Hilde Løvdal Stephens

Associate Professor - British North American
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Academic interests

My research focuses on 20th-century American history, esp. religion, gender, sexuality, politics, and education.

Courses taught

ENG4000 – Thesis Writing for English Literature, American and British Studies

ENG2504 – American Places

ENG4550 Theory and Method in American and British Studies

ENG1506: American History and Society: An Introduction

ENG4546: Educating Americans: The History of Education in the USA

Background

I have a PhD in American Studies from ILOS. From 2019 to 2022 I worked in the teacher training program at the University of Southeastern Norway.

Select Research Funding

Congregational Library, Boston (2016)

Visiting fellowship at Point Loma Nazarene University (2015)

Fulbright Fellowship at Northwestern University (2010-2011)

 

 

Tags: American Studies, USA, Religion in the US, Education history, Culture wars, Gender and religion, Twentieth-century American history, Conservatism

Publications

  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal & Marti, Gerardo (2024). Public Schools, Critical Race Theory (CRT), and the Christian Right: How Trump Refueled Family Values Politics, Trump, White Evangelical Christians, and American Politics: Continuity and Change. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISSN 9781512825626.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2021). Mødre mot makta: Norma Gabler og kristenpopulismen i USA. In Kloster, Sven Thore & Stålsett, Sturla Johan (Ed.), Populisme og kristendom . Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202720315. p. 237–254.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2018). Tearing Down the Walls of Segregation: Race, Conservatism, and 1990s Evangelical Rap. Journal of American Studies. ISSN 0021-8758. 54(4), p. 1043–1065. doi: 10.1017/S0021875817000871.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2015). Money Matters and Family Matters. In Goff, Philip; Stievermann, Jan & Junker, Detlef (Ed.), Religion and the Marketplace in the United States. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780199361793. p. 102–123. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199361793.003.0005.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2013). Called to Preach or Called to Parent: American Evangelicals and their Mission in the World. Fides et Historia. ISSN 0884-5379. 45(2), p. 60–64.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2013). Parenting and Politics: The Personal and the Political in the Evangelical Family Values Movement. American Studies in Scandinavia. ISSN 0044-8060. 45(1-2), p. 59–75. doi: 10.22439/asca.v45i1-2.4901.

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  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2019). Family Matters: James Dobson and Focus on the Family’s Crusade for the Christian Home . University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-2033-1. 304 p.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal; Birkeland, Arne; Ian, Underwood & Torp, Anne-Marie (2017). E2: Internasjonal engelsk. Gyldendal Undervisning. ISBN 9788205489400. 331 p.

