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Anders Kristian Strand is an Associate Professor at the University of Bergen's Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, part of the Faculty of Art, Music, and Design. His research focuses on literary theory, German and classical literature, translation studies, and modernist thought. He holds a PhD from the University of Bergen (2008) and has supervised doctoral theses such as *With His Blood He Wrote* (2017). Strand’s work explores motifs like decay, memory, and nature across authors like Wordsworth, Proust, Adorno, and Hölderlin. He frequently publishes in journals like *Norwegian Journal of Literary Studies* and contributes to academic editing, including leadership roles in journal editions. Strand also engages in public lectures and media appearances, such as his 2024 podcast on Joseph Conrad’s *Heart of Darkness*. His research spans interdisciplinary areas including cultural theory, aesthetic philosophy, and the history of literary criticism. Key areas of expertise include the Faustian motif, romanticism, and the intersection of emotion and literature in works by Rilke and Woolf. Strand’s publications analyze textual action in Williams’ *Paterson*, Adorno’s hermeneutical approaches, and the role of rivers in classical and modern texts. He collaborates with institutions like the Arkadia Project and has presented at venues ranging from academic colloquia to the Bergen Public Library’s literary events.

• Literary Theory
• Romanticism
• German Literature
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Thor Holt is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo. He specializes in interdisciplinary investigations of Ibsen’s works, focusing on intersections between aesthetics, politics, and sociocultural contexts. His research integrates literary and film theory with historical analyses, employing social philosophy and disaster discourses. Education: PhD in Ibsen Studies and German Film (University of Oslo, 2020); MA in Literary Studies (University of Copenhagen, 2012). International experience includes visiting roles at UC Berkeley (2021–22) and Humboldt-Universität, Berlin (2015–16). Teaching responsibilities include courses on Ibsen studies, Scandinavian film, and theoretical methodologies. Holt serves as Teaching Coordinator at the Centre for Ibsen Studies (2024–) and co-edits Ibsen Studies . His publications explore adaptation theory, trauma aesthetics, and historical film adaptations. Research interests span Ibsen’s global reception, intermediality, and cultural history. Notable works analyze Nazi-era Ibsen adaptations, silent film interpretations, and allegorical film receptions.

• Ibsen Studies
• Nordic Literature
• Film History
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Giuliano D'Amico is a Professor of Nordic Literature and Center Director at the University of Oslo . He has held academic positions at NTNU and Volda University College between 2012-2023, with earlier roles as Lecturer at University of Milan and University of Turin . His career includes a Ph.D. in General Literature (2008-2010) and research stays at Ca' Foscari University , University of Strasbourg , and others. Education: Ph.D. in General Literature, University of Oslo (2008-2010) Research stays at University of Turin (2008-2010), University of Palermo (2010), and other institutions His research focuses on Nordic literature (1800-present) , particularly Henrik Ibsen , examined through international reception studies , translation analysis , and copyright history . He has pioneered the integration of Western esotericism as a literary analytical category, with 2020 monograph on Nordic retrogardism and Håkan Sandell's poetry. Current projects include a book on spectrality in Ibsen's plays . His publications span 15+ years , covering Ibsen's Peer Gynt through occult and conspiracy lens, Hamsun's forgery themes, and comparative analysis of Nordic authors' reception in Italy, France, Germany, and Scotland . Articles appear in European Journal of Scandinavian Studies , Correspondences , and Cambridge University Press publications. As academic leader: Head of Center for Ibsen Studies (2023-2027) Co-editor of Ibsen Studies journal since 2018 Secretary of International Ibsen Committee (2018-2020, 2023-2027) Teaching coordinator for Center for Ibsen studies (2018-2020) He teaches Ibsen Studies (master's program) with courses on text-performance analysis, modern drama, and practical Ibsen studies. Research groups: Book history and reception group Founding member of ESOSTETICS (Esotericism and Aesthetics in Nordic countries) Projects: Co-investigator in Made Abroad: Producing Norwegian World Literature in a Time of Rupture, 1900-50 (National Library of Norway) Participant in NORNE (Norwegian Romantic Nationalisms research)

