Mats Haraldsen

Doctoral Research Fellow - French Literature and Culture

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Email mats.haraldsen@ilos.uio.no

Phone +47 22844903

Room NT930

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Visiting address Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 Niels Treschows hus 0316 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1003 Blindern 0316 Oslo

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Academic interests

My project investigates how novels by Georges Perec, Lydie Salvayre, Kamel Daoud and Patrick Modiano explore memories of past events, both individual and collective. Drawing on second-generation cognitive science and memory studies, I explore how these writers extend their memory processes through their novels, and how such extended remembering brings new meaning and content into their reenactments of the past.

Background

2020: MA in Comparative Literature
2019: MA in French Literature

Awards

2020: Recipient of the UiO sustainability prize (in Norwegian) for best MA thesis

Haraldsen, Mats (2025). Making Sense of the Past Together. Collaborative Remembering in Cry, Mother Spain. Poetics Today. ISSN 0333-5372.
Haraldsen, Mats (2023). Extended Remembering: Georges Perec and Writing as Thinking. Style. ISSN 0039-4238. 57(1), p. 11–33. doi: 10.5325/style.57.1.0011.
Haraldsen, Mats (2021). Coming together: Embodied and pre-reflective interaction in The Plague. Orbis Litterarum. ISSN 0105-7510. doi: 10.1111/oli.12322. Full text in Research Archive

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Haraldsen, Mats (2020). Sustainable literature: Fiction and the mind. Oslo SDG Blog.