Academic interests
- Evolutionary psychology
- Nordic culture, literature, and other forms of fiction
- Well-being, happiness, meaning
- Deep cultural changes
Background
- PhD, UCLA European Languages and Transcultural Studies
- MA, UCLA Scandinavian Section
- MFA, UCLA Theater, Film and Television
- BA, Oslo Metropolitan University
- BS, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Tags:
Evolutionary Psychology,
Cultural Transitions,
Positive Psychology,
Comparative Literature,
Film & Media,
Composition
Publications
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Larsen, Mads
(2022).
Staging the Market Mechanisms of Medieval Mating in Den utro hustru.
Comparative drama.
ISSN 0010-4078.
56(3),
p. 283–312.
doi:
10.1353/cdr.2022.0013.
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Larsen, Mads
(2021).
Repeating Authorial Blackface in Analogous Adaptation of Probably Ghostwritten The Dark Child.
Adaptation.
ISSN 1755-0637.
14(3),
p. 399–415.
doi:
10.1093/adaptation/apaa033.
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Larsen, Mads
(2020).
Workshopping Essay Structure: A Hollywood-Inspired Classroom and Online Model.
International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
ISSN 1812-9129.
32(3),
p. 463–475.
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Larsen, Mads
(2020).
From Oral Story to Film: A Millennium of Reassessing Icelandic Identity in Gísla saga.
Literature/Film Quarterly (LFQ).
ISSN 0090-4260.
48(4).
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Larsen, Mads
(2020).
Agreeing on History: Adaptation as Restorative Truth in Finnish Reconciliation.
Literature/Film Quarterly (LFQ).
ISSN 0090-4260.
48(1).
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Larsen, Mads
(2024).
Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder: The Evolution of Modern Mating Ideologies, Dating Dysfunction, and Demographic Collapse.
Routledge.
ISBN 9781032813196.
334 p.
Show summary
Increasing levels of singledom, dating dysfunction, and sexual inactivity contribute to plummeting fertility rates. This book investigates the perhaps most foundational factor behind this uncoupling: our present era’s ideology of love. Throughout human history, communities have shared fictional stories infused with various mating moralities that compel people to pair-bond and reproduce. After taking readers on a 6-million-year journey through hominin mating regimes—with various extents of promiscuity, polygyny, and monogamy—Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder investigates the past millennium's radical evolution of Western mating beliefs. Nordic literary works illuminate the pivotal transitions between the West’s First, Second, and Third Sexual Revolutions, which occurred around the years 1200, 1750, and 1968. The conclusion chapter points to the Fourth Sexual Revolution, symbolically placed in 2029. Artificial intelligence and other technologies seem likely to transform our mating practices more radically than any of the previous revolutions.
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Published
Apr. 7, 2022 11:04 AM
- Last modified
Jan. 22, 2024 10:24 PM