Competences
Teaching areas: text analysis, contemporary literature including children and young adult literature, literature history, literary theory and literature didactics. Multimodal texts. Humanitarian aid communication.
Member of the USN research groups Litteratur og litteraturdidaktikk and Litteratur og film.
CV
Relevant work experience
Associate Professor of Norwegian, University of Southeastern Norway, 2019-
Research Fellow, University of Oslo, 2017-2018
Teacher at Røyken videregående (high school), 2013-2014
University lecturer (online), Volda University College, 2012
University lecturer, University of Oslo, 2010-2012
Relevant education:
Doctoral thesis at the Department of Linguistics and Nordic Studies, in the project Scandinavian narratives of guilt and privilege in a time of globalization (ScanGuilt), University of Oslo, 2018. The thesis "Who cares?" Global solidarity and guilt in Operasjon Dagsverk's material examines a selection of solidarity campaign material and 24 collected student texts.
University pedagogical competence, University of Oslo, 2018
Practical-pedagogical education (PPU). University of Oslo, 2013.
Master's degree in Nordic literature at the Department of Linguistics and Nordic Studies, in the project Cosmopolitanism, post-nationalism and the cultural self in recent literature, University of Oslo. Master's thesis Novel and identity in the nation's imagined community - an analysis of Jan Kjærstad's The King of Europe (2005), Jonas Hassen Khemiris Montecore. A unique tiger (2006) and Kirsten Hammann's A drop in the sea (2008) discuss contemporary Nordic novels in the light of theories about national identity, gender and ethnicity.
Bachelor in cultural and social studies. University of Oslo, 2008. Emphasis on the subjects Nordic literature, rhetoric, and media & communication.
Publications
Selected publications
Frøjd, Y. & Sandberg, K.L. 2023. Litterær eller lærarfagleg analyse? Om skilnader og nytteverdi i litteraturdidaktisk arbeid. Norsklæreren 4/2023.
Frøjd, Y., Norendal, A. & Olsen, L.W. 2023. Å utdannes til litteraturlærer – grunnskolelærerstudentens litterære erfaringer og profesjonens krav til litterær kompetanse. Norsk pedagogisk tidsskrift. Vol. 107, utg. 3.
Frøjd, Y. 2022. Klimakrisa i klasserommet. Kontroversielle, emosjonelle og sensitive tema i skolen. Goldschmidt-Gjerløw, B., Eriksen, K.G. og Jore, M.K. (red.). Universitetsforlaget.
Frøjd, Y. 2021. Sårbarhet i Maja Lundes Bienes historie. Litteratur og sårbarhet. Dancus, A.M., Linhart, S.H., Myhr, A.B. (red).
Frøjd, Y. 2018. “Global dannelse i møte med Operasjon Dagsverks testimonials”. Norsklæreren 2/2018.
Frøjd, Y. 2018. Who Cares? Operation Day’s Work’s Booklet Covers as Appeals for Humanitarian Aid. I The Happiest People on Earth? Scandinavian Narratives of Guilt and Discontent. Scandinavian Studies. Special Issue. DOI: 10.5406/scanstud.89.issue-4, s. 548-572.
Frøjd, Y. 2017. Solidaritet og bistand. En undersøkelse av hvordan elevtekster går i dialog med Operasjon Dagsverks temahefte 2015 om seksuelle rettigheter. I Åpne dører mot verden. Norske ungdommers møte med fortellinger om skyld og privilegier. Bakken, J. og Oxfeldt, E. (Red.). Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
Frøjd, Y. 2016. “Leve Vesten, la oss fortsette festen”. En retorisk analyse av Operasjon Dagsverks kampanjefilm (2014). I Skandinaviske fortellinger om skyld og privilegier i en globaliseringstid. Oxfeldt, E. (Red.) Universitetsforlaget.