ABOUT
Ingunn Lunde is Professor of Russian at the University of Bergen. She is the author of Verbal Celebrations: Kirill of Turov’s Homiletic Rhetoric and its Byzantine Sources (Harrassowitz 2001), Language on Display: Writers, Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post-Soviet Russia (Edinburgh UP 2018) and Fragmenter av fortid: Historiens rolle i russisk samtidslitteratur (Dreyer 2019) and editor/co-editor of twelve books, among them (with M. S. Gorham and M. Paulsen) Digital Russia: The Language, Culture and Politics of New Media Communication (Routledge 2014). She was managing editor of Scando-Slavica (2016–2022), co-editor of Poljarnyj vestnik (2013–2022), and is the founder and editor-in-chief of the book series Slavica Bergensia (2000–). Lunde is actively involved in outreach activities for Norwegian audiences, ranging from public talks and feature articles to podcasts, panels, media appearances and interviews. She is also a literary translator from Ukrainian and Russian into Norwegian.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
East Slavic Medieval Culture, Contemporary Ukrainian Literature, Cultural History of the Ukrainian Language, Ukrainian language culture(s) in times of war, History and Memory Politics, Contemporary Russian Literature
WEB-PAGE
https://www.uib.no/personer/Ingunn.Lunde
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON UKRAINE
- Lunde, Ingunn. 2025. «Between linguistic resistance and collapse: Russophone anti-war poetry and the question of linguistic legitimacy», Мови та культури під час війни: (не)можливе, (пере)осмислене, (не)кероване, ed. Halyna Shumytska et al. Uzhhorod UP, 258–272.
- Lunde, Ingunn. 2024. «Å skrive om krigen: Fire dikt av Iryna Shuvalova, med innledning». Gjendiktet fra ukrainsk av Ingunn Lunde. Vagant 1–2, 10–15.
- Lunde, Ingunn. 2023. «Tiden har mistet sin vanlige rytme» av Serhij Zjadan, oversatt fra ukrainsk med en innledning av Ingunn Lunde. Vagant 2, 174–179.
- Lunde, Ingunn. 2023. “Ut av gråsonen: Språk og tilhørighet i to romaner om krigen i Donbas (Serhij Zjadans Internatet og Andrej Kurkovs Grå bier)”. Norsk litteraturvitenskapelig tidsskrift 26/1, 7–22.
- Lunde, Ingunn. 2001. Verbal Celebrations: Kirill of Turov’s Homiletic Rhetoric and its Byzantine Sources. Munich: Harrassowitz.
- Lunde, Ingunn. 2004. “Rhetorical Enargeia and Linguistic Pragmatics: On Speech-Reporting Strategies in East Slavic Medieval Hagiography and Homiletics.” Journal of Historical Pragmatics 5/1, 49–80.
- Lunde, Ingunn. 2006. “When the Devil Quotes the Psalms: On the Function of Reported Speech in the Tale of Boris and Gleb.” Harvard Ukrainian Studies 28 (1–4), 225–235.