Giuliano D'Amico

Director - Professor of Scandinavian literature
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Visiting address Henrik Wergelands hus Niels Henrik Abels 32 Oslo
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Academic interests

My research is focused on Scandinavian literature from the 19th century up till today, with a main focus on Henrik Ibsen. My main research interests include the reception and translation history of Scandinavian authors like Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, August Strindberg and Knut Hamsun in Europe (especially England, France, Germany and Italy). In connection to these areas I have also developed an interest in copyright history and how it can be used for a better understanding of literary history. My first monograph, Domesticating Ibsen for Italy, was published in 2013. More recently, I have developed an interest in the academic study of Western esotericism and how it has influenced selected Scandinavian authors. In 2020 I wrote Tilbake til fremtiden (Back to the future), the first academic monograph on Scandinavian retrogardism and the poetry of Håkan Sandell. At the moment  I am working at a book project on spectrality in Ibsen's plays.

Courses taught

Ibsen Studies (master's 2-years)

IBS2101/4101 – Ibsen's works: History, Text, Performance

IBS2205/4205 – New Perspectives in Ibsen Studies

IBS2210/4210 – Ibsen i praksis

IBS2220/4220 – Ibsen og det moderne drama

Appointments and other projects

Director of the Centre for Ibsen Studies (2023-2027)

Co-editor of Ibsen Studies (2018-)

Secretary and member of The International Ibsen Committee (2018-2020, 2023-2027)

Teaching coordinator at the Centre for Ibsen Studies (2018-2020)

Background

Associate professor of Scandinavian literature, University of Oslo (2017-2023)

Associate professor of Scandinavian literature, NTNU (2015-2017)

Associate professor of Scandinavian literature, Volda University College (2012-2015)

Post-doc, University of Oslo (2011-2012)

Ph.D. in comparative literature, University of Oslo (2008-2010)

Teacher of Scandinavian literature, University of Milan (2009-2011)

Teacher of Norwegian language and literature, University of Turin (2006-2011)

Visiting scholarships

Ca' Foscari University of Venice (2022)

University of Strasbourg (2017)

University of Palermo (2010)

University of Turin (2008-2010)

Partnerships

Research project Made Abroad: Producing Norwegian World Literature in a Time of Rupture, 1900-50 (National Library of Norway)

Tags: Ibsen, Scandinavian literature, Western esotericism, Translation Studies, History of the Book, Reception Studies, Sociology of Literature

Publications

Books

2020        Tilbake til fremtiden. Håkan Sandell og den nordiske retrogardismen, Oslo, Scandinavian Academic Press, 331 p.

2013        Domesticating Ibsen for Italy. Enrico and Icilio Polese’s Ibsen Campaign, Bari, Edizioni di Pagina, 376 p.

 

Articles and book chapters

2024          "Boksamling og bokhistorie i en nordisk kontekst. Et bokessay", Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 53(2-3), p. 31–57.

2023          "A Short History of Ibsen Reception Studies", Ibsen Studies 23.2, p. 199–213.

2023          "Mennesket som medium" (with Gerd Karin Omdal), in Malvik A.S., Boasson F.L. og Warberg S.H. (eds.) Det mediale gjennombruddet,    Scandinavian Academic Press, p. 244–301.

2023          "The Fantasy of Peer Gynt: Ibsen and Thesophy in Early Twentieth-Century Scotland", Correspondences 11.2, p. 1–36.

2022          "Henrik Ibsen and Conspiracy Thinking: The Case of Peer Gynt", Scandinavian Studies 94.3, p. 281–315.

2022          "'Rather Than Buddha’s Calm, I Choose the Crucifixion' – Håkan Sandell’s Christian Palimpsests" in Mohnike T. and Grage J. (eds.), Aesthetics of Protestantism in Northern Europe. Exploring the Field. Brepols, p. 233–245.

2022          "Al di là delle forze umane. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson e il dibattito sul mesmerismo", in Brunetti S., Petrini A. and Randi E. (eds.), "Vi metto fra le mani il testo affinché ne possiate diventare voi gli autori." Scritti per Franco Perrelli. Edizioni di Pagina, p. 36–45.

2021          "Copyright", in Narve Fulsås & Tore Rem (ed.),  Ibsen in Context,  Cambridge University Press, p. 149–156.

2019          “Solguden and Other Stories: Hamsun, Ibsen and Forgery”, Edda 4, p. 249–263.

2018          “Retrogardism and Occulture in Håkan Sandell’s Poetry”, in H. Johnsson og T. Bauduin (eds.), Occult Modernism: The Occult in   Modernist Art, Literature and Cinema, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 215–234.

2017          “Henrietta Frances Lord – Translating Ibsen for the Theosophical Movement”, Scandinavica 56.1, p. 96–122.

