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Researcher
- Chinese Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail astrid.moller-olsenostas.luse
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 is forthcoming January 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, 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. (accepted/in press). Sensing the Sinophone : Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction. Sinophone World. Cambria Press.
- Møller-Olsen, A. (2019). Seven Senses of the City : Urban Spacetime and Sensory Memory in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction. Lund University. Dissertation.
Articles (6)
- 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. (accepted/in press). 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. 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 (3)
- 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 affiliatedwith the Association of Chinese & Comparative Literature (ACCL), the Forum for Comparative Literature at Lund University, the Monster Network, and the Greenhouse EnvironmentalInitiative at UiS.
Teaching includes guest lectures in literature, Chinese studies, posthuman tehories, as well as BA and MA level courses on modern Chinese history and culture.
Recent and forthcoming publications include
(2017)"Fictional Dictionaries: Power and Philosophy of Language in ContemporaryChinese 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
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20