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Nils Axel Nissen

Professor of American Literature
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Visiting address Niels Treschows hus 7th floor Niels Henrik Abels vei 36
Postal address ILOS P.O.Box 1003 Blindern 0315 Oslo Norway

Academic Interests

English; American Literature, literature in English, literature; biography; literature and gender; literature and (homo)sexuality; American film history, film

Teaching

American Literature, literature written by women, LGBTQ+ literature

Tags: American Literature, Gay Literature, Gender Studies, American Film History

Publications

  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2005). "Fra felten: Vennskap til begjær". Fett. ISSN 1504-1921. p. 43–43. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2005). A Tramp at Home: Huckleberry Finn, Romantic Friendship, and the Homeless Man. Nineteenth-Century Literature. ISSN 0891-9356. 60(1), p. 57–86. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2005). A Saloonkeeper's Daughter in the Company of Women. In Grønstad, Asbjørn & Johannessen, Lene (Ed.), To Become the Self One Is: A Critical Companion to Drude Krog Janson's A Saloonkeeper's Daughter. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270994052. p. 115–129. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2004). The Queer Short Story, The Art of Brevity: Excursions in Short Fiction Theory and Analysis. University of South Carolina Press. ISSN 9781570035579. p. 181–190. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2004). Queer Welty, Camp Welty. Mississippi Quarterly. ISSN 0026-637X. 56(2), p. 209–227. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2004). "Departments of human feeling": Roderick Hudson, Love, and Friendship in the Gilded Age. Prospects : An Annual of American Cultural Studies. ISSN 0361-2333. 28, p. 101–125. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2003). Introduction. In Nissen, Nils Axel (Eds.), The Romantic Friendship Reader: Love Stories Between Men in Victorian America. Northeastern University Press. ISSN 9781555535902. p. 3–11. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel; Ekelund, Bo G. & Lassen, Henrik (2001). Scholarship in Languages Other Than English: Scandinavian Contributions. In Scharnhorst, Gary (Eds.), American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1999. Duke University Press, Durham and London. p. 502–511. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2000). Perpetuum Mobile: Reading Wallace Stevens's "The Man with the Blue Guitar.". English Studies: A Journal of English Language. ISSN 0013-838X. 81(3), p. 217–227. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel; Ekelund, Bo G. & Lassen, Henrik (2000). Scholarship in Languages Other Than English: Scandinavian Contributions. In Nordloh, David J. (Eds.), American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1998. Duke University Press, Durham and London. p. 508–516. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2000). Å lese for å bruke: Homoforskning, kjønnsforskning og litteraturvitenskap. In Skei, Hans H & Vannebo, Kjell Ivar (Ed.), NLÅ: Norsk litterær årbok 2000. Det Norske Samlaget. ISSN 9788252156973. p. 241–263. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2000). "Making the jump": Eudora Welty and the Ethics of Narrative. Journal of The Short Story in English / Les Cahiers de la nouvelle. ISSN 0294-0442. p. 55–68. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2000). Homoforskning/kjønnsforskning: En tilblivelseshistorie. Kvinneforskning. ISSN 0806-6256. 24(3-4), p. 4–17. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (1999). Form Matters: Toni Morrison's Sula and the Ethics of Narrative. Contemporary Literature. ISSN 0010-7484. 40(2), p. 263–285. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel; Ekelund, Bo G. & Lassen, Henrik (1999). Scholarship in Languages Other Than English: Scandinavian Contributions. In Scharnhorst, Gary (Eds.), American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1997. Duke University Press, Durham and London. p. 465–476. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (1999). Outing Jake Barnes: The Sun Also Rises and the Gay World. American Studies in Scandinavia. ISSN 0044-8060. 31(2), p. 42–57. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (1999). Det globale soverommet. In Braa, Kristin; Hetland, Per & Liestøl, Gunnar (Ed.), netts@mfunn. Aschehoug & Co. ISSN 9788251839389. p. 233–242. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (1998). A Telling Existence: Writing Gay Biography. In Bak, Hans & Krabbendam, Hans (Ed.), Writing Lives: American Biography and Autobiography. VU University Press, Amsterdam. ISSN 9789053836170. p. 275–282. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (1997). The Feminization of Roaring Camp: Bret Harte and The American Woman's Home. Studies in Short Fiction. ISSN 0039-3789. 34(3), p. 379–388. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (1997). Seeing through Edna Earle: The Ponder Heart as Dramatic Monologue. Southern Literary Journal. ISSN 0038-4291. 30, p. 73–87. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (1997). Telling Bret Harte's Story: Putting Theory into Biographical Practice. Biography. ISSN 0162-4962. 20, p. 331–343. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (1997). Biografi og litteraturvitenskap: Står det til liv? Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. ISSN 0013-0818. p. 303–312. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (1997). Lord of Romance: Bret Harte's Later Career Reconsidered. American Literary Realism: 1870-1910. ISSN 0002-9823. 29, p. 64–81. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (1993). Occasional Travelers in China Grove: Welty's "Why I Live at the P.O.". Southern Quarterly (SoQ). ISSN 0038-4496. 32, p. 72–79. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (1992). From Antigone to Another World: Soap Opera as Dramatic Text. American Studies in Scandinavia. ISSN 0044-8060. 24, p. 110–122. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2022). Cora Witherspoon: A Life on Stage and Screen. McFarland. ISBN 9781476685106. 216 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2021). Beulah Bondi: A Life on Stage and Screen. McFarland. ISBN 9781476681887. 251 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2017). Agnes Moorehead on Radio, Stage and Television. McFarland. ISBN 9781476667584. 209 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2016). Accustomed to Her Face: Thirty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age Hollywood. McFarland. ISBN 9780786497324. 288 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2013). The Films of Agnes Moorehead. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810891364. 382 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2012). Mothers, Mammies and Old Maids: Twenty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age Hollywood. McFarland. ISBN 9780786461370. 242 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2011). Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties. McFarland. ISBN 9780786461103. 248 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2009). Manly Love: Romantic Friendship in American Fiction. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226586663. 229 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2006). Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties. McFarland. ISBN 9780786427468. 248 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2003). The Romantic Friendship Reader: Love Stories Between Men in Victorian America. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 9781555535902. 286 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2001). Homo/hetero. Gyldendal Norsk Forlag A/S. 127 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nissen, Nils Axel (2000). Bret Harte: Prince and Pauper. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781578062539. 326 p. Full text in Research Archive

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