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Marit Elise Lyngstad

Associate Professor

Email: marit.lyngstad@inn.no
Phone number: +47 62 51 72 94
Mobile number: +47 97 76 69 63

Faculty of education
Department of English
Campus Hamar, Room 2C257-5

Short description

Marit Elise Lyngstad is Associate Professor of English. She has a Master's degree in English literature from NTNU (2012) and a PhD in English literature and didactics from the Teaching and Teacher Education program (PROFF) from HINN (2019). Her dissertation is called English teachers' choices and beliefs about literature in the Norwegian upper secondary classroom.

Lyngstad teaches in all of the study programs where English is involved: teacher training for Years 1-7 and 5-10 (MGLU/S), teacher training for Years 8-13 (lektor), the Master's program in culture, language, and didactics (MIKS), the year course in English, and in-service programs for English teachers (KfK and DEKOMP).

Lyngstad's research interests include the teaching of literature in the English subject, English-language literature for children and young adults, and speculative fiction (especially fantasy and dystopian literature). She is involved in a project with the working title "Literature, teacher education and climate change". Lyngstad is currently leading the research group Literature and Literacy.

Research groups

Literature and literacy

Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2024). Critical literacy and reading in the English subjects in lower secondary school. In Tverbakk, May Line Rotvik & Sommervold, Tove (Ed.), Tekster og lesere: Et nærmere blikk på ungdomstrinnet. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788245043532. p. 163–178. Show summary
Antologien Tekster og lesere presenterer et bredt spekter av fagfellevurderte artikler om tekstutvalg og tilnærmingsmåter til lesing i ungdomsskolen. På disse trinnene møter elevene mer komplekse og mangfoldige tekster enn tidligere, og forventningene til lesekompetanse øker merkbart i løpet av ungdomsskoleårene. Bidragene i antologien aktualiserer skolens lesing og leseundervisning på 2020-tallet. De tilbyr oppdatert, forskningsbasert kunnskap om lesing gjennom diskusjoner av eksempler, tekster og dilemmaer fra ungdomstrinnets leseundervisning. Kapitlene kan hver for seg og sammen fungere som utgangspunkt for refleksjon over hvordan ungdomsskoleelevers lesing og leseinteresse kan støttes og videreutvikles. Boka retter seg mot alle som ønsker å styrke elevenes lesekompetanse og skape en engasjerende og relevant leseundervisning. Ambisjonen er å inspirere lærere, lærerstudenter, forskere og andre med interesse for ungdomsskolens leseundervisning til å se enda flere muligheter og til å ta i bruk et større repertoar av tilnærmingsmåter og teksttyper.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2021). Integrating competence and Bildung through dystopian literature: Teaching Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses and democracy and citizenship in the English subject. Utbildning & lärande. ISSN 2001-4554. 15(2), p. 11–26. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Artikeln behandlar användningen av dystopisk litteratur för ungdomar i engelskämnet i Norge och kopplar detta till det tvärvetenskapliga temat demokrati och medborgarskap. Detta tema är centralt i den nyligen reviderade läroplanen i Norge och är en viktig del av skolans mandat – utbildning måste säkerställa att eleverna är redo att delta i ett demokratiskt samhälle med kunskap, färdigheter och kritiskt tänkande när de har avslutat gymnasiet. När man arbetar med litteratur på detta sätt är det möjligt att integrera kompetens och bildning i klassrummet: specifik kunskap och kompetensutveckling kopplas till en värdebaserad utbildning som syftar till att hjälpa studenter i deras individuella utveckling.
Brevik, Lisbeth M. & Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2020). The role of literature in the English classroom . In Brevik, Lisbeth M. & Rindal, Ulrikke Elisabeth (Ed.), Teaching English in Norwegian classrooms: From research to practice. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215032283. p. 163–189.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2019). Utopian nature and dystopian culture: Ecocritical readings of Julie Bertagna's Exodus and Zenith. Utopian Studies. ISSN 1045-991X. 30(2), p. 238–251. doi: 10.5325/utopianstudies.30.2.0238. Show summary
This article discusses ecocritical aspects of two contemporary young adult dystopian novels: Julie Bertagna's Exodus and Zenith. It explores how these novels link utopia to nature, especially the rural pastoral, and dystopia to culture, especially urbanism and technology. The novels are set in the near future and address the protagonist's search for a new home after the old has been destroyed. Greenland represents an ecological, utopian hope: a place where humans can coexist with nature and rebuild society. Contrasting with the utopian Greenland is the technological city New Mungo, which is elitist, totalitarian, and brutally dystopian—but also sustainable despite its syntheticity and ecological in its own sense. Greenland and New Mungo are connected to the ecocritical dualism of nature versus culture, and the societies' closeness to nature determines whether they are seen as utopian or dystopian.

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Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2024). Picturebooks in the climate-ready primary classroom: Preliminary findings and classroom suggestions.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2024). Creating space for developing environmental awareness by using picturebooks in the primary English classroom.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise & Sandhaug, Christina (2023). Literature, Teacher Education and the Climate-ready Classroom (L-TECC): A project in progress.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2023). Critical literacy, reading and literature in lower secondary English.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2023). Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature: Gender and Power in Louise O’Neill’s Young Adult Fiction. International Research in Children's Literature (IRCL). ISSN 1755-6198. 16(3), p. 364–365.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2023). Sustainability and humanity: What young readers can learn from Julie Bertagna’s Exodus. The Bottle Imp.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise & Kleppe, Sandra Lee (2022). Literature, teacher education and climate change.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2022). The importance of teaching beyond the Western literary canon.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2022). Memory and trauma in Cashore's Bitterblue.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2019). Bildung and literature in subject English.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2018). Lesingens verdi: Litteraturens rolle i engelskfaget.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2017). The Arctic Utopia in Julie Bertagna’s Exodus and Zenith.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2017). More than a piece in their Games: Music as a tool of agency and rebellion in contemporary young adult dystopian novels.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2015). The translator as a (failed) cultural interpreter: The Norwegian translation(s) of Zadie Smith's NW.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2014). Kamau Brathwaite og den karibiske søken etter frihet. RISS : magasin for studentar og tilsette ved Institutt for nordistikk og litteraturvitskap, Universitetet i Trondheim. ISSN 0806-5063.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise (2019). English teachers' choices and beliefs about literature in the Norwegian upper secondary classroom. Høgskolen i Innlandet. ISSN 978-82-8380-130-9.
Lyngstad, Marit Elise; Davies, Rebecca & Løfaldli, Eli (2012). Originality, Intertextuality and Subjective Reading: Cormac McCarthy's The Road as an appropriation of J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K. Norges Teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet.

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Addresses

Visiting Address

Alf Prøysens Hus (Hovedbygg fløy C nyeste del)
Holsetgata 31, N-2318 Hamar
Room 2C257-5
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Postal Address

Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Postboks 400 Vestad
2418 Elverum
Norway