Ellen Rees

2024. “Ibsen’s Happy Endings; Or, the Vaudeville Origins of Modern Drama.” Nineteenth Century Studies 36: 111–25.

2024. “Nora Helmer and Thora Helmer: Henrik Ibsen at Play with the Vaudeville.” Comparative Literature Studies 61 (3): 497–519.

2024. “Seeing Queerness in Ibsen’s Pillars of Society.” Edda 111 (4): 194–209.

2023. Den populærkulturelle Ibsen: En studie i nyere norsk resepsjon. Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press.

2023. “Ibsen, Sancthansnatten og de ‘saakaldte lavere Kunstarter.’” Edda 110 (2): 74-89.

2022. “Peer Gynt: The Missing Years.” In Silent Ibsen: Transnational Film Adaptation in the 1910s and 1920s, edited by Eirik Frisvold Hanssen and Maria Fosheim Lund, 125–46. Oslo: National Library of Norway. 

2022. “Tropes Revisited: Evert Sprinchorn’s Ibsen’s Kingdom: The Man and His Works and Recent Historical Research in Ibsen Studies.” Review essay. Scandinavian Studies 94 (4): 530–45.

Ellen Rees and Thor Holt. 2022. “Entanglements of Adaptation, Allegory, and Reception: Jaws and An Enemy of the People.” Journal of Aesthetics and Culture 14 (1): electronic publication.

2021. “Mass Media and Popular Reception.” In Ibsen in Context, edited by Narve Fulsås and Tore Rem, 264–71. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 

2020. “Fogden, kvinnen og taterungen: omstreifermotivet i Ibsens Brand.” Edda 107 (4): 242–253.

2020. “Oslo/Kristiania/Christiania: Ibsen, Hamsun, and the Modern Urban Breakthrough.” In The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Urban Literary Studies, edited by Jeremy Tambling. London: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

2016. “Dramatizing Biographers: Michael Meyer’s A Meeting in Rome and Robert Ferguson’s Dr. Ibsen’s Ghosts.” Modern Drama 59 (1): 75-94.

2016. “Den barmhjertige Ibsen: Simon Strangers Gjengangeren.” In Modernitet, barndom, historie. Festskrift til Harald Bache-Wiig, edited by Åse Marie Ommundsen, Per Thomas Andersen and Liv Bliksrud, 141-153. Oslo: Novus.

2016. “Tracing the Self in Peer Gynt: A Critique of Johnston’s Hegelian Reading.” In Ibsen Between Tradition and Contemporaneity, edited by B. Ananthakrishnan and Ellen Rees, 1–6. Hyderabad, India: S.N. School of Arts and Communications. 

2015. "Post-Secular Salvation: Hallvard Bræin's Gatas Gynt." Nordlit 34: 373-380.

2015. "Henrik Ibsen som tegneseriefigur: fra Sfinksen til Dovregubben." Kunst og kultur 98 (1): 14-27.

2014. Ibsen's Peer Gynt and the Production of Meaning. Acta Ibseniana XI. Oslo: Centre for Ibsen Studies.

2014. “Ibsen Exposed: Atle Næss’s Sensommer and Niels Fredrik Dahl’s Henrik og Emilie.” European Journal of Scandinavian Studies 44 (2): 186-204.

2013. “Melodramatic Traces and Places in The Lady from the Sea.” Ibsen Studies 12 (2): 79-100.

2013. “Body, Corpus, and Corpse: Delineating Ibsen in A.S. Byatt’s The Biographer’s Tale.” In Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries, edited by Hein Viljoen, 156-181. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2013.

2011. “By the Open Sea: Ibsen's Fruen fra Havet and Jon Fosse’s Nokon kjem til å komme.” Ibsen Studies 10 (2): 192-222.

2010. “Problems of Landscape and Representation in Ibsen’s Når vi døde vågner.” Ibsen Studies 9 (2): 37-61.

