In the following, I want to present some of my international academic and artistic contacts: Professors Jacqueline Warwick, Isabell Otto and Tyler Bickford, editor Nicole Gallichio, artist Anne Merkelbach, and photographer Aleksander Opheim-Winje.
Professor Jacqueline Warwick
Jacqueline Warwick studies music as it intersects with race, gender, sexuality, and age identity, and a particular interests in popular musics in North American culture. She is the author of Girl Groups, Girl Culture: Popular Music and Identity in the 1960s (Routledge 2007), Music, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: A Teacher’s Guide (Routledge 2022). As an editor, she collaborated with Allison Adrian on Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music: Performance, Authority, Authenticity (Routledge, 2016), Steven Baur and Raymond Knapp on Musicological Identities: Essays Honoring Susan McClary (Ashgate 2008), and she served as Senior Editor for The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition(Oxford University Press, 2013). She is currently preparing Child’s Play: Musical Prodigies and the Performance of Childhood for Oxford University Press. She is professor of Music and Gender & Women’s Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada.
Professor Isabell Otto
Through working with the online environment in a researcher perspective, I came into contact with Dr. Isabell Otto, Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Konstanz. Otto is the principal investigator of subproject 3 of Mediale Teilhabe. The subproject investigates: Smartphone Communities. Dynamics of Resistance in Relations of Participation.
https://www.uni-konstanz.de/en/university/about-the-university-of-konstanz/
Professor Tyler Bickford
Tyler Bickford is professor of children’s literature and childhood studies in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Trained as an ethnomusicologist, his research focuses on children’s media, especially popular music and digital technology, using ethnographic and cultural studies methods. He is the author of Tween Pop: Children’s Music and Public Culture (Duke University Press, 2020) and Schooling New Media: Music, Language, and Technology in Children’s Culture (Oxford University Press, 2017). His writing has appeared in Popular Music, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Ethnomusicology, Journal of Folklore Research, Journal of Consumer Culture, Current Musicology, Journal of the Society for American Music, and several edited volumes. He is the recipient of an ACLS Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for Tween Pop, and Schooling New Media received honorable mention for the Iona and Peter Opie Prize from the American Folklore Society.
Nicole Gallichio
As a former academic, and now an editor of and instructor in academic English, I work with researchers from a range of disciplines. With my background in the social sciences, my focus is on facilitating cross-cultural communication, helping academics from around the world improve their communication—with one another and with target audiences. My focus is thus on clarity, coherence, and concision, with an emphasis on “translating” complex research activities into publishable texts and presentations. I currently teach courses in English for academic purposes at the University of Bergen, and have taught at the Inland University of Applied Sciences and the University of Chicago. My client roster includes PhD students, postdocs, and professors at several institutions across the EU, UK, and US, as well as in Norway, where I am based.
Artist Anne Merkelbach
Anne Merkelbach is a visual artist living in the South of Germany (Konstanz). The video below is based on her pictures, and especially the collage “Einhorn” (unicorn) that she created to the poem with the same name by Hilde Domin. Here in a simple and melancholy melody recorded on Merkelbach’s exhibition in Stange, Norway, in 2012.
The poem by Hilde Domin “Unicorn” is about the timid and gentle creature of joy, coming to lick the tears you are crying in your dreams – so quietly, you do not even notice…
Music performed by Trio Lyrica
Photo: Aleksander Opheim-Winje
Photographer Aleksander Opheim-Winje
English: Aleksander Opheim-Winje is a versatile photographer who is interested in the uniqueness of individuals and settings. He lives in Denmark, but visits Norway frequently, both privatly and professionally. If you want to know more about Aleksander and his work, please visit his webpage https://photosbywinje.dk/
Norwegian: Aleksander Opheim-Winje er en allsidig fotograf med blikk for personens og situasjonens egenart. Han bor i Danmark, men er jevnlig i Norge, både privat og profesionelt. Hvis du vil vite mer om Aleksander og hans arbeid, besøk gjerne hjemmesiden hans https://photosbywinje.dk/
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