Teaching
Experience:
Scandinavian film history; Ibsen; Norwegian
literature; Scandinavian drama; 19th-century
Scandinavian cultural history; nationalism and
literature; decadence and vitalism. I tend to
emphasize historical and socio-contextual methodologies
and interdisciplinary approaches to literature
and visual media.
Research Interests: The visual
and cultural history of turn-of-the-century
Scandinavia, including fields of Scandinavian
cinema, museology, media studies, theater history,
and Scandinavian architecture and design. A
joint (50%) appointment in the Department of
Film and Media facilitates my complimentary
research interests in para-cinematic visual
culture, film history, and serial television.
Current projects: Nordic literary
cultures and historiography; Ibsen and architectural
metaphor; film and location; recent serial television.
Selected
publications
Books:
Ibsen's
Houses. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, forthcoming 2013.
Senior Editor for A Comparative History
of Nordic Literary Cultures, vols 1-4.
Amsterdam: J. Benjamins Publishers (Vol. 1:
Spatial Nodes is forthcoming 2013).
Living
Pictures, Missing Persons: Mannequins, Museums,
and Modernity. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2003.
Articles:
“Location, ‘Location’: Place
Substitution in Danish Silent Cinema.”
In Border Crossings: Silent Film and the
Politics of Space, Eds. Jennifer M. Bean,
Laura Horak, and Anupama Kapse. Indiana University
Press, forthcoming 2013.
“The Interactivity of the Model Home.”
In History of Participatory Media: Politics
and Publics, 1750-2000, eds. Anders Ekström,
Solveig Jülich, Frans Lundgren, and Per
Wisselgren. New York: Routledge, 2010. 63-80.
“The Figuration of Temporality in Literary
History.” In Vesa Haapala, Hannamari Helander,
Anna Hollsten, Pirjo Lyytikäinen, and Rita
Paqvalén, eds. The Angel of History:
Literature, History, and Culture. Helsinki:
University of Helsinki, 2009. 33-47.
“The
Architecture of Forgetting.” Ibsen
Studies 7.1 (2007).
“Doll
Housing.” In Sanda Tomescu, ed., Henrik
Ibsen, special issue of Studia Universitatis
Babes-Bolyai, Philologia (Cluj, Romania;
November 2006), 53-60.
“John
Gabriel Borkman’s Avant-Garde Continuity.”
Modern Drama 49.3 (September 2006).
“Mastering
the House: Performative Inhabitation in Carl
Th. Dreyer’s The Parson’s Widow.”
In C. Claire Thompson, ed. Northern Constellations:
New Readings in Nordic Cinema. Norwich:
Norvik Press (2006).
“Multiple-Reel
Feature Films: Europe.” In Richard Abel,
ed., Encyclopedia of Early Cinema.
New York: Routledge (2005): 452-456.
“Wax
Museums: Europe.” In Richard Abel, ed.,
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. New York:
Routledge (2005): 686-87.
“The
Metropolitan Threshold: Material Mobility and
the Folk-Primitive.” Kristin Kopp and
Klaus Müller-Richter, eds. Die “Großstadt”
und das “Primitive”: Text - Politik
- Repräsentation. Stuttgart: Verlag
J.B. Metzler (2004): 93-112.
"Pocket Movies: Souvenir Cinema Programs and
the Danish Silent Cinema," Film History
13.1 (Fall 2001).
"Ibsen and the Mimetic Home of Modernity." Ibsen
Studies 2 (Spring 2001).
"Maternal Gesture and Photography in Victor
Sjöström's Ingeborg Holm."
Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams and Terje I. Leiren,
eds. Stage and Screen: Studies in Scandinavian
Drama and Film. Essays in Honor of Birgitta
Steene. Seattle: Dream Play Press Northwest
(2000).
"Writing on the Wall: The Language of Advertising
in Knut Hamsun's Sult." Scandinavian
Studies 71.3 (Fall 1999): 265-296.
"Tracking Out: The 'Bergman Film' in Retrospect."
Review Essay. Scandinavian Studies 69.3
(Summer 1997): 357-376.
"Effigy and Narrative: Looking into the Nineteenth-Century
Folk Museum." In Cinema and the Invention
of Modern Life. Eds. Leo Charney and Vanessa
Schwartz. Berkeley: University of California
Press (1995): 320-361.
"Rewriting God's Plot: Ingmar Bergman and Feminine
Narrative." Scandinavian Studies 63.1
(Winter 1991): 1-29.
Professional
Positions
President,
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian
Study, 2011-13
President,
Ibsen Society of America, 2009-13
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