Marta Tveit My work has generally centered on (de)coloniality and identity in relation to climate change and nature-culture, with a cosmopolitan approach to both Nordic and (Sub-Saharan) African contemporary texts and discourses.

My recently concluded PhD-research took an ecocritical look at African and Norwegian speculative fiction. Artifacts thematizing the future, and the people who create them, can tell us something about how current global crises are comprehended, contemplated and reimagined in different cultural contexts. We need to further understand what "wicked problems" look like through (g)local prisms, in order to better understand presents. My research mapped two emerging subgenres, and explored their engagement with the nonhuman through refusals, repentances and (re)emerging ecosophies. It asks: what work is futuring doing now that the alarming realities of climate change are upon us? 

My academic background is in media-studies and African-studies, where I focused on  East and southern Africa. Additionally, I have a  few years behind me as a freelancer in journalism and content-production. Among other projects, I have created a podcast-series about young Norwegian-African identity, a series about being young and queer in Zimbabwe (SAIH) and edited the anthology "Foul play in the Congo" on the French and Moland case (see digital portfolio here).