Person
Researcher
- Chinese Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail astrid.moller-olsenostas.luse
Room SOL:A411
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
International Postdoctoral Fellow at Lund/Stavanger/Oxford Universities funded by the Swedish Research Council.
My monograph Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction was published in 2022 as part of the Cambria Press Sinophone World Series.
In my current research, I look at how contemporary Sinophone works of fiction use botanical characters, plant imagery and green environments to create alternative realities, explore possible futures and deal with traumatic pasts; colouring their writings, so to speak, with the green ink of literary plants.
Other research interests include literary sensory studies, urban Sinophone fiction, spacetime narratology, language and translation, speculative world literature and memory studies
To follow my work, please visit www.xiaoshuo.blog or listen to my podcast Sinophone Unrealities.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
Books (2)
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2022). Sensing the Sinophone : Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction. Cambria Sinophone world series. Cambria Press.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2019). Seven Senses of the City : Urban Spacetime and Sensory Memory in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction. Lund University. Dissertation.
Editorships (1)
Articles (8)
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2022). Introduction: Chronotopia : Urban Space and Time in Twenty-First-Century Sinophone Film and Fiction. Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, 19, 1-5. Duke University Press.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2022). Take the Elevator to Tomorrow : Mobile Space and Lingering Time in Contemporary Urban Fiction. Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, 19, 86-101. Duke University Press.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2021). The City is a Journey : Heritage and Memory in Zhu Tianxin’s Novella ‘The Old Capital’. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 27, 819-829. Taylor & Francis.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2020). Data Narrator : Digital Chronotopes in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction. SFRA Review, 50, 133-140.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2020). Sounding the Dream : Crosscultural Reverberations between Can Xue and Jorge Luis Borges. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 47, 463-479. Academic Printing and Publishing.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2017). Fictional Dictionaries : Power and Philosophy of Language in Contemporary Chinese Fiction. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 29, 66-108. East Asian Studies Center, Ohio State University.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2013). Den daoistiske ædedolk : Daoisme og spisning i Ah Chengs novelle 'Kongen af skak'. Chaos. Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionhistoriske studier, 1, 185-198. Forlaget Chaos.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2011). Det menneskeædende samfund : Lu Xuns brug af kannibalisme som litterært motiv. Trappe Tusind – Tidsskrift for litteraturvidenskab, 26-34.
Book chapters (2)
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2022). Trees Keep Time : An Ecocritical Approach to Literary Temporality. In Moratto, R., Pesaro, N. & Chao, D.-k. (Eds.) Ecocriticism and Chinese Literature : Imagined Landscapes and Real Lived Spaces (pp. 3-15). Routledge.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2015). Dissolved in Liquor and Life : Drinkers and Drinking Cultures in Mo Yan’s Novel, Liquorland. In Kerner, S., Chou, C. & Warmind, M. (Eds.) Commensality : From Everyday Food to Feast. Bloomsbury Academic.
Conference contributions (6)
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2018). Take the Elevator to Tomorrow : Mobile Space and Lingering Time in Contemporary Urban Fiction.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2018). Urban Ecologies : The Flora and Fauna of Fictional Taipei.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2017). Walking or Reading the City : Spatiotemporal narrative forms in contemporary urban Chinese fiction.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2016). Sharing a Dream : The Lucid Dreamscapes of Jorge Luis Borges and Can Xue.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2016). The City is a Journey : Heritage and memory in Zhu Tianxin’s novel Old Capital.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2015). House Without a Ceiling : Uncanny places in the works of Can Xue.
Reviews (6)
- Møller-Olsen, A. (accepted/in press). REVIEW Li, Hua. Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw. University of Toronto Quarterly, 92. University of Toronto Press.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2022). "Stories Grow in Hong Kong : A Review of 𝑂𝑓 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠". Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2022). Uncle Tall Tale : On “Mo Yan Speaks: Lectures and Speeches by the Nobel Laureate from China”. The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB). Los Angeles Review of Books.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2018). “The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality” by Ling Hon Lam. Asian Review of Books - ARB.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2018). Review of "A Hero Born" by Jin Yong. Asian Review of Books - ARB.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2016). Det skrøbelige geni: Kodeeksperten. Kinabladet. Dansk-Kinesisk Forening.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (1)
Miscellaneous (1)
Other tasks and qualifications
I am affiliated with the Association of Chinese & Comparative Literature (ACCL), the Forum for Comparative Literature at Lund University, the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) , the Monster Network, the Greenhouse Environmental Initiative, and the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA).
I have tought classes in literature, Chinese history and culture, critical plant studies, and gender studies.
Recent publications include
(2022). Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction. Cambria Press.
(2017)"Fictional Dictionaries: Power and Philosophy of Language in Contemporary Chinese Fiction." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 29(2):66-108.
Researcher
- Chinese Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail astrid.moller-olsenostas.luse
Room SOL:A411
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20