Associate Professor • Honors Residential Academic Program Faculty Director
Theatre & Dance

Education

Ph.D., Drama and the Humanities, Stanford University
B.A., Philosophy and English Literature, Swarthmore College

Regional and Thematic Interests

Transnational/Comparative
Literature and the Arts

Profile

Oliver Gerland, PhD in Drama and Humanities, Stanford University; BA in Philosophy and English Literature, Swarthmore College. Former Chair of the Theatre and Dance Department (1999-2003). CU faculty member since 1992. Research interests include Scandinavian modern drama (Ibsen and Strindberg) and dramatic theory and criticism.

Selected Publications

A Freudian Poetics for Ibsen’s Theatre: Repetition, Recollection and Paradox. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1999.