Michael Henrik Wynn

• cand philol
• Researcher at UiT The Arctic University of Norway

This anthology tries to communicate some of the nineteenth century fascination for Antiquity- the way it was evident in historical fiction, paintings and historical texts of the period - to a modern audience. When the interest faded and the old classics vanished from school books, the world was left with the impression that this past attraction to...

An anthology of dark themed Stories & Poems

A young adult scifi drama written and produced by Michael Henrik Wynn set after the end of the oil age, at a mineral extraction base at the bottom of the North Sea. Referenced in the book Cold Water Oil Offshore Petroleum Cultures (Routledge, 2021), by Danine Farquharson, Fiona Polack

A novel by Rigmor Solem, translated by Michael Henrik Wynn

Newspaper commentary which looks at why George W. Bush quoted the author Graham Greene. It compares the two movie versions of The Quiet American and asks why they are so different. If it was published, it was in the student newspaper Utropia. The text was uploaded to booksie.com where it became moderately popular.

Empathy is a central notion in psychotherapy and has been the attention of much research, focusing on its importance for the provider–patient alliance and for the success of psychotherapy. Despite its importance, little effort has previously been made in order to study the details of actual sequences through which empathy is achieved. In this study...

Short newspaper article written sometime in the early 2000s. If it was published at all it was in the student newspaper Utropia. It deals with the broadcast of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds in Ecuador. I include it because the story is not well known among students of H.G. Wells.

The article is a description of contemporary theory in late Victorian science. It describes the historical context of Darwinism, and shows that it was central for a transition from associationist psychology to a functionalist and later behaviorist approach. It begins by outlining the impact of natural selection as an adaptive mechanism, and claims...

The English title of this article reads «The case of Grant Allen, female emancipation as a biological catastrophe» Grant Allen (1848-99) was a Canadian science journalist and author of cheap novels. He moved to Britain when he was young, studied classics at Oxford and later became a prolific Victorian writer. His most controversial novel was The Wo...

Political commentary originally published in Norwegian in the national newspaper Klassekampen. I translated it into English.

Newspaper article published in the student newspaper Utropia in which I tried to present a dramatic perspective on the life of French poet Arthur Rimbaud. I translated it into English and uploaded to booksie.com, where it was read by 1100 people. I include it because it shows that literary history, although sometimes burdened by academic jargon, ca...

This is a humoristic commentary that I published in the student newspaper in 1999 and in a small national newspaper in 2001 in which I tried to apply my critique of functional psychology (as outlined in my article "Naturlig seleksjon og nittenhundretallets psykologi") to current political events. It's not an adacemic piece, but I include it as a cu...