Contributors
- Contributors
MICHAEL GOLDMAN is Professor of English Emeritus at Princeton University. He has published two volumes of poetry and several books of dramatic criticism, including Ibsen: The Dramaturgy of Fear, which won the George Jean Nathan Award for dramatic criticism. An earlier book, The Actor’s Freedom: Toward a Theory of Drama, also won the Nathan award, and his Shakespeare and the Energies of Drama was nominated for a National Book Award. He is also the author of Acting and Action in Shakespearean Tragedy; his most recent book is On Drama: Boundaries of Genre, Borders of Self.
MERRILL KAPLAN is Assistant Professor of English and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University, with specializations in Folklore and Scandinavian Studies. She has published articles on Old Norse–Icelandic literature, on Hedda and Hjørdis of Hedda Gabler and The Vikings at Helgeland, and on the relationship between Ibsen’s self-conscious dramatic realism and his collection and publication of Norwegian folklore.
ATLE KITTANG is Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Bergen (Norway). He has published articles and books on issues in literary theory and on French and Norwegian literature from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (e.g., on Paul Eluard, Arthur Rimbaud, Honoré de Balzac, Knut Hamsun). His latest book-length publication is Ibsens heroisme (2002).
TORIL MOI is James B. Duke Professor of Literature, Romance Studies and Theater Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Sexual/Textual Politics (1985; new ed. 2002), Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an [End Page 416] Intellectual Woman (1994), What Is a Woman? and Other Essays (1999), and Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy (2006).
MARK B. SANDBERG is Associate Professor of Scandinavian and Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research fields include Scandinaviian literature, drama, and film, with particular emphasis on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century visual culture. His book Living Pictures, Missing Persons: Mannequins, Museums, and Modernity was published by Princeton University Press in 2003.
ANNE-MARIE STANTON-IFE read Scandinavian Studies at the University of Cambridge and Comparative Literature at the University of London, where she completed her doctorate. She has published several articles on Ibsen, as well as translations of Modern Greek drama and fiction.
JOAN TEMPLETON is the author of Ibsen’s Women (Cambridge University Press), a critically acclaimed study of the women in Ibsen’s life and work, the forthcoming Munch’s Ibsen: A Painter’s Visions of a Playwright (University of Washington Press), and many articles on Ibsen and other modern dramatists (PMLA, Scandinavian Studies, Modern Drama, and elsewhere). She has been an NEH Scholar, a two-time Fulbright Scholar, and a two-time American-Scandinavian Fellow. She is President of the Ibsen Society of America, a member of the International Ibsen Committee, and editor of Ibsen News and Comment.
THOMAS F. VAN LAAN is a Rutgers University Professor Emeritus in English. He is the author of The Idiom of Drama, Role-Playing in Shakespeare, and a volume containing translations of and extensive introductions to Ibsen’s first two plays, Catiline and The Burial Mound. He has also published numerous articles on modern drama, especially Ibsen. [End Page 417]
