Associate Professor; Graduate Program Coordinator
RAI 305 P
Fields of Interest
Education
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, 2012
M.A., Performance Studies, New York University, 2003
B.A., Norwegian, University of Washington, 2002
B.A., English, University of Washington, 2002
Biography
Curriculum Vitae
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Selected Research
- Gunn, Olivia Noble. "All the Vulnerable Boys: Child-Saving Conjured in Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf and Hiro Kanagawa's Indian Arm." Modern Drama, vol. 68 no. 2, 2025, p. 205-229. Project MUSE.
- Gunn, Olivia Noble. “Knausgård’s Scandalous ‘Labia’: Shame, Re-Enchantment, and the Pursuit of a More Imaginative Sex Education.” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 96, no. 3, 2024, pp. 92–116.
- Olivia Noble Gunn. “Siss/Unn/ingen: The Queer Revenant in Is-slottet.” Edda, vol. 110, no. 2, 2023, pp. 90–102, https://doi.org/10.18261/edda.110.2.3.
- Gunn, Olivia N. “Leaving the Theatre of Suffering: Two Endings—and a Color-Conscious Future?—for Hedda Gabler.” Theatre Journal (Washington, D.C.), vol. 73, no. 2, 2021, pp. 189–207.
- Gunn, Olivia Noble. “Growing Up: Knausgård on Proust, Boyishness, and (Straight) Time.” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 92, no. 3, 2020, pp. 325–347.
- Gunn, Olivia Noble. Empty Nurseries, Queer Occupants: Reproduction and the Future in Ibsen's Late Plays. Routledge, 2020.
- “Baby Factory: Romance and Reproduction in Norway’s First Sound Film.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 6.3 (Fall 2016)
- “Other Mothers and the Limits of Bohemia in Alberte og friheten and Bare Alberte.” Scandinavian Studies 88:4 (Winter 2016)
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