Academic interests
Marta has worked within cultural theory, in the contact zones between power, identity and the planetary "in-common". Her PhD took an ecocritical look at contemporary Anglo-African and Norwegian speculative fictions, and its creators.
Empirically speaking, she has generally taken a macro-level approach to examining contemporary texts and discourses, their meanings and material entanglements, especially those emerging from the Nordics and southern and East Africa. Anthropocene discourses, colonial histories and their reverberations, cross-cultural identities, cosmopolitanism and planetarity, environmental justice and related social movements, political philosophies and artistic practices, as well as decolonial and anti-colonial mobilizations are some of the topics she has engaged with.
Recently she has begun to explore speculation and anticipation in relation to resource management and the energy transition with the Unruliness research group.
Courses taught
<KULKOM1100 – Forståelsesformer og Perspektiver >
<KULKOM3090 – Oppgaveemne i kultur og kommunikasjon >
<SGO1004 – Felt og Skrivetrening>
<EHS4020 – Decolonizing Ecology > (no longer running)
Background
Marta has previously worked in journalism and content-production within the development industry. She has written regularly in a culture column for Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen, and continues to write sporadically for various publications. Among other projects, she recently published a children's book on hair and identity, and a podcast-series about young Norwegian-African identity (see full digital portfolio here).
Marta defended a PhD at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Oslo in 2025.
Education
- PhD | University of Oslo, Cultural Studies (IKOS), 2021-2025
- MSc | University of Oxford, MSc African Studies, 2016 - 2017
- MA | SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies, MA Global Media and Postnational Communication, 2013 - 2014
- BA | University College Maastricht, BA Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2009 - 2011