Delilah Bermudez Brataas
About
I am Associate Professor of English at NTNU (ILU) since August 2010 where I teach literature and culture in the Faculty of Education’s English Section. My research considers aspects of gender in utopia from its earliest expressions in early modern literature to its contemporary adaptations in science fiction and fantasy, particularly in graphic novels and film. I am currently researching on the work of Cavendish and Shakespeare, and other early modern texts, and the use of Shakespeare in the Second Language Classroom.
I am an active member and secretary of the International Margaret Cavendish Society, founding member and secretary of NorSS, the Nordic Shakespeare Society, and a member of ESRA, The European Shakespeare Research Association
Current Research Overview
My article "‘Let this Deadly Draught purge clean my Soul from Sin’: Poisons and Remedies in Margaret Cavendish's Drama" appeared in Poison on the Early Modern English Stage: Plants, Paints and Potions (Manchester University Press 2023)
My article "Echoes and Enclosures, or Utopia in Love’s Labour’s Lost" appeared in Shakespeare/Nature Contemporary Readings in the Human and Nonhuman (Bloomsbury Academic: The Arden Shakespeare 2023)
My article, "Gods and Monsters: Authorial Creation in Gaiman's Sandman and McCreery's Kill Shakespeare" appeared in The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics in February 2020.
My article "The Anguish of Youth in FIlm Adapatations of Romeo and Juliet" is forthcoming in Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge University Press)
Research Groups and Projects:
I am the lead researcher in the Shakespeare in Education Research Group and in the research project Drama in Language Learning.
Current Teaching and Supervision
I teach literature and culture in several courses and am the MA coordinator for the MGLU 1-7 program.
- LVUT8081/8082 KfK English 2 (Literature and Culture)
- MGLU3103 English 2 (Literature and Culture)
- MGLU4106: English Literature in the Classroom: Theoretical and Didactic Perspectiveds (1-7) MA Seminar
- MGLU5206: Methodology in English Didactics
- MGLU5207: MA in English
Research
My research considers aspects of gender in utopia from its earliest expressions in early modern literature to its contemporary adaptations in science fiction and fantasy, particularly in graphic novels and film. I am currently researching on the work of Cavendish and Shakespeare, and other early modern texts, and the use of Shakespeare in the Second Language Classroom.
I am an active member and secretary of the International Margaret Cavendish Society, founding member and secretary of NorSS, the Nordic Shakespeare Society, and a member of ESRA, The European Shakespeare Research Association
Current Research Overview
My article "‘Let this Deadly Draught purge clean my Soul from Sin’: Poisons and Remedies in Margaret Cavendish's Drama" is in Poison on the Early Modern English Stage: Plants, Paints and Potions (Manchester University Press 2023)
My article "Echoes and Enclosures, or Utopia in Love’s Labour’s Lost" is in Shakespeare/Nature Contemporary Readings in the Human and Nonhuman (Bloomsbury Academic: The Arden Shakespeare 2023)
My article, "Gods and Monsters: Authorial Creation in Gaiman's Sandman and McCreery's Kill Shakespeare" appeared in The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics in February 2020.
My article "The Anguish of Youth in FIlm Adapatations of Romeo and Juliet" is forthcoming in Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge University Press)
Publications
2023
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Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2023)
Book Review: A Companion to the Cavendishes. Edited by Lisa Hopkins and Tom Rutter. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 438 pp.
$149.00. ISBN 9781641891776.
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Book review
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Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2023)
Echoes and Enclosures, or Utopia in Love’s Labour’s Lost.
Bloomsbury Academic
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2023)
'Let this Deadly Draught purge clean my Soul from Sin': Poisons and Remedies in Margaret Cavendish's Drama.
Manchester University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2023)
The Anguish of Youth in Film Adaptations of Romeo and Juliet.
Cambridge University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2022
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Brataas, Delilah Bermudez;
Cieślak, Magdalena;
Kowalcze-Pawlik, Anna.
(2022)
“With Such Perfection:” Imagining Utopia through Shakespeare.
Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance
Academic article
2021
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Brataas, Delilah Anne Bermudez.
(2021)
Bathsua Makin.
Palgrave Macmillan
Encyclopedia article
2020
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Brataas, Delilah Anne Bermudez.
(2020)
Review: Twelfth Night, directed by Simon Godwin, The National Theatre, Olivier Theatre, London, UK, 15
February–13 May 2017. Filmed for NT Live (screen director: Robin Lough), 2017. Accessed via
NT Live in Trondheim, Norway, 23 April 2020.
Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies
Book review
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Brataas, Delilah Anne B.
(2020)
Gods and Monsters: Authorial Creation in Gaiman’s Sandman and McCreery and Del Col’s Kill Shakespeare.
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
Academic article
2019
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Brataas, Delilah Anne B.
(2019)
The blurring of genus, genre, and gender in Margaret Cavendish’s utopias.
Sederi: Journal of the Spanish Society for English Renaissance Studies
Academic article
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Brataas, Delilah Anne B.
(2019)
“Peculiar Circles”: The Fluid Utopia at the Northern Pole in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World .
Utopian Studies
Academic article
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Brataas, Delilah Anne B.
(2019)
"Poems and Fancies with The Animal Parliament" Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Ed. Brandie R Siegfried" Review.
Renaissance Quarterly
Book review
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Brataas, Delilah Anne Bermudez.
(2019)
Re-posing the Question: Shakespeare in/and Education.
Early Modern Culture Online (EMCO)
Academic article
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Brataas, Delilah Anne Bermudez.
(2019)
Teaching Shakespeare through Collaborative Writing and Performance in a Norwegian Primary School ESL Classroom: An Interview with Ellen Marie Kvaale.
Early Modern Culture Online (EMCO)
Interview Journal
2018
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Brataas, Delilah Anne B.
(2018)
The Shadow’s Shadow,or Gendered Ambition in Asta Nielsen’s
1921 Hamlet.
Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies
Academic article
2017
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Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2017)
The Alternating Utopic Revisions of The Tempest on Film.
Cambridge University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2015
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Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2015)
“Shakespeare’s Presence and Cavendish’s Absence in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.”.
Shakespeare
Academic literature review
2014
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Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2014)
A Utopia of Words: Doctor Who, Shakespeare, and the Gendering of Utopia.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2012
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Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2012)
Shakespeare and Cavendish: Engendering the Early Modern English Utopia.
ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Publishers, LLC
Doctoral dissertation
2006
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Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2006)
Becoming Utopia in Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis Series.
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
Academic article
Journal publications
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Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2023)
Book Review: A Companion to the Cavendishes. Edited by Lisa Hopkins and Tom Rutter. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 438 pp.
$149.00. ISBN 9781641891776.
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Book review
-
Brataas, Delilah Bermudez;
Cieślak, Magdalena;
Kowalcze-Pawlik, Anna.
(2022)
“With Such Perfection:” Imagining Utopia through Shakespeare.
Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance
Academic article
-
Brataas, Delilah Anne Bermudez.
(2020)
Review: Twelfth Night, directed by Simon Godwin, The National Theatre, Olivier Theatre, London, UK, 15
February–13 May 2017. Filmed for NT Live (screen director: Robin Lough), 2017. Accessed via
NT Live in Trondheim, Norway, 23 April 2020.
Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies
Book review
-
Brataas, Delilah Anne B.
(2020)
Gods and Monsters: Authorial Creation in Gaiman’s Sandman and McCreery and Del Col’s Kill Shakespeare.
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
Academic article
-
Brataas, Delilah Anne B.
(2019)
The blurring of genus, genre, and gender in Margaret Cavendish’s utopias.
Sederi: Journal of the Spanish Society for English Renaissance Studies
Academic article
-
Brataas, Delilah Anne B.
(2019)
“Peculiar Circles”: The Fluid Utopia at the Northern Pole in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World .
Utopian Studies
Academic article
-
Brataas, Delilah Anne B.
(2019)
"Poems and Fancies with The Animal Parliament" Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Ed. Brandie R Siegfried" Review.