2016          “Henrik Ibsen und seine Agenten. Über acht bisher unbekannteVerträge zwischen Ibsen und Felix Bloch Erben» in J. Bjerring-Hansen, T. Jelsbak & M. Wenusch (eds.), Die skandinavische Moderne und Europa, Wiener Studien zur Skandinavistik 23, p. 99–119.

2015        “The Whole World is One Atom Station. Laxness, the Cold War, Postcolonialism and the Economic Crisis in Iceland”, Scandinavian Studies 87.4, p. 457–488.

2015        “Sinne, selvinnsikt og det politisk ukorrekte. Raseri av Cornelius Jakhelln”, in Massimo Ciaravolo et al. (eds.), Forme di narrazione autobiografica nelle letterature scandinave / Forms of autobiographical narration in Scandinavian literatures, Firenze University Press, p. 307–318.

2015        “Between Occultism and Drama: Henrik Ibsen and Aleister Crowley”, Nordlit 34, p. 95–103.

2014        “Six Points for a Comparative Ibsen Reception History”, Ibsen Studies 14.1, p. 4–37.

2014        “Editore-traditore? Knut Hamsun lest, oversatt og publisert av italienske neofascister”, Edda 114.1, p. 33–51.

2013        “Man ejer ikke Bøger, som man ejer Hus – Bjørnson og opphavsrett”, in Liv Bliksrud et al. (eds.), Den engasjerte kosmopolitt. Nye Bjørnson-studier, Oslo, Novus, p. 31–43.

2012          “Aleister Crowley reads Inferno. Towards an Occult Reception of Strindberg”, Scandinavian Studies 84.3, p. 323–346.

2011        “Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson e il dramma storico: un rapporto complesso”, in Massimo Ciaravolo and Andrea Meregalli (eds.), L’uso della storia nelle letterature nordiche. Le lingue nordiche tra storia e attualità, Milano, Istituto Editoriale Universitario Cisalpino, p. 69–88.

2010          “The Father in Strindberg’s French Self-Translation”, Edda 2, p. 125–140.

2009        “Fighting for the Cause of Ibsen: William Archer and the Translation of The Wild Duck”, Northern Studies 40, p. 82–101.

2008          “From Sentimentalism to Realism: Materials on the Early Italian Reception of A Bankruptcy by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson”, North-West Passage 5, p. 97–115.

2007        “Italians do it better? Four Nordic Reviews of Early Ibsen Performances in Italy”, North-West Passage 4, p. 129–146.

  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2023). A Short History of Ibsen Reception Studies. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 23(2), p. 199–213. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2023.2268355. Full text in Research Archive
  • 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
  • Omdal, Gerd Karin & D'Amico, Giuliano (2023). Mennesket som medium. In Boasson, Frode Lerum; Malvik, Anders Skare & Warberg, Silje Haugen (Ed.), Det mediale gjennombruddet. Medieestetiske lesninger av det sene 1800-tallets litteratur. Scandinavian Academic Press. ISSN 9788230402511. p. 244–301.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2023). The Fantasy of Peer Gynt. Ibsen and Theosophy in Early Twentieth-Century Scotland. Correspondences: Online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism. ISSN 2053-7158. 11(2), p. 1–36. Full text in Research Archive
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). "Rather Than Buddha’s Calm, I Choose the Crucifixion” – Håkan Sandell’s Christian Palimpsests. In Grage, Joachim; Mohnike, Thomas & Rohrbach, Lena (Ed.), Aesthetics of Protestantism in Northern Europe. Exploring the Field. Brepols. ISSN 9782503601601. p. 233–245.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). Henrik Ibsen and Conspiracy Thinking: The Case of Peer Gynt. Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5637. 94(3), p. 281–315. Full text in Research Archive
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). "Al di là delle forze umane." Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson e il dibattito sul mesmerismo. In Brunetti, Simona; Petrini, Armando & Randi, Elena (Ed.), «Vi metto fra le mani il testo affinché ne possiate diventare voi gli autori.» Scritti per Franco Perrelli. Edizioni di Pagina. ISSN 978-88-7470-869-7. p. 36–45.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2021). Copyright. In Fulsås, Narve & Rem, Tore (Ed.), Ibsen in Context. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 978-1-108-42220-8. p. 149–156.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2019). Solguden and Other Stories. Hamsun, Ibsen and Forgery. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. ISSN 0013-0818. 106(4-2019), p. 249–263. doi: 10.18261/issn.1500-1989-2019-04-02. Full text in Research Archive
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2018). Retrogardism and Occulture in Håkan Sandell's Poetry. In Bauduin, Tessel & Johnsson, Henrik (Ed.), The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-319-76498-6. p. 215–234. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76499-3_10.

