Teaching Experience:
Scandinavian film history; Ibsen; Norwegian
literature; Scandinavian drama; 19th-century
Scandinavian cultural history. Approach to material
emphasizes historical 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 early film
history, museology, media studies, theater history,
and Scandinavian architecture and design.
Current projects: Metaphors
of housing in Ibsen's prose plays; the silent
films of Carl Theodore Dreyer; Space, time,
and display in turn-of-the-century visual culture.
Selected publications
Book:
Living
Pictures, Missing Persons: Mannequins, Museums,
and Modernity. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2003.
Articles:
“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.
