Publications

SELECTED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Tveit, Marta. 2025. “Etterord: Purgatorius, stjernekikking og våre vidunderlige begrensninger.” Nytt norsk tidsskrift 42 (1):51-57.

Tveit, Marta Mboka, 2024. “Resonances in engagement with climate change in contemporary Anglo-African and Norwegian speculative fictions.” Philosophiae Doctor (PhD), Department of Culture, religion, Asia and Middle-easterns studies University of Oslo.

Tveit, Marta. 2024. “‘What is left behind’: Extractivism in Blå by M. Lunde and “The Satellite Charmer” by M. B. Diene ” In Nordic Speculative Fiction: Research, Theory, and Practice, edited by Jyrki Korpua, Hanna-Riikka Roine, Marta Tveit and Aino-Kaisa Koistinen. UK: Routledge.

Tveit, Marta. 2024. “Meshwork Ecology: Climate and Colonialism in Diene’s Hell Freezes Over and Ruga’s Public Service Announcement.” Science Fiction Studies: Special Issue on African speculative Fiction 51 (3):435-455.

Tveit, Marta. 2024. ““Safe in each other’s scaly arms”: Solace, Oddkinship, and the Third Position in African Speculative Texts.” In Animals in Science Fiction, edited by Nora Castle and Giulia Champion, 39-58. USA: Springer.

Tveit, Marta. 2014. “Framing the West in Zimbabwean State-Controlled Newspapers. MA thesis, Global Media and Postnational Communications. School of Oriental and African Studies.

SELECTED ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

Krussedullehår og samfunnet Utrop Flerkulturelle Magasin, februar 2025.

Achille Mbembe og Magnus Lagabøte ville hatt mye å snakke om – Morgenbladet 14.06.2024 (paywall)

Fantasien vil redde kloden | Klassekampen 10.09.2022 (paywall)

Kua mi, jeg takker deg | Klassekampen 23.07.2022 (paywall)

Fremmed i en fremmeds verden | Morgenbladet 15.07.2022 

Evolution of the norwegian speculative hero. Science Norway 16.04.2022.

Notat om Underingslitteratur”, Klassekampen, march 2022. 

“I lyset fra Mars”, Morgenbladet, Februar 2022. (“Bokanmeldelse: Ny antologi med norsk science fiction”) (paywall)

“Makeshift Modernity” – article. Africa is a Country, 2021. (“The rise of African Speculative Fiction and other exciting cultural production indicates that modernity is not an exercise in “catching up” with Europe, but an entirely new condition.”)

Fairytale’s end: A future museum honoring the end of the Norwegian oil age Klassekampen, 14.09.2021.

Diaspora blues | Klassekampen 14.08.2021 (paywall)

Decolonization: The view from the North” ECDPM Great Insights Magazine, March 2021.

The problem with post-race comedy  Africa is a Country, August 2022.

Der vår klimafiksjon bærer preg av melankoli, har de afrikanske tekstene en sint og seig energi, skriver Marta Tveit.  June 2020. Morgenbladet

Da Vinje traff en Afrikaner på Dovre. Afrika.no Juli, 2019.

Et forgjeves, usakelig og høyst forgjengelig forsøk på å definere Third Culture Kids Panorama Nyheter, December 2018.

FULL WRITING PORTFOLIO HERE: Marta Tveit – Writing Portfolio

PODCASTS

Lecture on African speculative fiction  Litteraturhuset 2022. 

Podcast series on Norwegian african diasporic identities Africa.no, 2021.

Kween søker konge (on trans queer zimbabwean students), SAIH, february 2021. 

Historietime: Dronning Nzinga  Fellesrådet for Afrika Afripod, 2020. 

Historietime: Shaka Zulu Fellesrådet for Afrika Afripod, 2020. 

Series on Decolonization: Decolonizing the mind. Fellesrådet for Afrika Afripod, 2020.