CV

Education
2023   PhD, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

2017   MA in Rhetoric, University of Copenhagen

2013   BA in Rhetoric (Elective in Performance Design at Roskilde University), University of Copenhagen

Memberships
Board member of the Faroese abortion rights initiative, Frítt Val

Board member of the creative writing school, Dagbogsskolen.

Member of Rhetoric Society of America (RSA).

Member of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR).

Conference presentations
Rhetorical Reproductive Citizenship: Developing a concept. Paper presentation together with Turið Hermannsdóttir. The Danish Gender Conference, CBS, 4th of September 2024.

“Abort. Grundgevingar fyri rættinum at velja sjálv”. Book presentation together with Turið Hermannsdóttir. The Danish Gender Conference, CBS, 4th of September 2024.

Hjálond og skyldskapur: Keynote together with Nanna Schneidermann Thorsteinsson at Ráðstevna um skyldskap, Føroya Fólkaháskúli, 6th of September, 2024

Against European Rhetoric. Paper presentation together with Frederik Appel Olsen and Frida Hviid Broberg. Nordisk Konference for Retorisk Forskning 9, University of Copenhagen, 10th of October, 2024.

Against European Rhetoric. 9. Nordisk Konference i Retorisk Forskning, University of Copenhagen. 9-11th of October 2024

Just Bodies: Abortion rights, Displacement and the Doxastic Chōra in Danish media depictions of the Faroe Islands. Rhetoric Society of America’s Biannual Conference. Denver, CO, US. 23-26th of May 2024.

Turbulence in the Abortion Landscape. Reproductive Technologies and the Remaking of Dying and Death Conference. Aalborg University, Denmark, 24-25th of August 2023.

Rhetorical reproductive citizenship: transformations in the discourse on abortion in the Faroe Islands. National Communication Association’s 108th annual conference: Honouring PLACE. New Orleans, LA, US. 17-20th of November 2022.

Decorum i rigsfælleskabet: journalistik der går over grænsen. 8. Nordiske konference for Retorisk Forskning, Örebro University, 12-14th of October 2022.

Retorisk tavshed som fredsbevarende strategi: politiske konflikter mellem Færøerne og Danmark i danske medier. 7. Nordiske konference for Retorisk Forskning, Universitetet i Bergen, 18-20th of September 2019.

List of publications (including forthcoming)
- Peer-reviewed:
Nolsøe, T. & L. Nolsøe (in review): Fremskrivning af færøsk aborthistorie: en materiel-retorisk arkivanalyse. Kvinder, køn & forskning 2024, 2.

Nolsøe, T. (in review): I, we – and the other: maneuvering between a professional and national position in political journalism. Journalism Practice, special issue.

Hermannsdóttir, T. & T. Nolsøe. (in review). “The Faroe Islands will handle this themselves”: The Convergence of Bodily and National Autonomy in Abortion Rights Discussions. Fróðskaparrit, special issue on human rights in a Faroese context.

Nolsøe, T. (2024). “Tað rætta orðið. Málsligar hugsjónir í føroyska abortkjakinum (En The right word. Linguistic ideologies in the Faroese abortion debate).” In Abort - Grundgevingar Fyri Rættinum at Velja Sjálv. Sprotin. 198–209.

Hermannsdóttir, T. & T. Nolsøe (eds.). (2024). Abort - grundgevingar fyri rættinum at velja sjálv. (En. Abortion. Arguments for the right to choose). Sprotin.

Nolsøe, T. (2023). Biopolitisk deliberation: Den færøske abortbevægelse som retorisk, reproduktivt medborgerskab (En. Biopolitical deliberation: The Faroese abortion rights movement as rhetorical reproductive citizenship). Rhetorica Scandinavica, 86.

Nolsøe, T. (2023). “Sent to Denmark”. Exclusion and isolation in the exofictional play Lykkenborg by Det Ferösche Compagnie. In B. Hamre & L. Villadsen (Eds.), Islands of Extreme Exclusion. Studies on Global Practices of Isolation, Punishment, and Education of the Unwanted. Brill.

Nolsøe, T. (2023). Autonomy’s double bind. The rhetorical intersection of geopolitics and biopolitics in Danish media’s coverage of Faroese abortion rights. Ph.d.- thesis. University of Copenhagen, Department of Communication.

Nolsøe, T. (2018). Látur Medusu (En. The Laugther of Medusa). (Translation of Hélène Cixous’ Le Rire de la Méduse) Sprotin.

- Non-peer-reviewed publications
Vinder, K. (2025). “Social kontrol". Kvinde Kend Din Krop. Gyldendal.

Nolsøe, T. (2024). Castle of Joy – a place at the intersection of disability and coloniality. (Publication of theatre manuscript in English on the occasion of the play Lykkenborg being performed at the Barbican in London February 2024).

Nolsøe, T. (2022). Mangelen på fri abort på Færøerne er ikke en nyhed, Videnskab.dk.

Nolsøe, T. (2022). Rúmandi list (En. Spacious art). Dimmalætting.

Nolsøe, T. (2019). Hamlet leikar við veruleikan í sjónleiki (En. Hamlet plays with reality as a play). Dimmalætting.

Nolsøe, T. (2016). Hélène Cixous. Látur Medusu (brellbiti). Varðin, volume 84, issue 2.

Editorial work and reviewing
Kvinder, køn og forskning (Women, Gender and Research): Co-editor on a special issue on decolonization.

Rhetorica Scandinavica: Reviewer

Tidskriftet Medier, Erkendelse og Formidling (discontinued): Editor

Rhetoric Society of America: Conference proposal reviewer

Languages:
Proficiency (C2) in Faroese, Danish and English. Independency (B1) in Norwegian (both bokmål and nynorsk) and Swedish.