• Nordic Literature
• Ibsen Studies
• Reception Studies
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Frode Helland is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Professor of Nordic Literary Studies at the University of Oslo. He earned his Cand.Philol. (1992) and Dr.art. in Nordic Literary Studies (1998) from the same institution. Previously, he held academic positions at NTNU as Associate Professor (1997-2001) and Professor (2001-2004). Research Focus Helland's research spans two primary domains: Ibsen Studies : Evolving from textual analysis to theatre studies, reception history, and digital humanities approaches. Racism Research : Investigating racist rhetoric in Norwegian society through discourse analysis and quantitative methods, spanning historical and contemporary contexts. His interdisciplinary work integrates digital humanities, performance theory, and critical discourse analysis. Administrative Leadership Head of Center for Ibsen Studies (2005-2010, 2012-present) Head of Department at NTNU (2002-2004) Editor-in-Chief: Ibsen Studies journal (2006-2009, 2012-present) Board Member: NORLA (2016-present) Major Grants Project Manager: "The Self and the Other" (NFR, 1998-2002) Project Manager: "Ibsen Between Cultures" (NFR, 2008-2012) Global Engagement Includes visiting professorships (UC Berkeley, Flinders University), advisory roles at Chinese-Nordic cultural centers, and lectures at institutions including Oxford, Stanford, and Fudan University.

• Ibsen studies
• Racism research
• Theatre studies
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Christian Janss is Professor of German Literature at the University of Oslo's Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages. His research explores German literature, poetry, modernism, and religious themes, with special focus on Henrik Ibsen and textual criticism. Research interests include German literature , poetic forms , and religious intersections in literature , with publications spanning Holocaust studies, modernist literature, and comparative analysis of Scandinavian-German literary connections. Recent articles examine Holocaust poetry, friendship in literature, and religious utopias in modernist works. His scholarly output shows consistent focus on German literary modernism and Scandinavian-German cultural exchange . He teaches courses on German literature from 1900-present, literary translation, and genre studies, while supervising graduate students in German literature and translation studies.

• German Literature
• Poetry
• Modernism
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Martin Wåhlberg is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), located in the Department of Language and Literature under the Faculty of Humanities. He holds a Master’s from Sorbonne Université, training in historical music performance from the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris, and a PhD jointly from NTNU and Sorbonne Université. He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford and Università di Pisa. His research focuses on 18th-century French literature, music, and anthropology, with a particular emphasis on opéra-comique and its socio-political contexts during the French Revolution. He co-leads the Classical Ages Research Group at NTNU and leads the 'Revolutionary opéra-comique' project funded by the Research Council of Norway. His work bridges literary analysis, musicology, and cultural history, with notable contributions including La Scène de musique dans le roman du XVIIIe siècle (2015) and Opplysningens sorte får (2011). Wåhlberg’s research has been recognized with awards such as the Prix jeune chercheur (2009) for his anthropological study of Enlightenment hospitality myths and the Young Researcher Prize from the Royal Norwegian Society of Science and Letters (2011). His music performance initiatives, including CD recordings like Le Roman des Lumières (2013) and Raoul Barbe Bleue (2018), have garnered international acclaim, including CHOC Classica and BBC Music Magazine recognitions. He has spearheaded international networks like the Favart network for opéra-comique studies and collaborates with Sorbonne Université on a Parisian opéra-comique performance database. His interdisciplinary work intersects literary studies, musicology, and cultural history, reflecting a commitment to both scholarly rigor and public cultural engagement.

• Eighteenth-Century French Literature
• Comparative Literature
• Musicology
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Torgeir Skorgen is a Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen, where he has been actively engaged in research and teaching. His academic profile shows a strong commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship that bridges literary studies, philosophy, and cultural theory. Skorgen's research interests focus on hermeneutics, European identity and borders, race theory and racism, literary studies (particularly Hölderlin, Ibsen, and German Romanticism), philosophy (including Kant, Nietzsche, and Arendt), postcolonial studies, and Jewish studies. His work often examines the intersections between literature, philosophy, and political thought, particularly how these fields engage with questions of identity, otherness, and historical trauma. His recent publications reveal a consistent focus on themes of European identity, border studies, and the historical development of racial thinking. Skorgen frequently analyzes how literary works engage with political and philosophical questions, particularly examining how writers like Hölderlin, Kafka, and Ibsen address issues of violence, colonialism, and human rights. His work demonstrates a particular interest in the relationship between aesthetics and politics, showing how literary forms can both reflect and challenge dominant ideologies. Skorgen is a member of The Borders of Europe Research Group at the University of Bergen, where he collaborates with scholars like Helge Vidar Holm and Sissel Tone Ågot Lægreid. His academic output includes numerous scholarly articles, book chapters, and monographs, including "The invention of race. The history of racial thought" (2002) and "Wergelands jødesak. Nasjonsbygging og toleranse" (2024).

