Associate Professor
Sarah Hoem Iversen
Field of work
- Associate Professor in English language and literature
- I teach pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and Master students.
- D.Phil (PhD) from the University of Oxford, dissertation title: "Ideologies of Childhood and Education in Monolingual English Children's Dictionaries 1750-1870"
- I am on the editorial team of the Nordic Journal of Childlit Aesthetics: https://www.idunn.no/journal/blft
Courses taught
- English linguistics
- Children's and young adult literature
- English as a Foreign Language (EFL) pedagogy
- Formative assessment and feedback
Research areas
- Children's dictionaries
- Historical lexicography
- Language, gender, sexuality, and ideology/power
- Nonfiction picturebooks for children
- Constructions of childhood in children's texts
- Assessment for learning
- Formative feedback on writing in English
Research groups
- Discourses of Gender and Sexuality (DoGS)
- Researching Teacher Education, Language and Literature (RETELL)
- ENB801, English 1, module 1 - Language teaching, 25/26
- FOR031, English, Fall 2025
- MDIP503, Pedagogical practices, 25/26
- MGBEN550, English 3, module 4 - Master’s thesis, 25/26
- MGUEN301, English 2, module 1 - Diversity in Culture, Language and Text, 25/26, subject responsible
- MGUEN501, English 3, module 1 - Teaching and Learning English, 25/26
- MGUEN503, English 3, module 3 - Diversities and Change in English language, literature, and culture , 25/26
- MKUF501A, Literature in arts education, 25/26
Publications
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Creating “a Little Garden of Our Own”: Constructions of Childhood and Knowledge About Gardening in Frances Burnett’s The Secret Garden (1911) and Arthur Mee’s The Children’s Encyclopaedia (1910)
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Student teachers’ reactions to formative teacher and peer feedback
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Elina Druker, Björn Sundmark, Åsa Warnqvist och Mia Österlund (red.), Silence and Silencing in Children’s Literature
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Teaching Children “Their Duty to God and Man”: Religion and Roman Catholicism in English Nineteenth-century Children's Dictionaries
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The (re)presentation of knowledge about gender in children’s picture dictionaries
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