challenges: not only does one have to develop a full and compelling research project, usually with an international component, but one also has many other obligations, including teaching, research group activity, and developing …
Bodø VGS students are invited to Explore English at Nord University
The Department of English at Nord University, in collaboration with LæreriNord, invites Bodø VGS students to a special half-day event for a taste of college life. University lecturers from the One-Year English Programme have planned a morning of exciting talks …
Learning by Doing?: Didactics 8-13 and Crime Fiction Are On the Case
On March 4, English students met up at The Cat’s Meow to dance their cares away, Roaring 20s style. Little did they know that they would be required to solve a ‘murder’… It was a exciting and glamorous way to work on communication skills, memorization, logic, rational deduction …
Special Event with the Bodø Film Club & the Bodø English Literature Club
The Department of English at Nord University, in collaboration with the Bodø Film Club and the Bodø English Literature Club, invites you to a special showing of The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999, dir. Anthony Minghella) at Fram Kino on Saturday 2 March 2024 at 15:30 …
ASCET Webinar: Aesthetic & Social Constructions of Energy Transition
The ASCET Project invites you to our inaugural webinar, on 22 Jan. 2024, which focuses on the dynamics & possible futures of political, aesthetic, and pedagogical interventions in the climate crisis and the energy cultures that underpin it. Featuring a keynote …
Virtual Book Launch to Celebrate New Edited Collection from Drizou
The Department of English invites you to a virtual book launch, on 29 September 2023, to celebrate Dr. Myrto Drizou and her co-editors (Palmer & Roudeau), who recently published New Perspectives on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Reading with and Against the Grain (Edinburgh UP) …
Bachelor of English: #1 on the Study Barometer: Six Years in a Row
For the sixth consecutive year, Bachelor of English has rated highest in overall student satisfaction among all similar disciplinary degree programs in Norway, according to the annual survey administered by the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT) …
Picturebooks, intercultural learning and citizenship in primary English classrooms
The ICEPELL Project (Intercultural Citizenship Education through Picturebooks in Early English Language Learning), funded by Erasmus+, is leaving us with a treasure trove of pedagogical resources around picturebooks for teachers of English in Grades 1-7 …