Alexandra Petrulevich

Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor at Department of Scandinavian Languages

Telephone:
+46 18 471 12 77
E-mail:
alexandra.petrulevich@nordiska.uu.se
Visiting address:
Thunbergsvägen 3L, hus 16, plan 2
Institutionen för nordiska språk
Postal address:
Uppsala universitet
Institutionen för nordiska språk, Box 527
751 20 UPPSALA

Short presentation

Docent/Associate Professor in Scandinavian Languages

Keywords

  • digital humanities
  • digital research infrastructures
  • east norse
  • gis for language study
  • language contact
  • language history
  • large-scale cadastral maps of the swedish empire
  • manuscripts
  • medieval literature
  • norse perception of the world
  • old norse
  • onomastics
  • place-name policymaking
  • research infrastructure
  • scandinavian languages
  • spatial humanities
  • spatiality

Biography

Appointments

6/2022– Researcher in the infrastructure project Digitization of the West Norse Manuscripts in Swedish
Collections
(Riksbankens jubileumsfond, IN21-0003), Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University

1/2022– PI of the NOS-HS project Linking, Building and Sustaining Humanities Digital Spatial Infrastructures for Research in the Nordic Countries (NOS-HS, 345105), Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University

10/2021– Associate Senior Lecturer, Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University

6/2021– PI of the project Swedifying the other: place-name policymaking in the large-scale cadastral maps of the Swedish Empire (Riksbankens jubileumsfond, P20-0105), Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University

2/2021–9/2021 Senior Lecturer, Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University

3/2017–1/2021 Researcher in the digital humanities infrastructure project Norse perception of the world: A mapping and analysis of foreign place names in medieval Swedish and Danish texts (Riksbankens jubileumsfond, IN16-0093:1), Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University

Responsibilities:

  • Project manager (2017–2021)
  • Project leader for a network project within spatial humanities, GIS for language study (LanGIS)
  • Responsible for communication and cooperation with the Uppsala University's IT Department
  • Responsible for design input for a database and a website for external users
  • Responsible for excerpting location based data from medieval Old Swedish manuscripts
  • Responsible for social media

11/2018– Parental leave

11/2017–1/2018 Part-time lecturer, Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Stockholm University

8/2016–2/2017 Lecturer, Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Stockholm University

8–10/2016 Part-time lecturer, Department of Scandinavian languages, Department of linguistics and philology, Uppsala University

1/2011–5/2016 PhD position, Department of Scandinavian languages, Uppsala university

International work experience

  • A number of papers and talks at international conferences and guest lectures at universities abroad (2011–2018), latest: The 17th International Saga Conference, Reykjavík and Reykholt, Iceland, 12–17/8 2018
  • Field work on place names in Pomerania, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Greifswald (autumn term 2013)
  • Work with manuscripts of Knýtlinga saga at Nordisk Forskningsinstitut, Copenhagen (autumn term 2012)
  • Work with manuscripts of Knýtlinga saga at Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum och Landsbókasafn Íslands, Reykjavík (8/2011)

Qualifications

Commisions of trust

Former commisions of trust and departmental service

Research

Ongoing projects

Digitization of the West Norse Manuscripts in Swedish Collections (Riksbankens jubileumsfond, IN21-0003), Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University
Project leader: Lasse Mårtensson

NOS-HS project Linking, Building and Sustaining Humanities Digital Spatial Infrastructures for Research in the Nordic Countries (NOS-HS, 345105), Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University
Project leader: Alexandra Petrulevich

Swedifying the other: place-name policymaking in the large-scale cadastral maps of the Swedish Empire (Riksbankens jubileumsfond, P20-0105), Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University
Project leader: Alexandra Petrulevich

Norse perception of the world: A mapping and analysis of foreign place names in medieval Swedish and Danish texts, Department of Scandinavian languages, Uppsala university, a three year digital humanities infrastructure project (2017–2020).
Project leader: Jonathan Adams

Responsibilities:

  • Project leader for a network project within spatial humanities, GIS for language study (LanGIS)
  • Responsible for communication cooperation with the Uppsala University's IT Department
  • Responsible for design input for a database and a website for external users
  • Responsible for excerpting location based data from medieval Old Swedish manuscripts
  • Responsible for social media

Finished projects

GIS for language study (LanGIS), Faculty of Languages, Uppsala University, a two year network initiative within spatial humanities (2017–2019). As a project leader I have main responsibility for:

  • planning and carrying out of the network's activities
  • project's economy and administration
  • communication between the network's members and other actors at Uppsala University and other universities

Research interests

  • Digital humanities in general and spatial humanities in particular
  • Spatiality in Scandinavian Viking Age and medieval material
  • Development of name politics in Sweden (at the time of the Swedish Empire and later)
  • History of Scandinavian and Germanic languages and language change through language contact
  • Onomastics (name research), especially contact onomastics, name replication and name adaptation
  • Scandinavian philology and Old Icelandic sagas
  • Runology

Publications

Recent publications

All publications

Articles

Books

Chapters

Conferences

Other

Alexandra Petrulevich

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