2008. “Tropological Turns in Peer Gynt.” Ibsen Studies 8 (2): 112-134.

2007. “Gyntian Simulacra: Twenty-First-Century Appropriations of Peer Gynt.” Scandinavian Studies 79 (4): 427-448.

• Rees, Ellen (2024). Ibsen’s Happy Endings; or, The Vaudeville Origins of Modern Drama. Nineteenth Century Studies. ISSN 0893-7931. 36, p. 111–125. doi: 10.5325/ninecentstud.36.0111. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article critiques the prevailing narrative about the adherence by the dramatist Henrik Ibsen to aesthetic idealism, arguing that he took an anti-idealist position much earlier than most scholars assume. The main claim is that he recycled elements from the popular and profoundly anti-idealist comédies-vaudevilles that he staged while working in the theater, in a practice that Linda Hutcheon identifies as modern parody. A secondary claim challenges the evidence that Ibsen ascribed to the form of aesthetic idealism propounded by the Danish dramatist Johan Ludvig Heiberg. Finally, the article gives examples of Ibsen’s parodic use in his Love’s Comedy (1862) and The Lady from the Sea (1888) of specific vaudevilles written by the French dramatist Eugène Scribe and the Danish dramatist Erik Bøgh. This evidence strongly suggests that Ibsen strategically parodied the vaudeville, which has broader implications for understanding both his break with aesthetic idealism and the development of modern drama.

• Rees, Ellen (2024). Seeing Queerness in Ibsen’s Pillars of Society. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. ISSN 0013-0818. 111(4), p. 194–209. doi: 10.18261/edda.111.4. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article presents a queer reading of Henrik Ibsen’s Pillars of Society (1877). This reading of the “gender trouble” in the play arises out of what might be called its “genre trouble”; the author claims that Ibsen makes use of the ambiguities of the lystspill genre in order to satirize idealist discourses regarding patriarchy and capitalism. Building on reflections on queerness in Judith Jack Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure (2011) and Sara Ahmed’s The Promise of Happiness (2010), the article then explores forms of resistance to heteronormativity visible in the characters Lona Hessel, Marta Bernick, and Hilmar Tønnesen.

• Rees, Ellen (2024). Nora Helmer and Thora Helmer: Henrik Ibsen at Play with the Vaudeville. Comparative Literature Studies. ISSN 0010-4132. 61(3), p. 497–519. doi: 10.5325/complitstudies.61.3.0497. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article gives evidence for considering the vaudeville genre as a factor that complicates our received understanding of the plays of Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. It situates Ibsen’s activity as a theater practitioner in relation to both the prolific French dramatist Eugène Scribe and the Danish theater director and dramatist Johan Ludvig Heiberg, explores Ibsen’s own critical writing about the popular theater, and then traces intertextual resonances with the work of yet another Danish dramatist, Erik Bøgh. In particular, the author links Bøgh’s all-but-forgotten 1853 vaudeville, Et enfoldigt Pigebarn (A Guileless Girl) with Ibsen’s universally acclaimed modern dramas, Et Dukkehjem (1879; A Doll’s House) and Hedda Gabler (1890; Hedda Gabler). What this re-contextualization reveals, is an Ibsen who was far more oriented toward and influenced by transnational popular theater genres than previous scholarship has recognized.