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  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2020). Tilbake til fremtiden. Håkan Sandell og den nordiske retrogardismen. Scandinavian Academic Press. ISBN 9788230402498. 331 p.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano & Culeddu, Sara (2019). Letteratura norvegese. Associazione Giuseppe Acerbi. ISBN 9788894216516. 160 p.
  • Jakhelln, Cornelius & D'Amico, Giuliano (2018). Jeg er mennesket. Dikt i naturlig utvalg. Cappelen Damm AS. ISBN 9788202598877. 198 p.

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  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2023). Sigrid Undset i Vatikanet.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2023). Boksamling og bokhistorie i en nordisk kontekst. Et bokessay. Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. ISSN 1104-0556. 53(2-3), p. 31–57.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano & Cortelazzo, Anna (2023). Voci della Norvegia: un viaggio nella letteratura contemporanea. [Internet]. Il Bolive.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano & Stefansen, Arnt (2023). Nordisk november i Roma. [Internet]. Katolsk.no.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2023). Ibsen a Roma - una rilettura.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2023). Occulture as (literary) theory.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano & Passeri, Ludovica (2023). Perché Jon Fosse ha vinto il Premio Nobel per la letteratura. [Internet]. Sky TG24.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2023). Martins Schøyens Ibsen-samling.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano & Jakhelln, Cornelius (2023). Min verden av vrak og vindu mot nåden.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2023). Bjørnson, le prix Nobel oublié.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2023). Like barn leker best? Om hvordan jeg ble nordist og sluttet å bekymre meg over det.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2023). Ibsen e il fenomeno Ibsen.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2023). “Follow the Ibsen Money – Le tournée ibseniane di Cesare Rossi in prospettiva economico-cartografica”.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2023). Ibsens spektralitet – med særlig vekt på "Brand".
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). Giuliano D'Amico. [Business/trade/industry journal]. Rapport d'activité 2021 - Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). Henrik Ibsen entre réalité virtuelle et cartographie numérique.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano; Mollerin, Kaja Schjerven; Gran, Sissel & Moum Aune, Marit (2022). Ibsen og Strindberg – dødsdansende erkefiender.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). "Les aldri bøker!" Reflections on literary history and Norwegian contemporary book collections.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano & Lindholm, Audun (2022). Hvor er de intellektuelle blitt av?
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). Ghosts and Spectrality in Henrik Ibsen’s "Brand".
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). Ragna Nielsen’s séance diaries: spiritualism, book history and the Modern Breakthrough.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). "Is it you, Ibsen?": Ragna Nielsen’s Spiritualism as a Hauntology of the Modern Breakthrough.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). Methodologies for Literary Esotericism Studies: Interpretation.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). Hermetic Semiosis in Translation: "The Fantasy of Peer Gynt".
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). Ibsen e la teosofia - problemi metodologici.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). «Follow the money»: italienske Ibsen-turnéer i et geografisk-økonomisk perspektiv.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano & Frydenlund, Edith Embla (2022). Samtale med Giuliano D'Amico. [Journal]. Bøygen.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). Esoterisme og nordisk (ok)kultur.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). Hva er greia med Hamsun? [Internet]. NDLA.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). Hva er greia med Ibsen? [Internet]. NDLA.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). Hermetic Semiosis and Conspiracy Thinking as Modes of Reception.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2022). Copyright History on the German-Italian Stage: The Struggle over "Krieg im Frieden".
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2021). Follow the Ibsen money. A pilot project on Ibsen tours.
  • Lundh, Live & D'Amico, Giuliano (2021). Hverdagsokkultismen slår tilbake. [Journal]. Bokvennen litterær avis.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano; Rem, Tore & Lilleslåtten, Mari (2021). Ibsens internasjonale suksess er en historie om omskriving og piratoversettelser.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2021). Hermetic semiosis revisited: "The Fantasy of Peer Gynt".
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2021). Pour une histoire de l'ésotérisme en littérature.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano; Rees, Ellen & Helland, Frode (2021). På dette senteret har langt de fleste bakgrunn fra utlandet. [Internet]. Khrono.no.
  • Aguilar-Støen, Mariel; D'Amico, Giuliano & Langford, Malcolm Stroud (2021). Synsing om utenlandske forskere. Khrono.no. ISSN 1894-8995.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2020). Tradizione e modernità nella poesia di Håkan Sandell. In Cappellari, Simona; De Marco, Catia & Colombo, Giorgio (Ed.), Quaderni del Premio Letterario Giuseppe Acerbi. Letteratura svedese. Associazione Giuseppe Acerbi. ISSN 9788894216547. p. 89–91.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano; Muniz, Iris & Holt, Thor (2020). Forsnakk.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2020). Ibsen and Forgery.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2020). Retrogardism and Metrics in Håkan Sandell’s Poetry. NORDMETRIK News. ISSN 2535-6011. p. 5–10.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2020). Falsi e storia letteraria. Il caso Ibsen-Hamsun.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2020). Copyright and the Norwegian Modern Breakthrough.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2020). Hermetic Semiosis as a Mode of Reception.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2020). In memoria di Federico Tozzi, editore coraggioso. Rivista Savej.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2020). Covid e Norvegia. [Radio]. Qui un tempo era tutta campagna. Elettorale..
