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Sidsel Boysen Dall

Sidsel Boysen Dall is a PhD student at NTNU in Trondheim, who is an affiliate member of the Baltic Peripeties group. Sidsel has a keen interest in the field of medical humanities, which is reflected in her education. Besides holding a master’s degree in contemporary literature, she has studied psychology at Aarhus University.

Apart from her research, Sidsel is a visual artist and has worked as an art and aesthetics teacher at a Danish folk high school.

NTNU Trondheim

Department of Language and Literature
Nordic Literature
Faculty of Humanities
Bygg 3, Dragvoll
N-7049 Trondheim
Norway

+47 735 924 06
sidsel.b.dall[at]ntnu.no

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Shattered Expectations: The construction of narrative meaning in a shared reading group for informal caregivers

Informal caregivers often experience expectancy violations when caring for loved ones. The experience of becoming an informal caregiver may for example challenge their expectations of themselves as caregivers and expectations regarding their own future. This thesis aims to investigate these schema violations as prominent themes in contemporary Scandinavian caregiving fiction.

MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT

Project presentation at the 34th Conference of the International Association for Scandinavian Studies (IASS) Health and Happiness in Nordic Literature and Culture, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, August 2-5, 2023.
“Shattered Expectations in Caregiving Literature: Reflections on the Shared Reading of Schema Disrupting Fiction,” international conference Negotiating Peripeties: Change and Its Narratives, organised by the IRTG Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes, University of Greifswald, in cooperation with the Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study Greifswald, May 25-27, 2023.
“Shattered Expectations in Caregiving Literature: Reflections on the Shared Reading of Schema-Disrupting Fiction,” workshop Literature as a Social Resource, organised by the research group “‘Bildung’ in the Age of Algorithms” and the project “Caregiving and Literature as a Remedium” at the NTNU Trondheim, in collaboration with Centre Universitaire de Norvège à Paris (CUNP), CUNP, Paris, April 24-26, 2023.
Project presentation in the PhD seminar Litteratur og helse, Faculty for Humanities and Pedagogy, University of Agder, December 12-14, 2022.

University studies and degrees

Since October 2022
Doctoral researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Department of Language and Literature.
2017-2019
M.A. in Comparative Literature at Aarhus University.
2014-2017
B.A. in Comparative Literature at Aarhus University.
2010-2012
Psychology student at Aarhus University.

Professional background

2020-2022
Literature, art, aesthetics and psychology teacher at the Danish folk high school Silkeborg Højskole.
2020-2022
Editor and proofreader of non-fiction books on psychology, philosophy and politics at the Danish publishing company Forlaget Klim.
2018-2019
Co-creator of a social and literary Nordic Noir event held in three different venues in Aarhus.