• Rees, Ellen; D'Amico, Giuliano & Holt, Thor (2023). Ibsen in Performance. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 23(2), p. 250–267. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2023.2268353. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2023). Preface. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 23(1), p. 1–5. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2023.2215001. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2023). Ibsen, Sancthansnatten og de "saakaldte lavere Kunstarter". Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. ISSN 0013-0818. 110(2), p. 74–89. doi: 10.18261/edda.110.2.2. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Med 2022-oppsetningen av Sancthansnatten ved Ibsen Museum & Teater i Oslo som utgangspunkt stiller denne artikkelen spørsmål ved to seiglivede myter knyttet til Henrik Ibsens forhold til den populære teaterkunsten som dominerte Europa på 1850-tallet: at Catilina var det første «seriøse» norske skuespillet på sju år da det kom ut i 1850, og at Ibsen tok avstand fra «useriøse» scenetekster skrevet av utenlandske dramatikere som Eugène Scribe. Målet er å kaste et kritisk blikk på den litteraturhistoriske fremstillingen av den norske teaterkulturen og argumentere for en åpnere tilnærming til scenetekstene Ibsen forholdt seg til mens han arbeidet i teatret. Dette fører til nye innsikter om hvordan vaudeville-sjangeren kan ha påvirket Ibsens forhold til romantisk idealisme.

• Rees, Ellen (2023). A Brief History of the Centre for Ibsen Studies. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2023.2268354. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2023). Nordic Romanticism: Translation, Transmission, Transformation ed. by Cian Duffy and Robert W. Rix (review). Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5637. 95(4), p. 552–556. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2022). Between the Map and the Terrain: Erlend O. Nødtvedt's Vestlandet. European Journal of Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 2191-9399. 52(1), p. 103–122. doi: 10.1515/ejss-2022-2066. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article explores heteropian, utopian and dystopian places in Erlend O. Nødtvedt’s 2017 novel, Vestlandet, in order to better understand how the author uses references to regional historical and contemporary figures and events to construct what Edward Said labeled a cultural archive in a larger anti-imperialist project. Language, landscape, and identity form the core of Nødtvedt’s project. This raucously humorous novel activates the Foucauldian heteropias of indefinitely accumulating time and of the festival, as well as Marc Augé’s notion of the non-place in order to comment upon the perceived cultural and political divide between western and eastern Norway.

• Rees, Ellen (2022). Peer Gynt: The Missing Years. Peer Gynt (1915), Peer Gynts Jugend and Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod (1919). In Hanssen, Eirik Frisvold & Lund, Maria Fosheim (Ed.), Silent Ibsen. Transnational Film Adaptation in the 1910s and 1920s. National Library of Norway. ISSN 9788279655275. p. 125–146. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The silent era represents the height of Henrik Ibsen’s popularity as a source for film adaptations, and as a reference in debates on cinema. About thirty known silent film adaptations of Ibsen’s works were made in several countries. In this book, leading international Ibsen scholars and film historians examine the nine silent Ibsen films that are known to be extant, made in the period 1911-1926 in the United States, Sweden, Germany, and Italy. The films are placed in their specific film historical and industrial settings, as well as broader sociopolitical frameworks, and Ibsen’s various and shifting positions within these different national and cultural contexts. The book also includes a filmography of silent Ibsen film adaptations.

• Rees, Ellen & Holt, Thor (2022). Entanglements of Adaptation, Allegory, and Reception: Jaws and An Enemy of the People. Journal of Aesthetics and Culture. 14(1). doi: 10.1080/20004214.2021.2022864. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In this article the authors discuss Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) with Henrik Ibsen’s En Folkefiende (An Enemy of the People; 1882) as a test case for formulating a better theoretical understanding of adaptations that are neither “announced” nor “extended”; the analysis thus explores adaptation as a special form of intertextuality. The authors reference other cinematic engagements with the same play, including Hans Steinhoff’s Ein Volksfeind (1937), Detlef Sierck’s La Habanera (1937), George Schaefer’s An Enemy of the People (1978), Satyajit Ray’s Ganashatru (1989), and Erik Skjoldbjærg’s En folkefiende (2005), as they investigate the importance of polysemic allegorical structures, the inherently “dialectical” nature of the process of adaptation, the role of reception in newer theories of adaptation, and the implications of understanding adaptation as a particular film genre. The authors propose viewing adaptation as a process that necessarily includes the audience’s understanding of hypotext and hypertext in ways that influence meaning production; it invites consideration of the source text in the film’s reception, consequently linking the source text and its author to other cultural and social discourses that, in turn, influence their reception reflexively in light of the adaptation.

