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Orm Øverland

Grad: Ph.D. (Yale) Orm Øverland
Stilling: Professor emeritus
Kontor: Hjemme
Telefon: 55 32 60 98
E-post: Orm.Overland@if.uib.no
Ansatt siden: 1970
   
 

Forskningsfelt:

  • Amerikansk litteratur
  • Amerikansk innvandringshistorie
  • Amerikabrev
  • Norskamerikansk litteratur
 

Prosjekt:

  • Fra Amerika til Norge. En 7-binds utgave av Amerikabrev. I samarbeid med Riksarkivet. Avsluttes 2009.
  • En to-binds amerikansk utgave av Amerikabrev i engelsk oversettelse. I samarbeid med Norwegian-American Historical Association. Avsluttes 2014.
 
Publikasjoner i FRIDA
 

Utvalgte publikasjoner:

BØKER:

  • Wist, Johannes B.: The Rise of Jonas Olsen: A Norwegian Immigrant’s Saga. A Trilogy by Johannes B. Wist. Translated and with an introduction by Orm Øverland. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
  • Janson, Drude Krog: A Saloonkeeper’s Daughter. Translated by Gerald Thorson. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by Orm Øverland. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
  • Øverland, Orm: Fra Amerika til Norge I-V. Oslo: Solum forlag, 1992-2008. (De første 3 bind i samarbeid med Steinar Kjærheim.)
  • Øverland, Orm: Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870-1930. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
  • Øverland, Orm: The Western Home: A Literary History of Norwegian America. Northfield, Minnesota: Norwegian-American Historical Association and Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1996.
  • Øverland, Orm: Johan Schrøder's Travels in Canada 1863. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989.
  • Øverland, Orm: The Making and Meaning of an American Classic: James Fenimore Cooper’s The Prairie. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1973.

ARTIKLER:

  • Øverland, Orm: “Recovering an Unrecognized Novel: Discovering American Literature.” I: Alfred Hornung, ed.: Multicultural America, Heidelberg, Germany: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2007.
  • Øverland, Orm: “The Many Languages of American Literature 1870-1930: Norwegian as an Example.” I: Comparative American Studies: An International Journal 4:3 (2006), 307-326.
  • Øverland, Orm: “Visions of Home: Exiles and Immigrants.” I: Peter I. Rose, ed., The Dispossessed: An Anatomy of Exile, 7-26. Northampton, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.
  • Øverland, Orm: “Becoming White in 1881: A Norwegian Immigrant Acquires an American Identity.” I: Journal of American Ethnic History 23:4 (2004), 132-141.
  • Øverland, Orm: “The Jungle: From Lithuanian Peasant to American Socialist.” I: American Literary Realism 37:1 (Fall 2004), 1-23.
  • Øverland, Orm: “West and Back Again.” I: Scott Donaldson, ed., Jack Kerouac, On the Road: Text and Criticism, 451-464. (The Viking Critical Library), New York and Harmondsworth: The Viking Press and Penguin Books, 1979.
  • Øverland, Orm: “The Action and its Significance: Arthur Miller’s Struggle with Dramatic Form.” I: Modern Drama 17 (March 1975): 1-14.
 

 

 

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