Liyang Xia

Associate Professor
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Postal address Henrik Wergelands hus Room 227

Academic interests

  • Reception history of Ibsen in China
  • Theatre studies
  • Digital Humanities
  • Chinese traditional and modern theatre
  • China Studies
  • Gender studies
  • Global influences of theatre cultures

Research projects

Visualising Lost Theatres -- Virtual Praxis and the Recovery of Performance Spaces

VR model of Ibsen's Komediehus

Ibsen Between Cultures

Ibsen in Translation

Courses taught

IBS4000 Research Ethics, Information Resources and Advanced Academic Writing for Ibsen Studies

IBS4001 – Theoretical, Methodological, and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ibsen Studies

IBS4210 – Ibsen i praksis

IBS4102 – Henrik Ibsen’s oeuvre in the perspective of its reception history

IBS4205 -- New Perspectives in Ibsen Studies

IBS4204 – Ibsen in Performance

IBS4105 -- Ibsen Between Cultures

IBS4390 – Master's Thesis in Ibsen Studies

Background

Program co-ordinator (fagkoordinator), Centre for Ibsen Studies, UiO, 2021-

Acting Head, Centre for Ibsen Studies, UiO, 2019-2020

Associate Professor, Centre for Ibsen Studies, UiO, 2016-

Teaching assistant, University of Oslo, 2012-2013

PhD in Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo, 2009-2012

 

Tags: Ibsen, China, Theatre, Gender Studies, Reception Studies, Translation Studies, Digital Humanities

Publications

Joanne Tompkins, Jonathan Bollen, Julie Holledge, and Liyang Xia (2022). Visualising Lost Theatres: Virtual Praxis and the Recovery of Performance Spaces. Cambridge University Press. www.cambridge.org/9781108476751

Xia, Liyang (2021). The Silent Noras: Women of the First Chinese Performance of A Doll's House. Asian Theater Journal.  ISSN 0742-5457. . doi: 10.1353/atj.2021.0011

Xia, Liyang (2018). A myth that glorifies: Rethinking Ibsen’s early reception in China.  Ibsen Studies.  ISSN 1502-1866. 18(2), s 141- 168 . doi: 10.1080/15021866.2018.1550868

Xia, Liyang (2016). Heart Higher than the Sky: Reinventing Chinese Femininity through Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, In Frode Helland & Julie Holledge (ed.),  Ibsen Between Cultures.  Novus Forlag.  ISBN 9788270998630.  5.  s 113 - 142

  • Xia, Liyang & Tompkins, Joanne (2022). Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cantonese Opera Performances in the Victorian Goldfields. In Bush-Bailey, Gilli & Flaherty, Kate (Ed.), Touring Performance And Global Exchange 1850-1960: Making Tracks. Routledge. ISSN 9780367519506. p. 31–47. doi: 10.4324/9781003055860-2.
  • Xia, Liyang (2021). The Silent Noras: Women of the First Chinese Performance of A Doll's House. Asian Theater Journal. ISSN 0742-5457. 38(1), p. 218–244. doi: 10.1353/atj.2021.0011. Full text in Research Archive
  • Xia, Liyang (2018). A myth that glorifies: Rethinking Ibsen’s early reception in China. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 18(2), p. 141–168. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2018.1550868. Full text in Research Archive
  • Xia, Liyang (2016). Heart Higher than the Sky: Reinventing Chinese Fimininity through Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. In Helland, Frode & Holledge, Julie (Ed.), Ibsen Between Cultures. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270998630. p. 113–142.
  • Xia, Liyang (2007). Power Struggle in Hedda Gabler - A Close Reading of the Conversations between Hedda, Brack and Løvborg. In Helland, Frode; Mollerin, Kaja*; Nygaard, Jon & Sæther, Astrid (Ed.), The Living Ibsen: Proceedings - The 11th International Ibsen Conference, 21 - 27 August 2006. Unipub forlag. ISSN 978-82-91540-10-8. p. 153–158.

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  • Tompkins, Joanne; Holledge, Julie; Bollen, Jonathan & Xia, Liyang (2022). Visualising Lost Theatres: Virtual Praxis and the Recovery of Performance Spaces. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108476751. 300 p.

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  • Haaland, Agnete G.; Xia, Liyang & Skuggevik, Erik (2023). Panelsamtale under Performance and Reception of Professedly Authoritative Texts.
  • Xia, Liyang (2022). Preface. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 22(1), p. 1–2. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2022.2063976.
  • Xia, Liyang (2013). Heart Higher than the Sky - Reinventing Chinese Femininity through Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. 07 Gruppen.

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