• Rees, Ellen (2021). Neokolonialistisk maskulinitet og «alt-right»-ideologi i bøkene om Kongo-saken, Minoritetsdiskurser i norsk litteratur. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215045320. p. 201–220. doi: 10.18261/9788215045320-2021. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2021). Abject Masculinity in Niels Fredrik Dahl's Herre. Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5637. 93(2), p. 266–286. doi: 10.5406/scanstud.93.2.0266. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2021). Mass Media and Popular Reception. In Fulsås, Narve & Rem, Tore (Ed.), Ibsen in Context. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781108422208. p. 264–271. doi: 10.1017/9781108381130.037. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2020). Hytte-humor -- om sanitetsbind og begjær. European Journal of Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 2191-9399. 50(2), p. 302–313. doi: 10.1515/ejss-2020-2015. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Abstract This article considers two comedy sketches that poke fun at cabin culture, a key praxis in contemporary Norway. The sketches are examples of what philosopher Simon Critchley calls «comedy of recognition», reflecting rather than challenging common experiences and beliefs. Focusing on the attitudes held by men and women toward cabins, the article examines how in particular masculinity is experienced and performed in this setting. The article concludes that cabins express complex feelings connected to personal, gender and national identities, and that they are therefore an apt vehicle for comedy about what it means to be Norwegian today.

• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2020). Fogden, kvinnen og taterungen. Omstreifermotivet i Ibsens Brand. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. ISSN 0013-0818. 107(4), p. 242–253. doi: 10.18261/issn.1500-1989-2020-04-02. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Artikkelen undersøker Henrik Ibsens bruk av romanifolket som motiv i lesedramaet Brand. Gjennom en nærlesning av scenene hvor omstreifere står i fokus, utvikler artikkelen et mer nyansert syn på «Taterungen» Gerd og vurderer hvorvidt Brand gjenspeiler eller motarbeider den offentlige diskursen om romanifolket i perioden. Brand leses i lys av Eilert Sundts Beretning om Fante- eller Landstrygerfolket i Norge, en rapport fra 1850 som reflekterer en økende offentlig interesse for de reisende. Analysen kaster nytt lys over det symbolske søskenforholdet mellom Gerd og Brand, og viser hvordan Ibsen overfører egenskaper assosiert med taterne til Brand.

• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2020). Bjørnsons Sigurd Slembe og samenes plass i Norges kulturelle arkiv. Norsk litteraturvitenskapelig tidsskrift. ISSN 0809-2044. 23(1-2020), p. 40–52. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-288X-2020-01-04. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Denne artikkelen kontekstualiserer Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons Sigurd Slembe (1862) historisk, for å belyse hvordan stykket reflekterer pågående samfunnsdebatter og innføringen av en ny assimileringspolitikk. Artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i Edward Saids begrep «det kulturelle arkivet» for å forstå hvordan Sigurd Slembe kommenterer og bidrar til større geopolitiske og historiske prosesser. Analysen fokuserer på en navnløs samisk karakter for å få fram verkets tvetydighet og minoritetsdiskursenes kompleksitet i Bjørnsons samtid. Også den samtidige resepsjonen og påfølgende tolkningstradisjonen inngår i dette kulturelle arkivet, og artikkelen går i kritisk dialog med det reaksjonære og til dels rasistiske grunnlaget for Bjørnson-forskningen.

• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2018). Åsne Seierstad's En av oss: Perpetrator and Victim in the Construction of National Innocence. Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5637. 90(1), p. 1–22. doi: 10.5406/scanstud.90.1.0001. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2017). Norsk skyld i Jo Nesbøs Flaggermusmannen og Kakerlakkene. In Bakken, Jonas & Oxfeldt, Elisabeth (Ed.), Åpne dører mot verden. Norske ungdommers møte med fortellinger om skyld og privilegier. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215030227. p. 163–180. doi: 10.18261/9788215030227-2017-10. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Jo Nesbøs to første kriminalromaner, Flaggermusmannen (1997) og Kakerlakkene  (1998), foregår begge i utlandet, i henholdsvis Australia og Thailand, og begge tar opp store globale utfordringer. I Flaggermusmannen setter Nesbø fokus på Australias undertrykkelse av aboriginer, og i Kakerlakkene er det sexturisme generelt og pedofili især som kommer under lupen. Problemstillingen i artikkelen er i hvor stor grad Nesbø eksplisitt eller implisitt argumenterer for norsk medskyld i disse globale utfordringene, eller i hvor stor grad han implisitt framstiller Norge som uskyldig sammenliknet med andre land.

• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2017). Seasonal secondary dwellings. In Sondrup, Steven P.; Sandberg, Mark; A., DuBois Thomas & Ringgaard, Dan (Ed.), Nordic Literature: A Comparative History. Volume 1: Spatial Nodes. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027234681. p. 478–485. doi: 10.1075/chlel.xxxi.38ree. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2016). “Ingvar Ambjørnsens hytte-noir”. European Journal of Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 2191-9399. 46(2), p. 234–249. doi: 10.1515/ejss-2016-0021. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2016). Privilege, innocence, and "petro-guilt" in Maria Sødahl's Limbo. Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5637. 88(1), p. 42–59. doi: 10.5406/scanstud.88.1.42. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2016). Dramatizing biographers: Michael Meyer's a meeting in Rome and Robert Ferguson's Dr. Ibsen's Ghosts. Modern Drama. ISSN 0026-7694. 59(1), p. 75–94. doi: 10.3138/md.0728. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2016). Den barmhjertige Ibsen: Simon Strangers Gjengangeren. In Ommundsen, Åse Marie; Andersen, Per Thomas & Bliksrud, Liv (Ed.), Modernitet, barndom, historie. Festskrift til Harald Bache-Wiig. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270998517. p. 141–153. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2015). Post-Secular Salvation: Hallvard Bræin's Gatas Gynt. Nordlit. ISSN 0809-1668. p. 371–378. doi: 10.7557/13.3382. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article considers Hallvard Bræin’s 2008 film adaptation of Peer Gynt in light of theories of the post-secular. It argues that the film presents a post-secular interpretation of the ambiguous message of salvation at the end of Ibsen’s dramatic poem. Through a combination of analysis of the film itself and examination of its production history, the article evaluates to what degree the film expresses a specifically Christian notion of salvation, and suggests that it opens for non-dogmatic interpretations of what salvation might mean, and who exactly is in need of it in the post-secular era. An examination of the who, what, when, and where of this adaptation (Hutcheon 2006) identifies how the filmmakers use Ibsen’s original text as a vehicle for a specific social message regarding the plight of people suffering from substance abuse and homelessness in contemporary Norway.

• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2015). Henrik Ibsen som tegneseriefigur: fra Sfinksen til Dovregubben. Kunst og Kultur. ISSN 0023-5415. 98(1), p. 14–27. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2015). "The Nordic Quirky 'Feel-Good'". In Kääpä, Pietari & Gustavsson, Tommy (Ed.), Nordic Genre Film: Small Nation Film Cultures in the Global Marketplace. Edinburgh University Press. ISSN 9780748693184. p. 147–158. doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748693184.003.0011. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2014). "Ibsen Exposed: Atle Næss's Sensommer and Niels Fredrik Dahl's Henrik og Emilie". European Journal of Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 2191-9399. 44(2), p. 186–204. doi: 10.1515/ejss-2014-0011. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2014). Fables of the norwegian intelligentsia. Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5637. 86(3), p. 352–362. doi: 10.1353/scd.2014.0024. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca & Houston, Lynn (2014). "Patriarchal Consumption of the Female Body in Cecilie Løveids Måkespisere". In Thomson, C. Claire & Carbone, Elettra (Ed.), Love and Modernity. Norvik Press. ISSN 9781870041997. p. 349–362. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2014). "Tales of the Norwegian Intelligentsia". Anmeldelse av Nina Witoszeks The Origins of the “Regime of Goodness”: Remapping the Cultural History of Norway (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2011). Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5637. 86(3), p. 352–362. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2014). “‘Langt borte, sammen og litt hjemme likevel’: det hjemlige og det kosmopolitiske i Helga Flatlands bygdetrilogi.”. In Dingstad, Ståle; Norheim, Thorstein & Rees, Ellen Rebecca (Ed.), Kulturmøter i nordisk samtidslitteratur. Festskrift til Per Thomas Andersen. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270997787. p. 91–105. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2013). Transnational Christmas in Mona J. Hoel's "Dogme 95" Film Når nettene blir lange. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. ISSN 2042-7891. 3(3), p. 215–226. doi: 10.1386/jsca.3.3.215_1. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2013). Melodramatic Traces and Places in The Lady from the Sea. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 13(2), p. 79–100. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2013.849034. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2013). The Place of the Nation in Camilla Collett's Amtmandens Døttre. Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5637. 85(4), p. 431–454. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2013). Bjørnsons "Sæterromantik". In Bliksrud, Liv; D'Amico, Giuliano; Wulfsberg, Marius & Åslund, Arnfinn (Ed.), Den Engasjerte kosmopolitt : nye Bjørnson-studier. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270997251. p. 203–216. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2013). Cabins and National Identity in Norwegian Literature. In Isomaa, Saija; Lyytikäinen, Pirjo; Saarikangas, K. & Suominen-Kokkonen, Renja (Ed.), Imagining Spaces and Places. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 9781443849562. p. 125–142. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2013). Body, Corpus, and Corpse: Delineating Henrik Ibsen in A.S. Byatt's The Biographer's Tale. In Viljoen, Hein (Eds.), Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries. Brill | Rodopi. ISSN 9789042036383. p. 155–180. doi: 10.1163/9789401209083_009. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows how literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in rich and meaningful local contexts. The essays assembled here analyse the crossing and negotiation of borders and boundaries in works by Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Winterbach, Deneys Reitz, Janet Suzman, Marlene van Niekerk, A.S. Byatt, Thomas Harris, Frank A. Jenssen, Eben Venter, Antjie Krog, and others under different signs or conceptual points of attraction. These signs include a spiritual turn, eventfulness, self-understanding, ethnic and linguistic mobilization, performative chronotopes, the grotesque, the carceral, the rhetorical, and the interstitial. Contributors: Ileana Dimitriu, Heilna du Plooy, John Gouws, Anne Heith, Lida Krüger, Susan Meyer, Adéle Nel, Ellen Rees, Johan Schimanski, Tony Ullyatt, Phil van Schalkwyk, Hein Viljoen.

• Rees, Ellen (2013). The place of the nation in Camilla Collett's Amtmandens Døttre. Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5637. 85(4), p. 431–454. doi: 10.5406/scanstud.85.4.0431. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2012). Nikolaj Frobenius's Teori og praksis in Theory and Practice. Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5637. 84(1), p. 59–86. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2011). "Det egentlige Norge" - hytter i norsk litteratur, ca 1814-2005. In Gansmo, Helen Jøsok; Berker, Thomas & Jørgensen, Finn Arne (Ed.), Norske hytter i endring. Om bærekraft og behag. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. ISSN 9788251927901. p. 23–36. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2011). Cora Sandels fiksjon/Cora Sandel som fiksjon. Bøygen: Organ for nordisk språk og litteratur. ISSN 0806-8623. p. 8–16. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2011). Hamsun's Problematic "I": The Wanderer Trilogy as Performative Biographism. In Dingstad, Ståle; Frøjd, Ylva; Oxfeldt, Elisabeth & Rees, Ellen (Ed.), Knut Hamsun: Transgression and Worlding. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. ISSN 9788251927284. p. 65–83. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2011). By the open sea: Ibsen's Fruen fra havet and Fosse's Nokon kjem til å komme. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 11(2), p. 192–222. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2011.610592. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2011). Trolls, Monster Masts, and National Neurosis: André Øvrelid's The Troll Hunter. Scandinavica - An International Journal of Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5653. 50(2), p. 52–62. Full text in Research Archive

