Thor Holt

Associate Professor - Centre for Ibsen Studies
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Mobile phone +47 96676402
Room HW 231
Available hours Tuesday 1–3 pm
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Visiting address Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 Henrik Wergelands hus 0313 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1166 Blindern 0317 Oslo

Academic interests

Ibsen, Nordic Literature, Film History, Adaptation Studies, German Cultural History, Modern Disaster Discourses

My research is focused on the intersections between aesthetics and politics, between literature, film, and different sociopolitical contexts. On the one hand, it draws on literature-, film-, and adaptation theory, on the other hand, it employs literature-, film-, and theatre history, as well as social philosophy, critique of ideology, and disaster discourses.

Courses taught

IBS2210/4210 – Ibsen i praksis

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

NOR2415 – Contemporary Scandinavian Film

Appointments and other projects

Teaching Coordinator at the Centre for Ibsen Studies (2024–)

Co-editor of Ibsen Studies (2019–)

Guest Editor of Vagant, no. 3–4, 2021 (special issue on Siegfried Kracauer)

International experience

Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley, CA (2021–22)

Guest Researcher, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin (2015–16)

Background

PhD in Ibsen Studies and Film, University of Oslo (2020)

MA in Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen (2012)

Publications

  • Holt, Thor (2023). Ibsen Studies and Adaptation. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 23(2), p. 230–249. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2023.2268352. 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
  • Holt, Thor (2022). Trauma, Aesthetic Treatment, and Intermediality: Das Haus der Lüge (1926). 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. 189–221. Full text in Research Archive
  • Rees, Ellen & Holt, Thor (2022). Entanglements of Adaptation, Allegory, and Reception: Jaws and An Enemy of the People. Journal of Aesthetics and Culture. ISSN 2000-4214. 14(1). doi: 10.1080/20004214.2021.2022864. Full text in Research Archive
  • Holt, Thor (2020). Stories of “Infidelity”: Nazi Ibsen Adaptations and the Norwegian Press. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 20(2). doi: 10.1080/15021866.2020.1825103. Full text in Research Archive
  • Holt, Thor (2015). Ibsen’s Firebrand: The Dead Child and Theodicy in Brand. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 15(1), p. 66–98. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2015.1087716.

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  • Holt, Thor (2022). Preface. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 22(2), p. 105–106. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2022.2125211.
  • Holt, Thor (2022). Repurposing of Music in Early Sound Film: Grieg in Fritz Lang’s M (1931).
  • Holt, Thor (2021). Beyond Adaptation: Ibsen in Weimar Cinema.
  • Holt, Thor (2021). På kino med Kracauer. Vagant. ISSN 0802-0736. p. 372–382.
  • Holt, Thor (2021). Skrotplukkeren. Vagant. ISSN 0802-0736. p. 354–357.
  • Holt, Thor; Lindholm, Audun & Leivestad, Eirik Høyer (2021). Siegfried Kracauer. Det populære er politisk. Vagant. ISSN 0802-0736. p. 292–295.
  • Holt, Thor (2020). From Generic Labels to Reception Processes: Jaws (1975) as an Adaptation of An Enemy of the People (1882).
  • Holt, Thor (2020). Preface. Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 20(1), p. 1–2. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2020.1757304.
  • D'Amico, Giuliano; Muniz, Iris & Holt, Thor (2020). Forsnakk.
  • Holt, Thor; Rentschler, Eric & Bolt Rasmussen, Mikkel (2020). Doctoral Defense: Ibsen through the Camera Lens in the Third Reich . Ibsen Studies. ISSN 1502-1866. 20(2), p. 220–248. doi: 10.1080/15021866.2020.1834737.
  • Holt, Thor (2016). Ølkjellermennesket. Om Dietrich Eckart. Vagant. ISSN 0802-0736. p. 51–57.
  • Holt, Thor (2020). Far from Home: Ibsen through the Camera Lens in the Third Reich. 07 Gruppen.

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Projects

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