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2019). Solguden – forfalskning og litteraturhistorie, litteraturhistorie som forfalskning.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2019). Ibsen i praksis. Nye ideer om Ibsen i skolen.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2019). Felix Bloch Erben and the Marketing of Ibsen’s plays in Europe.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2019). Strindberg Among Occultists: The Case of the Rider Editions.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2019). Hamsun og forfalskningens grenser.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2019). Shamanism, Magic and Altered States in Håkan Sandell's Poetry.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2019). Henrik Ibsen's "The Fantasy of Peer Gynt". Drama and Theosophy in Britain.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2019). Solguden - Ibsen et la contrefaçon.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2019). Black metal norvegese. [Radio]. RSI - Radiotelevisione svizzera - Lugano.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2019). La poesia del metallo nero. In Agosta, Marco (Eds.), The Passenger - Norvegia. Iperborea. ISSN 9788870915686. p. 139–149.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2019). Henrik Ibsen. Verso una Weltliteratur norvegese. In D'Amico, Giuliano & Culeddu, Sara (Ed.), Letteratura norvegese. Associazione Giuseppe Acerbi. ISSN 9788894216516. p. 59–61.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2019). Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, il Nobel dimenticato. In D'Amico, Giuliano & Culeddu, Sara (Ed.), Letteratura norvegese. Associazione Giuseppe Acerbi. ISSN 9788894216516. p. 55–58.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2019). Storia della letteratura norvegese dalle origini al 1800. In Ciaravolo, Massimo (Eds.), Storia delle letterature scandinave dalle origini a oggi. Iperborea. ISSN 9788870915631.
  • Langford, Malcolm; Aguilar-Støen, Mariel; Carlson, Andreas; Gross, Lena & D'Amico, Giuliano (2019). Fra internasjonalisering til mangfold : . Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X. 36(1), p. 85–93. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3053-2019-01-09.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2019). Preface. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 18(2). doi: 10.1080/15021866.2018.1557427.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2018). Preface. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 18(1), p. 1–2. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2018.1504407.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2018). Études Ibséniennes 2.0 Entre littérature, performance et humanités numériques.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2018). Ibsen in Italy: the first Italian editions.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2018). Nuove prospettive su Ibsen, tra distant reading e digital humanities.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2018). Ibsens verk ­ – en snikinnføring i naturvitenskapen?
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2018). Etterord, Jeg er mennesket. Dikt i naturlig utvalg. Cappelen Damm AS. ISSN 9788202598877. p. 192–198.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2018). «Det är sen länge rivet vårt sociala kontrakt» - Håkan Sandells politiske poesi.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2018). Premio Acerbi alla letteratura norvegese.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2018). Postfazione. In Pasi, Marco (Eds.), Fernando Pessoa - Aleister Crowley: La bocca dell'inferno. Federico Tozzi Editore. ISSN 978-88-9872808-4. p. 321–334.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano & Chams, Camilla (2018). En antimoderne poet. Mellom Tidsskrift for omsett litteratur. ISSN 2387-4880. p. 99–103.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2018). Ibsen, Bjørnson og den italienske frigjøringskampen.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2018). Un piemontese in Svezia - conversazione con Renzo Pavese. Rivista Savej.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2018). Fra black metal til Ibsen - hvorfor en italiensk 17-åring fant på å studere norsk litteratur.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2018). Isabelle M. Pagan and The Fantasy of Peer Gynt. Ibsen and Theosophy in Great Britain.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2018). Lyset kommer fra sør? Ibsen og Hamsun i italiensk oversettelse.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano & Langford, Malcolm (2018). Mindre tabloid - mer handling. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2018). En fjerdedel av forskerne i Norge er utlendinger. [Internet]. Khrono.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano & Langford, Malcolm (2018). Hvor mange internasjonale forskere tåler Norge? Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2017). Den internasjonale Ibsen. Mellom Tidsskrift for omsett litteratur. ISSN 2387-4880. p. 110–112.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2017). The Fantasy of Peer Gynt: Ibsen and Theosophy in Great Britain.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2017). Isabelle M. Pagan and the Fantasy of Peer Gynt. Ibsen and Theosophy in Scotland.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2017). Alterità e gnosticismo nella poesia di Håkan Sandell.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2017). “The sun rises on the fjords” – exoticism and domestication in early Italian Ibsen translations.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano (2017). Internazionalizzazione delle università e forza lavoro straniera nel dibattito pubblico in Norvegia.

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