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• Rees, Ellen; Dingstad, Ståle & D'Amico, Giuliano (2024). Helland in Retrospect. Ten Essays on Ibsen. Novus Forlag. ISBN 9788283901573. 181 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2023). Den populærkulturelle Ibsen - En studie i nyere norsk resepsjon. Scandinavian Academic Press. ISBN 9788230402887. 370 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen; Karlsen, Heidi; Brovold, Madelen & Dingstad, Ståle (2021). Minoritetsdiskurser i norsk litteratur. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215045320. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2014). Cabins in Modern Norwegian Literature: Negotiating Place and Identity. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 9781611476484. 195 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Dingstad, Ståle; Norheim, Thorstein & Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2014). Kulturmøter i nordisk samtidslitteratur. Festskrift til Per Thomas Andersen. Novus Forlag. ISBN 9788270997787. 283 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2014). Ibsen's Peer Gynt and the Production of Meaning. Senter for Ibsen-studier. ISBN 9788291540177. 157 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Dingstad, Ståle; Frøjd, Ylva; Oxfeldt, Elisabeth & Rees, Ellen (2011). Knut Hamsun: Transgression and Worlding. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. ISBN 9788251927284. 310 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Crosby, John David; Rees, Ellen & Høiner, Espen Klouman (2026). Mellom tekst og scene i 150 år: en samtale om Peer Gynt - Litteraturhuset i Trondheim. doi: https:/litteraturhusetitrondheim.no/program/mellom-tekst-og-scene-i-150-ar-en-samtale-om-peer-gynt/. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2022). Tropes Revisited: Evert Sprinchorn’s Ibsen’s Kingdom: The Man and His Works and Recent Historical Research in Ibsen Studies. Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5637. 94(4), p. 530–545. doi: 10.5406/21638195.94.4.06. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2021). IBSENtalks: Koronavaksine i lys av En folkefiende. [Internet]. Skien kommune/YouTube. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen; Karlsen, Heidi; Brovold, Madelen & Dingstad, Ståle (2021). Innledning: Norden i verden – verden i Norden, Minoritetsdiskurser i norsk litteratur. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215045320. doi: 10.18261/9788215045320-2021-01. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2021). "Mellem evne og higen": forskning på NRK Radioteatret og Fjernsynsteatret. Full text in Research Archive
• D'Amico, Giuliano; Rees, Ellen & Helland, Frode (2021). På dette senteret har langt de fleste bakgrunn fra utlandet. [Internet]. Khrono.no. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2021). Embodying Ibsen: Biofiction on Stage. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2021). The Book History/Distant Reading/Reception Studies Nexus. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2021). Preface. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 21(1), p. 1–3. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2021.1932277. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2020). Oslo/Kristiania/Christiania: Ibsen, Hamsun, and the Modern Urban Breakthrough. In Tambling, Jeremy (Eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783319625928. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_273-1. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2020). (Re-)Imagining Norway: Practices of Literary Inclusion and Exclusion. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2020). Om "at lade afdøde Digters Værker leve opp igjen". Anmeldelse av Erik Bjerck Hagens Norsk litteratur 1830–1875. Romantikk, realisme, modernism. Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon. ISSN 0800-7136. p. 453–461. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2020). Retrograde Masculinity: The Case of Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2019). Melodrama med mening. p. 14–15. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2019). Minoritetsdiskurser i norsk nasjonalromantikk. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2018). A Computational Assessment of Norwegian Literary ’National Romanticism’. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2015). Anmeldelse av Ibsen’s Houses: Architectural Metaphor and the Modern Uncanny, av Mark B. Sandberg. Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5637. 87(4), p. 544–547. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2015). Anmeldelse av Hvordan lese Ibsen? Samtalen om hans dramatikk 1879-2015 av Erik Bjerck Hagen. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 15(1), p. 99–102. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2015). Preface. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 15(1), p. 1–2. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2015.1099870. Full text in Research Archive
