You may have heard before that Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts had its world premiere at the Aurora Turner Hall in Chicago in May 1882, thanks to the effort of a group of Scandinavian immigrants to the US. What you perhaps haven’t heard of, is David Grimm’s play Ibsen in Chicago, which premiered in Seattle in 2018. The play tries to imagine how this group of immigrants negotiated their identity between Scandinavia, Norway and the United States through this production.
Grimm’s play was printed as a book in 2022, and has recently been acquired by our library. What’s even more exciting, our master student Kayla Amity Hanson has just received a very generous scholarship from the Norway-America Association (NORAM). This scholarship will help her support her studies in Norway and research this play in her MA thesis, which will be focused on Ibsen’s role in the negotiation of Norwegian-American identity.
We’re extremely grateful to NORAM and wish Amity the best of luck with her thesis!
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Please remember that you’re welcome to visit our library to consult this and many other interesting Ibsen books.
- The library is staffed on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday between 09:00–14:45
- Students and staff at UiO have access outside opening hours using their UiO access card and code
- The library is located in Henrik Wergelands hus (room 215 and 213) (UiO)
- For help and guidance, feel free to contact our subject librarian Kristin Kosberg or our library assistant Nicolai Alexander Holck
New book acquisitions
You will find more information about this and other new book acquisitions at New books in the Library - Centre for Ibsen Studies (UiO)