Merete Onsberg
Associate professor emerIta, Associate Professor Emerita
Current research
- Gilbert Austin’s notation system
- The public debate about prostitution
- The vicar in Scherfig’s novel Frydenholm
- Belletristic rhetoric in Denmark
Teaching
The theory and practice of Rhetoric. Rhetorical didactics.
Fields of interest
- The public domain of rhetoric and its different kinds of emergence
- The body’s rhetorical significance
- A text’s rhetorical potentials
Primary fields of research
- Public speaking
- Actio (performance)
- Oral interpretation
- Literary rhetoric and metrics
- The history of rhetoric, especially 18th and 19th centuries
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