Arild Michel Bakken
Associate Professor
Contact
Telephone: 51832984
Email: arild.m.bakken@uis.no
Room: OD B-24100
Department
Faculty of Arts and Education
National Centre for Reading Education and Research
About me
I hold a PhD in Literature from the University of Paris-Sorbonne, and the University of Oslo (co-tutelle). My work in that field has contributed to changing the image of the 19th century poet Mallarmé from that of an ivory tower poet absent from his poetry to that of an engaged poet making active use of his own persona in his poetry. To this end, I developed an analytical framework based on hermeneutics and rhetoric. My PhD thesis was published as a research monograph by Honoré Champion (Bakken, 2018).
My current research is focusing on reading, writing and technology. I am project manager for the ongoing Erasmus+ cooperation partnership AILIT - AI Literacy Network in Primary Education, where we are building an AI-driven platform scaffolding students' reading and writing using recommender systems, topic modelling and machine translation. I am also project manager for the reading part of the ongoing NRC-funded project Adaptvurder, investigating the possibility for making an adaptive reading test for 3rd grade, based on modelling of skill through IRT. I am also a team member in the group developing new screening tests in reading for 1st and 3rd grade on behalf of the Directorate for Education and Training, and a work package leader in the ongoing NRC-funded innovation project Read to me, aiming to develop a platform assisting teachers’ monitoring of struggling readers. I am in the steering group for Stavanger AI Lab and I am an editor in the Nordic Journal of Literacy Research.
I teach and run professional development workshops for in-service teachers in the field of literacy instruction.
Positions:
2018- Associate Professor, Literacy Studies, Norwegian Reading Centre, University of Stavanger, Norway
2016-2018 French and Norwegian teacher, various institutions in Belgium (Norwegian School in Brussels, Waterloo; Centrum voor levende talen, Leuven; CVOPRO, Aalst; Private teacher, Brussels)
2015-2016 Research Fellow, French Literature, University of Oslo, Norway
Education:
2015: PhD, French Literature (co-tutelle), University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and University of Oslo
2010: MA, French Literature, University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
2006: BA, Modern Literature, Paul Valéry University (Montpellier III)
Publications:
• Bakken, A. M., Gourvennec, A. F., Walgermo, B., Solheim, O. J., Foldnes, N., Uppstad, P. H. (2023). Adaptvurder: Study protocol for an upcoming adaptive reading test. Nordic Journal of Literacy Research. https://doi.org/10.23865/njlr.v9.2906
• Berge, I.M., Bakken, A. M., Skaftun, A. (2023). På sporet av faglighet i begynneropplæringen: tekstsamtaler i norskfaget. Nordic Journal of Literacy Research. https://doi.org/10.23865/njlr.v9.4038
• Bakken, A. M. (2021). «La présence de Mallarmé ». In B. Marchal, T. Roger, J.-L. Steinmetz (ed.), Spectres de Mallarmé (p. 183-189). Hermann.
• Bakken, A. M. (2019). « L’oralité chez Mallarmé ». In P. Durand and B. Bohac (ed.), Mallarmé au monde : Le spectacle de la matière (p. 183-195). Hermann.
• Bakken, A. M. (2018). La présence de Mallarmé. Honoré Champion.
• Bakken, A. M. (2016). « Mallarmé : diktaren sitt nærvære ». Norsk litteraturvitenskapelig tidsskrift, 1.
• Bakken, A. M. (2014). « La figure du lecteur : l’auditoire auctorial dans les Poésies de Mallarmé ». In T. Roger (ed.), Mallarmé herméneute.
• Bakken, A. M. (2011). « Textual Self-branding : the Rhetorical Ethos in Mallarmé’s Divagations », Authorship, 1, 1.