Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen

About

I am a postdoctoral scholar specializing in British and Scandinavian eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultural history (see research interests below).

I completed my PhD at NTNU in 2019, with a thesis exploring the impact of news mediation on one of history's most fraught political debates, namely the English 'Revolution Controversy' sparked by the French Revolution in the 1790s. I am now Postdoctoral Fellow within a research project exploring the historical and cultural roots of European state-sanctioned lotteries (https://www.ntnu.no/blogger/lotteryfantasy/). The project is funded by The Research Council of Norway for the period of 2022–2024.

My individual postdoctoral work examines debates surrounding state-sanctioned lotteries in Scandinavia, with an emphasis on the tensions between the moral and sociopolitical implications of gambling and the financial and political development of modern European states. Adopting a comparative and transmedial approach, I explore a wide range of historical and literary sources in order to determine how state-sanctioned lotteries were negotiated both by the governing authorities and a larger public in Sweden and Denmark-Norway (Norway after 1814) in the period 1750-1920.

Research groups

The Invention of the Lottery Fantasy: A Cultural, Transnational and Transmedial History of European Lotteries (https://www.ntnu.no/blogger/lotteryfantasy/)

Literary and Cultural Eighteenth-Century Studies (LACES)

Research interests

Scandinavian and British eighteenth-century studies
The history of communications; book- and media history
Cultural history; especially 'political culture', 'print culture'; public debate
The history and culture of the Enlightenment and Romantic period
The history of political ideas
The French Revolution Controversy in Britain
The history of European lotteries
Digital humanities

Publications

2018

Kristiansen, Johanne. (2018) Foreign News Reporting in Transition: James Perry and the French Constitution Ceremony. Brill Academic Publishers
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2013

Kristiansen, Johanne; Goring, Paul. (2013) Fighting for Reform The politicisation of the Monthly Review in the aftermath of the French Revolution, 1791-1802. NTNU
Masters thesis

Journal publications

Kristiansen, Johanne. (2021) Newspaper Debates in Late Eighteenth-Century England: ‘Letters to the Editor’ versus the Political Pamphlet. Journal of European Periodical Studies
Academic article
Kristiansen, Johanne. (2020) The Financing of Political Newspaper Commentary in Late Eighteenth-Century England: Who Paid for the ‘Letter to the Editor’?. Media History
Academic article
Kristiansen, Johanne. (2019) Who Contributed to Late-Eighteenth-Century English Newspapers? Authorship, Accessibility and Public Debate (1790–92). Authorship
Academic article

Part of book/report

Kristiansen, Johanne. (2018) Foreign News Reporting in Transition: James Perry and the French Constitution Ceremony. Brill Academic Publishers
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Report

Kristiansen, Johanne; Goring, Paul Michael; Guest, Harriet. (2019) Revolutionary Reports: Newspapers and Expanding Information Networks in the 1790s . Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (2019/167)
Doctoral dissertation
Kristiansen, Johanne; Goring, Paul. (2013) Fighting for Reform The politicisation of the Monthly Review in the aftermath of the French Revolution, 1791-1802. NTNU
Masters thesis

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