Thor Holt

Senior Lecturer - Centre for Ibsen Studies

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Email thor.holt@iln.uio.no

Mobile phone +47 96676402

Room 231 HW

Available hours Wednesday 1–3pm

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Visiting address Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 Henrik Wergelands hus 0313 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1166 Blindern 0317 Oslo

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Academic interests

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

My research is mainly focused on the intersections between aesthetics and politics, between literature, film, and different socio-political contexts.

NOR1403 – Norwegian World Literature

NOR2415 – Contemporary Scandinavian Cinema

Co-editor of Ibsen Studies (2019–)

Guest editor of Vagant, no. 3–4, 2021, special issue on Siegfried Kracauer

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

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

PhD in Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo (2015–)

Teacher of Comparative Literature, University of Tromsø (2014)

MA in Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen (2012)

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.

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. Oslo 07-Media.

Published Feb. 11, 2015 11:43 AM - Last modified Aug. 21, 2022 3:50 PM