• Dingstad, Ståle; Norheim, Thorstein & Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2014). Innledning. In Dingstad, Ståle; Norheim, Thorstein & Rees, Ellen Rebecca (Ed.), Kulturmøter i nordisk samtidslitteratur. Festskrift til Per Thomas Andersen. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270997787. p. 9–17. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2014). Peer Gynt til hverdagsbruk. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2014). Peer i ei vending. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2014). Small Screen, Big Ideas: Bentein Baardson's Peer Gynt. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2014). Førsteamanuensis Ellen Rees om nordmenns hyttevaner. [TV]. NRK Sommeråpent. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2014). Jakten på den ekte Peer. [Journal]. Klassekampen. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2014). "Peer Gynt". [Radio]. NRK Kulturhuset. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2014). Hytta, så klart. [Journal]. Aftenposten. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2014). Hytta skal være enkel. [Radio]. NRK P1 Norgesglasset. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2014). Mi: Jüri Reinvere's Peer Gynt-Opera. [TV]. ETV. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2013). På jakt etter humoren i Når vi døde vågner: Ibsens Nansen-parodi. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2013). anmeldelse av Hamsun i Tromsø V, Even Arntzen, Nils M. Knutsen og Henning Howlid Wærp (red.). Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5637. 85(4), p. 529–532. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2013). Framing Henrik ibsen: The Comic Book as Criticism. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2013). Hamsun in Tromsø V: Report from the 5th Hamsun International Conference, 2011. Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5637. 85(4), p. 529–532. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2013). Dramatizing Dramatists: Michael Meyer’s A Meeting in Rome. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2013). Jakter på norske hyttekoder. [Journal]. Aftenposten. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2013). Fra fattigmannshus til fritidsbolig. [Journal]. Valdresmagasinet. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2013). anmeldelse av Ibsen og fotografene: 1800-tallets visuelle kultur, av Peter Larsen. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. ISSN 0013-0818. p. 244–246. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2013). Forskning på hytte-Norge. [Radio]. NRK - Norgesglasset. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen Rebecca (2013). Litterære hyttebøker. [Journal]. Morgenbladet. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2013). Henrik Ibsen, Kung-fu Master and Steampunk Secret Agent. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2012). Building Cabins and Building Character: The Outdoors in Britain and Norway. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2012). Cabin Fever. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2012). anmeldelse av Mord og metafysik: Det absolutte, det guddomelige og det overnaturlige i krimien, av Kim Toft Hansen. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. ISSN 0013-0818. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2012). Excess and Asceticism in Norwegian Cabin Culture. Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2012). A.S. Byatt’s The Biographer’s Tale: An Ibsen Postmortem? Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2012). Postsecular Salvation: Hallvard Bræin’s Gatas Gynt (2008). Full text in Research Archive
• Rees, Ellen (2012). Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea and Romantic Theatre. Full text in Research Archive
• Oxfeldt, Elisabeth; Dingstad, Ståle; Frøjd, Ylva & Rees, Ellen (2011). "Editors' Introduction". In Dingstad, Ståle; Frøjd, Ylva; Oxfeldt, Elisabeth & Rees, Ellen (Ed.), Knut Hamsun: Transgression and Worlding. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. ISSN 9788251927284. p. 11–14. Full text in Research Archive

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