• Hermeneutics
• Race Theory and Racism
• European Identity and Borders
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Tomine Sandal is a Doctoral Research Fellow in Nordic Literature at the University of Oslo's Faculty of Humanities, affiliated with the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies. Her research focuses on ecocriticism, petrocultures, and contemporary literature, particularly exploring oil's cultural and bodily representations. She holds an MA (2021) and BA (2019) in Nordic Literature from UiO, with a thesis on masculinity and environmental crises in modern Nordic novels. PhD Project: 'Bodies of Oil: Petroleum and Transcorporeality in Norwegian Contemporary Literature and Theatre' supervised by Sissel Furuseth and Solveig Gade. Background: Former theatre/literary critic for Scenekunst.no and Bokvennen, recipient of Fritt Ord's Criticism Grant (2022-23), and former research assistant for 'Critical Petroaesthetics'. Her academic interests include petrocultures studies, literature-affect theory intersections, and drama/theatre analysis. She contributes to research groups like EcoLit and Oil & Society, and currently serves as a jury member for the National Ibsen Prize (2025).

• Ecocriticism
• Environmental Humanities
• Petrocultures Studies
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Ellen Karoline Gjervan is a Professor at the Drama Department within the Department of Language, Art and Culture at Queen Maud Memorial College for Early Childhood Education. Her academic work focuses on theatre studies, with a particular emphasis on Henrik Ibsen's staging practices and historical performance contexts.

• Theatre Studies
• Henrik Ibsen Research
• Dramaturgy
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Marte Lie Høivik is a Professor at the University of Oslo's Institute of Clinical Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. She serves as Senior Consultant and Head of the IBD Unit at Oslo University Hospital, leading the IBD research group and directing the IBSEN III study. Her research focuses on clinical and registry-based epidemiology in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with emphasis on clinical effectiveness, quality studies, prognostic research, and biomarker identification. Her work leverages large population-based cohorts like IBSEN to investigate disease course, treatment outcomes, and quality-of-life impacts. Recent publications reveal strong trends in risk prediction modeling, microbiome analysis, therapeutic drug monitoring, and real-world treatment effectiveness. Her team frequently examines understudied aspects like fatigue in remission, dietary impacts, and sex/gender differences in IBD outcomes using longitudinal cohort designs. Høivik actively supervises research within the IBSEN III cohort and collaborates extensively across Nordic countries on IBD epidemiology. Her team has published over 30 papers since 2021 in high-impact journals including Nature , Gastroenterology , and The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology . She leads multiple research projects including the IBSEN III cohort study and NORDTREAT, with current funding supporting investigations into biomarkers, treatment strategies, and long-term disease outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease.

• Clinical epidemiology
• Registry-based epidemiology
• Clinical effectiveness
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Lars August Fodstad is a Professor of Nordic Literature and Head of Department at NTNU’s Department of Language and Literature (Faculty of Humanities). His research focuses on Scandinavian literature with emphases on Modern Breakthrough literature, Norwegian drama, and literature pedagogy. He has authored academic monographs such as Moderne gjennombrudd og sammenbrudd (2014) and co-authored textbooks like Moment. Norsk for studieforberedende (VG1–3). His work bridges literary analysis with pedagogy, examining how economic, media, and cultural frameworks shape literary interpretation and education. Research highlights include media-archaeological analyses of Finn Iunker’s plays and financial narratives in Ibsen’s dramas. He explores intersections between literature and economics, such as Economic Extensions in Space and Time (2020), while advancing pedagogical approaches to literary competence in secondary education. Publications span academic articles in Ibsen Studies , Nordic Journal of Literacy Research , and Acta Didactica Norden , alongside feature articles in Khrono.no . His contributions address both scholarly and educational audiences, emphasizing practical classroom methodologies while maintaining rigorous textual analysis.

• Scandinavian Literature
• Modern Breakthrough Literature
• Norwegian Drama
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Anders Skare Malvik is a Professor in the Department of Language and Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). His research focuses on the intersections between literature, media technology, and cultural history, particularly exploring how literary expression engages with media transformations from 19th-century innovations like the telegraph to contemporary digital culture. He leads the ImagiNation project mapping Norwegian literary geographies (1814-1905) and co-edits academic volumes on media aesthetics and 19th-century literature. Malvik's teaching spans undergraduate and graduate courses on media studies, literary history, and research methods. He has developed interdisciplinary approaches to digital humanities, authoring reports on establishing DH labs at NTNU. His work bridges literary analysis with media philosophy, examining topics like infrastructural influences on Bjørnson's realism and ekphrastic modes in digital contexts. Key research contributions include studies on media archaeology, Ibsen's noo-politics, and the role of newspapers/telegraphs in shaping literary subjectivity. His publications span academic journals like Scandinavian Studies and Ibsen Studies , as well as edited volumes exploring media's impact on modernist aesthetics and contemporary art. Malvik's projects often involve collaborative digital humanities initiatives, such as corpus analysis of Norwegian literature and visualizing spatial data through projects like ImagiNation . He frequently presents at international conferences and engages in public lectures about media's role in cultural production and literary interpretation.