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  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2023). Marva Collins: A Black Conservative Teacher in the Reading Wars.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2023). When God Spoke American.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2023). Debatt om Christian Krohgs «Leiv Eiriksson oppdager Amerika». [Internet]. Nasjonalmuseet.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2022). Reading to Save the Republic in Postwar America.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2022). Brannstiftelser, trusler og vold i kampen mot abort. [Newspaper]. Vårt Land.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2022). A Readers' Republic: The Politics of Reading Instruction in the US since the 1950s​.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2022). Studio 2: Verdikamp i USA. [Radio]. NRK P2.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2022). Skoler slagmark for amerikansk kulturkrig. [Newspaper]. Vårt Land.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2022). Når latter splitter. Avisa Vårt land.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2022). Mødre mot makta.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2022). Studio 2. [Radio]. NRK P2.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2021). Inspirerte kristne tilhengere av Trump. [Newspaper]. Dagen.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2021). Historisk spenning om abort i USA. [Newspaper]. Dagen.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2021). Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family. Reading Religion. ISSN 2475-207X.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2021). Russel More er en upopulær mann og teolog. Vårt land. ISSN 0805-5424.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2021). Forvirret over USAs abortlovgivning? Les USA-ekspertens historiske gjennomgang. Vårt land. ISSN 0805-5424.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2021). En byste til besvær? Vårt land. ISSN 0805-5424.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2021). Carman Licciardello - en kristen-stjerne er gått bort. Vårt land. ISSN 0805-5424.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2021). Blomstene på brudesjalet er en del britenes rasisme-historie. Vårt land. ISSN 0805-5424.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2021). Sequoyas språk. Vårt land. ISSN 0805-5424.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2021). Baptists in Babylon. Berkley Forum.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2021). Studio 2. [Radio]. NRK P2.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2021). Studio 2. [Radio]. NRK P2.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2021). Southern Religion in the World: Three Stories by Paul Harvey. The Journal of southern history. ISSN 0022-4642. doi: 10.1353/soh.2021.0024.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2021). American Pentecostal Preachers in Norway in the 1950s.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2020). Family Matters – A Conversation with Hilde Løvdal Stephens. [Internet]. Recommended Reading.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2020). Family Matters. [Radio]. New Books Network.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2020). Spent på unge evangelikales valg. [Newspaper]. Dagen.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2020). Slavenes bidrag til vaksinegjennombruddet. Vårt land. ISSN 0805-5424.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2020). Da Gud ble republikaner. Intervjuet av Morten S. Smedsrud. [Newspaper]. Apollon.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2020). Studio 2. [Radio]. NRK P2.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2020). Studio 2. [Radio]. NRK P2.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2020). Studio 2. [Radio]. NRK P2.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2020). God Bless America (episode 1, 2 og 5). [Radio]. Vårt Land.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2020). Communes in America 1975-2000 . Reading Religion. ISSN 2475-207X.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2020). Nå er din historie viktig. Avisa Vårt land.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2020). Ideen om «hvithet». Avisa Vårt land.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2020). Muskuløs kristendom. Avisa Vårt land.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2020). Hvem er USAs evangelikale? Avisa Vårt land.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2020). All about the Family: James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical Identity.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2019). USA: Den egentlige trusselen mot akademikernes ytringsfrihet. Universitetsavisa. ISSN 0807-5271.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2019). White Christmas. Avisa Vårt land.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2019). Kløften i USAs kristne musikkbransje. Avisa Vårt land.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2019). Kristendom, kapitalisme og politikk. Avisa Vårt land.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2019). Jakt og offer. Avisa Vårt land.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2019). Evangelicalism, Family Values, and Race in Recent American Religious History.
  • Stephens, Randall J. & Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2019). «Guds mann i Det hvite hus». Kirke og kultur. ISSN 0023-186X. 123(2), p. 111–122. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3002-2019-02-02.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2017). “The Year of the Family? Dr. Dobson and the Rise of Focus on the Family” .
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2017). “Family Values in Red, White, and Black.” .
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2016). Korstog mot den røde pesten. Humanist : tidsskrift for livssynsdebatt. ISSN 0801-6283. 2016(3).
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2015). Sword of the spirit, shield of faith: religion in American war and diplomacy. Journal of Transatlantic Studies (JTS). ISSN 1479-4012. 13(March).
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2015). “American Religion since 1945.”.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2015). De kristenkonservative samler troppene. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2015). Ville at kvinner skulle underkaste seg mannen og møte ham i sexy undertøy. Aftenposten Viten. ISSN 2464-3033.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2013). Kalkun, stuffing, pumpkin pie: Historien om Thanksgiving-feiringen. amerikanskpolitikk.no.
  • Løvdal, Hilde (2012). Billy Graham and Scandinavian Converts.
  • Løvdal, Hilde (2012). Focus on the Family: Generational Shifts within the Evangelical Movement.
  • Løvdal, Hilde (2012). Santorums evangeliske inspirasjon. [Internet]. forskning.no.
  • Løvdal, Hilde (2012). How to Talk about "It": Focus on the Family's Advice to Evangelical Parents of Young Children.
  • Løvdal, Hilde (2012). Menn må beundres – kvinner beskyttes. [Internet]. Kilden - Informasjonssenter for kjønnsforskning.
  • Stephens, Hilde Løvdal (2012). “‘We’re Colored People and We Live in a Tainted Place’: Race, Religion, and Reconciliation in 1990s Evangelical Hip Hop.” .
  • Løvdal, Hilde (2011). Money Matters and Family Matters.
  • Løvdal, Hilde (2011). The Elephant in the Evangelical Living Room. Evangelical Studies Bulletin. ISSN 0890-703X. Fall(79), p. 1–5.
  • Løvdal, Hilde (2011). From Racial Hierarchy to a Focus on the Family.
  • Løvdal, Hilde (2011). Sex and the Civilization from the Cold War to the Culture Wars.
  • Løvdal, Hilde (2011). Because Everybody has a Family: Family Values in Black and White.
  • Løvdal, Hilde (2010). Focus on the Family and the Mommy Wars: Negotiating the Real and the Ideal.
  • Løvdal, Hilde (2009). Defending Faith and Family: A Qualitative Historical Analysis of Focus on the Family's Message and Appeal to American Evangelicals.
  • Løvdal, Hilde (2009). James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Conservative Evangelical Womanhood in a Post-The Feminine Mystique America.
  • Løvdal, Hilde (2012). Family Matters: James Dobson and Focus on the Family's Message to American Evangelicals, 1970-2010. Det humanistiske fakultet.
  • Løvdal, Hilde & Kitchen-Døderlein, Deborah Lynn (2011). Family Matters: James Dobson and Focus on the Family's Message to American Evangelicals. Universitetet i Oslo.
  • Løvdal, Hilde & Kitchen-Døderlein, Deborah Lynn (2006). Faith and Feminism: Evangelicalism, Feminism and the Culture Wars in the USA, 1970s to the Present. Universitetet i Oslo.

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