Frode Helland - Curriculum Vitae#
Monographs:
Rasismens retorikk. Studier i norsk offentlighet, Oslo: Pax Forlag 2019
Ibsen on Theatre, London: Nic Hern Books, 2018 (Co-Authored with Julie Holledge)
A Global Doll’s House. Ibsen and Distant Visions, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 (Co-Authored with Julie Holledge, Jonathan Bollen and Joanne Tompkins)
Ibsen in Practice. Relational Readings of Performance, Cultural Encounters and Power, London & New York: Methuen Bloomsbury 2015
Å lese drama. Innføring i teori og analyse, (Reading drama – theory and analysis) Oslo: Universitetsforlaget/Scandinavian University Press, 2005 (revised edition 2011) (Co-Authored with Lisbeth Pettersen Wærp)
Voldens blomster? Henrik Wergelands Blomsterstykke i estetikkhistorisk lys, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget/Scandinavian University Press, 2003
Melankoliens spill. En studie i Henrik Ibsens siste dramaer, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget/ Scandinavian University Press, 2000
Selected articles recent years:
Rasistisk retorikk - hva er det, og er det egentlig så farlig?. I: Rasisme : Fenomenet, forskningen, erfaringene. Universitetsforlaget 2022 ISBN 9788215063065. p. 234-249
UiO
Henrik Ibsen: Critique from Within. K. Seignure (ed.): A Companion to World Literature, Vol. 4: 1771 to 1919, Wiley Blackwell 2020
The rhetoric of Islamophobia: an analysis of the means of persuasion in Hege Storhaug’s writings on Islam and Muslims. Ethnic and Racial Studies. ISSN 0141-9870. 42(13), s 2229- 2247, London: Routledge, 2019 (Co-Authored with Sindre Bangstad)
The Scars of Modern Life: Hedda Gabler in Adorno’s Prism. K. Gjesdal (ed.): Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Philosophical Perspectives, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018
En kritisk humanisme. Fanon om antisemittisme og anti-svart rasisme. Agora nr. 4, 2016-1, 2017, Oslo: Aschehoug forlag, 2017
Aggressiv skyldfrihet - "Hjernevask" revisited , E. Oxfeldt (red.), Skandinaviske fortellinger om skyld og privilegier i en globaliseringstid. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2016
Rasisme uten rasister i Norge. Agora nr. 3-4 2014, Oslo: Aschehoug forlag, 2015
Introduction: Ibsen Between Cultures, F. Helland & J.Holledge (eds.): Ibsen Between Cultures, Oslo: Novus Forlag, 2016
Mot kapitalistisk realisme: Thomas Ostermeier. I: Kulturmøter i nordisk samtidslitteratur.
Festskrift til Per Thomas Andersen. Oslo: Novus Forlag, 2016
Kritikk i dag - Syv ufullstendige punkter. K&K: kultur og klasse. ISSN 0905-6998. 44(122), København: 2016
A Doll’s House as National Tradition: Understanding the Construction of Aesthetic Value. In: Assigning Cultural Values. Peter Lang Publishing Group 2013 (Co-author Julie Holledge) s. 165-190.
”In - and Out of Place: Two Ibsen-Films”. Ibsen Through New Eyes: Religion and Freedom. Proceedings 2009. Dhaka: Centre for Asian Theatre 2010
”Empire and Culture in Ibsen. Some Notes on the Dangers and Ambiguities of Interculturalism”. Ibsen Studies vol. IX, no. 2, London: Routledge 2009
”I det sekulæres navn — en samtale om politikk, seksualitet og sekularisme”. Intervju med Rustom Bharucha. Agora: Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon vol 27 no. 1, Oslo: Aschehoug forlag, 2009
”Ibsen and Nietzsche: The Master Builder”. Ibsen Studies vol. IX no. 1, London: Routledge 2009
“Ideologi og hegemoni: politisk litteratur i dag”, Tidskrift för Literaturvetenskap, nr. 3-4. 2008, Gothenburg Sweden 2008
Outreach
I write theatre reviews for Norsk Shakespeare- og teatertidsskrift and book reviews for Klassekampen.
Invited guest lectures (selection)
During the last ten years I have given invited guest lectures at Oxford University, UK; Johns Hopkins University; University of New South Wales; University of Queensland; Flinders University; University of Amsterdam; Nanjing University; Fudan University, Shanghai; Tsinghua University, Bejing; University of Dhaka; University of Gothenburg; University of Calcutta; Beijing University; UC Berkeley; Temple University, Philadelphia; American University, Cairo; American University, Beirut; Hanoi National University; Comenius University, Bratislava; Humboldt University, Berlin
Supervision
I have successfully supervised very many BA and MA-students, at the Centre for Ibsen Studies and Deptartments for Scandinavian Studies in Tronheim and Oslo. I have supervised 15 PhD. students who have to date completed their degreees.
I have done peer-review assignments for numerous journals, Orbis Literarum, Modern Drama, Edda, Tidsskrift for litteraturvitenskap, Kritik, Tidsskrift för litteraturvetenskap, Romantik. Journal for the Study of Romanticism etc.
Professional and administrative experience (selection)
- Dean, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, 2019 - present
- Director, Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo, 2012 - 2018
- Board member, NORLA (Norwegian Literature Abroad), 2016 - 2019
- Visiting Research Professor, Flinders University, Adelaide, Fall 2010
- Director, Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo, August 1, 2005 - July 31 2010
- President of the board for the Chinese-Nordic Cultural Centre, Nanjing University since 2009
- Project manager for the project “Ibsen Between Cultures”, supported by the Norwegian Research Council, start Fall 2008
- Member of the Council for Nordic Centre at Fudan University, Shanghai
- Member of the Advisory board for The Delhi Ibsen Festival, New Delhi (2008-2010)
- Project Manager “Ibsen in Translation” (2008 - 2018), funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – translating Ibsen’s dramas into eight different languages.
- Professor II in Scandinavian literature/Globalization studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, August 2004 - July 2007
- Editor of the journal Ibsen Studies 2006-2018, published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
- Co-Editor of the journal Agora 1985-present, published by Aschehoug
- Professor, Scandinavian literature, University of Oslo since August 2004
- Member of the Programme board, Programme for Cultural Studies, The Norwegian Research Council 2002 - 2008
- Chair, Department of Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, January 2002 - July 2004
- Professor, Scandinavian Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) from May 2001
- Project manager for the research project, “The Cultural expressions of Globalization”, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), January 2000 - 2004
- Vice-chair of Department for Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), January 1999 - September 2000
- Project manager, “Det ‘egne’ og det ‘andre’”, NFR – Kulturforskning, November 1998 - 2002
- Head of Section for Scandinavian Literature, NTNU 1998 and 1999
- Associate professor, Scandinavian Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), August 1997
