Meet the Author/Meet the Translator with Drs. Nana Osei- Kofi and Olivia Gunn

Speakers

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  Dr. Nana Osei-Kofi

  Nana Osei-Kofi, PhD, originally from Gothenburg, Sweden, is Professor Emerita of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the School of Language, Culture, and Society at Oregon State University.

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  Dr. Nana Osei-Kofi

  Nana Osei-Kofi, PhD, originally from Gothenburg, Sweden, is Professor Emerita of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the School of Language, Culture, and Society at Oregon State University.

  Her research centers on two primary lines of inquiry focused on justice and the politics of difference. One line examines structural shifts in higher education to promote equity and access, emphasizing curriculum transformation, change leadership, and faculty recruitment, retention, and development. The second line explores the experiences and conditions faced by people of African descent in Europe, with a focus on Sweden. Her most recent publication, AfroSwedish Places of Belonging, was published by Northwestern University Press earlier this year as part of their Critical Insurgencies series.

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  Dr. Olivia Noble Gunn

  Olivia Noble Gunn, PhD, is an associate professor and the Sverre Arestad Endowed Chair in Norwegian Studies in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.

  Bio
  

  Dr. Olivia Noble Gunn

  Olivia Noble Gunn, PhD, is an associate professor and the Sverre Arestad Endowed Chair in Norwegian Studies in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.

  She is the author of Empty Nurseries, Queer Occupants: Reproduction and the Future in Ibsen's Late Plays (2020) and the translator of Camara Lundestad Joof's I Talk about It All the Time.

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  Dr. Temi Odumosu

  Temi Odumosu, PhD, is an art historian and curator at the University of Washington Information School, who is empowering the next generation of information professionals and technologists by centering imagination, empathy, and wellbeing.

  Bio
  

  Dr. Temi Odumosu

  Temi Odumosu, PhD, is an art historian and curator at the University of Washington Information School, who is empowering the next generation of information professionals and technologists by centering imagination, empathy, and wellbeing.

  She spent a decade working in the Nordic countries interrogating the visual politics and legacies of colonialism and developing reparative memorialization practices in collaboration with contemporary artists, designers, and curators. Examples of this work include the participatory sound installation What Lies Unspoken: Sounding the colonial archive (2017) at the Royal Danish Library and Statens Museum for Kunst; and the exhibition Threshold(s) (2019) at the Center for Art on Migration Politics in Copenhagen. Dr. Odumosu’s current research is examining descriptive practices for cultural heritage collections and reimagining more ethical ways of representing challenging historical collections online. Recent writing includes her essay “Feeling in the Dark: Rediscovering Black Portraiture as Speculative Metadata” (2023) on Peter Brathwaite’s photographic performances, and the working document “Approaching colonial photographs with care” (2024) for the Digital Benin project.