Kristine Marie Berg

Short presentation

My research interests cover political rhetoric and public debate.

My research focus on norms of rhetorical action, how these norms create or inhibit participation, and in how the way we talk and write to and about each other creates and breaks down communities.

My curiosity is piqued by taken-for-granted conceptions of what it means to communicate well and by unconventional and unexpected forms of rhetorical practice.

I am also interested in how textual analyses can be supplemented by other methods such as interviews, participant observation and protocol analysis.

I currently work on a project about hate mails.

Teaching

I have taught the following obligatory courses in the Rhetoric program: Rhetorical criticism (BA), Rhetoric in Society (BA), Speech Workshop (BA), Contemporary Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives (MA)

I have also taught the elective course Poliical Rhetoric and Humour (MA)

I have supervised BA-projects about inter alia polysemy, framing and online activism. And I have supervised MA-theses about inter alia Mugabe and establishment of ethos and about Nelson Mandela and his use of narratives.

CV

MA in rhetoric, PhD in rhetoric

Education

PhD-degree, 2011. Dissertation: ”Intercultural Dialogue” as Rhetorical Form: A Pyrrhic Victory (2011). A rhetorical criticism of the EU's and the member states' strategies to create intercultural dialogue and a number of citizens' responses.

MA, 2005. Section of Rhetoric, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen. Elective: Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. As part of my MA I studied one year at the University of California, San Diego

Academic employment

2017-         Associate professor of Rhetoric, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen

2013-2017 Assistant professor of Rhetoric, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen

2012-2013 Research assistant, Section of Rhetoric, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen. Tasks: Planning and teaching the following courses: Speech workshop and Public speaking

2007-2011 Ph.d fellow, Section of Rhetoric, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen. As part of my phd-studies I spend three months at the Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Centre for Dialogue experiments with new forms of political participation

2006          Reseacrh assistent for Professor of Rhetoric Christian Kock in his work with the book De svarer ikke (Gyldendal, 2011)