• Literature/art and media technology
• Literary geography
• Digital Humanities
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Gianina Druta is an Associate Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University, affiliated with the Faculty of Teacher Education and International Studies and specifically the Department of Kindergarten Teacher Education. She serves as a study leader for area 4 and is actively engaged in research groups focused on philosophy, art, culture, and art-based research and development (KunstForsk). Her research centers on the reception, translation, and performance history of Henrik Ibsen in Romania and Central Europe, combining theatre studies, literary analysis, digital humanities, and historiography. Her work explores how Ibsen's plays were introduced, adapted, and interpreted across linguistic and cultural boundaries, particularly within the Austro-Hungarian context and Romanian theatre traditions. The most recent articles reflect a strong thematic focus on Ibsen’s dramatic works—especially Peer Gynt and Ghosts —examining their translation, staging, and interpretation through lenses such as dementia, time, identity, and star-actor traditions. Her scholarship bridges Scandinavian literature and Eastern European cultural history, often employing interdisciplinary methodologies. Druta has presented her research widely through dissemination activities at international conferences such as IFTR, EASTAP, and SASS, demonstrating sustained academic engagement. While no scientific awards are listed, her contributions include a major research report and multiple peer-reviewed publications. She advises on academic projects and contributes to editorial and research coordination, though no formal PhD or Master’s students are listed. Her work is supported by collaborative research groups focusing on reception studies and book history, particularly in partnership with the University of Oslo.

• Theatre Studies
• Literary Studies
• Scandinavian Literature
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Vendel Ailin Kristensen serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Oslo's Faculty of Medicine. Based at Oslo University Hospital (Ullevål), Dr. Kristensen maintains an active research profile focused on inflammatory bowel diseases, particularly through the IBSEN III population-based inception cohort study in South-Eastern Norway. Dr. Kristensen's primary research interests center on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, with particular emphasis on disease prediction models, biomarker discovery (especially fecal calprotectin), symptom clusters, quality of life assessments, and nutritional aspects . Their work frequently examines disease progression, treatment outcomes, and the relationship between biochemical markers and clinical manifestations in IBD patients. Analysis of recent publications reveals a strong focus on population-based cohort studies , particularly the IBSEN III study tracking newly diagnosed IBD patients. Research trends show increasing attention to microbiome analysis, disease phenotyping, and the intersection between IBD and functional gastrointestinal disorders . The publications consistently demonstrate methodological rigor in clinical assessment and biomarker validation. Dr. Kristensen actively collaborates within the Gastroenterology research group at the University of Oslo, contributing to multiple national and international research initiatives focused on improving IBD diagnosis, monitoring, and management. Their work bridges clinical practice and research, with direct implications for patient care protocols and treatment strategies.

• Gastroenterology
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Ulcerative Colitis
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Ellen Rees is a Professor at the Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo, specializing in Nordic literature and film, with a focus on Henrik Ibsen. Her career includes academic roles at Arizona State University, University of Oregon, and Åbo Akademi. Ph.D., University of Washington (1995) M.A., University of Washington (1992) B.A., Evergreen State College (1989) Her research spans Ibsen studies, drama, cultural reception, and urban literary studies. She explores film adaptations, gender roles, and queer interpretations of Ibsen's works, emphasizing transnational influences and modern relevance. Rees has authored 15 recent publications analyzing Ibsen's texts through themes like media representation, identity politics, and philosophical theory. Her 2024 work on vaudeville origins of modern drama highlights interdisciplinary approaches. Awardee of the ERC Advanced Grant (2023-2027) for Norwegian Romantic Nationalisms (NORN), she has held leadership roles including Director of the Centre for Ibsen Studies (2019-2023) and Vice Dean for Research (2015-2018). She co-edited Edda and Ibsen Studies . Projects include 'Data-Mining the Digital Bookshelf' and completed initiatives like NORN. Her editorial and administrative contributions complement her scholarly output on Scandinavian literature and adaptation theory.

• Nordic Literature
• Drama
• Ibsen Studies
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