Alexandra Petrulevich

Short presentation

Docent/Associate Professor in Scandinavian Languages

Keywords

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

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

• PhD in Scandinavian languages/onomastics (2011–2016) Doctoral dissertation: Place-name adaptation as a process. An investigation of Wendish place-names and place-name variants in Knýtlinga saga Department of Scandinavian languages, Uppsala university
• MA in linguistics and translation studies (2000–2006)
• Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russia.

Commisions of trust

• Member of the external reference group for Centre for Digital Humanities Uppsala, 2018–.
• Board member of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences, 2017–.
• Board member of Ortnamnssällskapet i Uppsala, Uppsala, 2017–.
• Nomination committee member of Isländska sällskapet, Uppsala, 2020–.

Former commisions of trust and departmental service

• Chair of Junior Faculty, Uppsala university, 2021.
• Faculty of Languages' representative in UpGIS, 2018–2021.
• Board member of Junior Faculty, Uppsala university, 2017–2021.
• Board member of Isländska sällskapet, Uppsala, 2013–2020.
• Member of Department's Doctoral Student Association's nominating committee, spring term 2014.
• Head of Department's Doctoral Student Association, 2012–2013.
• Treasurer of Humanistiska doktorandrådet, 2011–2013.
• Member of Humanistiska doktorandrådet's nominating committee, spring term 2013.
• Representative of the department in Humanistiska doktorandrådet, 2011–2013.
• Humanistiska doktorandrådet's representative in FUGA (The Faculty Board of Education), 2011–2013.
• Representative in the Faculty of Languages' Gender Equality Group, 2011–2013.

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