Renaissance Quarterly
Book review
-
Brataas, Delilah Anne Bermudez.
(2019)
Re-posing the Question: Shakespeare in/and Education.
Early Modern Culture Online (EMCO)
Academic article
-
Brataas, Delilah Anne Bermudez.
(2019)
Teaching Shakespeare through Collaborative Writing and Performance in a Norwegian Primary School ESL Classroom: An Interview with Ellen Marie Kvaale.
Early Modern Culture Online (EMCO)
Interview Journal
-
Brataas, Delilah Anne B.
(2018)
The Shadow’s Shadow,or Gendered Ambition in Asta Nielsen’s
1921 Hamlet.
Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies
Academic article
-
Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2015)
“Shakespeare’s Presence and Cavendish’s Absence in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.”.
Shakespeare
Academic literature review
-
Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2006)
Becoming Utopia in Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis Series.
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
Academic article
Part of book/report
-
Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2023)
Echoes and Enclosures, or Utopia in Love’s Labour’s Lost.
Bloomsbury Academic
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2023)
'Let this Deadly Draught purge clean my Soul from Sin': Poisons and Remedies in Margaret Cavendish's Drama.
Manchester University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2023)
The Anguish of Youth in Film Adaptations of Romeo and Juliet.
Cambridge University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Brataas, Delilah Anne Bermudez.
(2021)
Bathsua Makin.
Palgrave Macmillan
Encyclopedia article
-
Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2017)
The Alternating Utopic Revisions of The Tempest on Film.
Cambridge University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2014)
A Utopia of Words: Doctor Who, Shakespeare, and the Gendering of Utopia.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Report
-
Brataas, Delilah Bermudez.
(2012)
Shakespeare and Cavendish: Engendering the Early Modern English Utopia.
ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Publishers, LLC
Doctoral dissertation
Teaching
Courses
Media
2023
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Academic lectureBrataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2023) The Glass of Uncreated Light: Margaret Cavendish Considers the Nature and Society of Angels. Renaissance Society of America Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference , San Juan 2023-03-09 - 2023-03-11
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Academic lectureBrataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2023) Either Vixen or Virago, Either Gertrude or Gudrún: “the Violence of either Grief or Joy” in Film Portrayals of Queen Gertrude. Pázmány Péter Catholic University European Shakespeare Research Association Conference , Budapest 2023-07-06 - 2023-07-09
2019
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Academic lectureBrataas, Delilah Anne Bermudez. (2019) ‘Something Rich and Strange’: Remapping Shakespeare’s Utopia. European Shakespeare Research Association European Shakespeare Research Association 2019 , Rome 2019-07-09 - 2019-07-12
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Academic lectureBrataas, Delilah Anne Bermudez. (2019) Utopia as Byproduct: The Affinity of Anthropogenic Creation in Marge Piercy’s He, She, and It. Utopian Studies Society 20th Conference of the Utopian Studies Society , Prato 2019-07-01 - 2019-07-05
2018
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LectureBrataas, Delilah Anne B. (2018) “Hymen’s Markets: Margaret Cavendish’s Consideration of Marriage in Sociable Letters”. Renaissance Society of America Renaissance Society of America , New Orleans 2018-03-21 - 2018-03-26
2017
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LectureBrataas, Delilah Anne B. (2017) The Dying of the Light: The 'Experience' of Representing Wales and Welsh in Doctor Who. Nasjonalt fagråd for engelsk Nasjonalt fagråd for engelsks fagrådmøte 2017 , Cardiff 2017-11-30 - 2017-11-30
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Academic lectureBrataas, Delilah Anne B. (2017) "Peculiar Circles: The Fluid Utopia at the Northern Pole in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World". Nordic Literature Association NorLit 2017 , Turku 2017-06-08 - 2017-06-13
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Academic lectureBrataas, Delilah Anne B. (2017) "Echoes and Enclosures: Utopia in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost". ESRA, European Shakespeare Research Association ESRA, European Shakespeare Research Assocation 2017 , Gdansk 2017-07-26 - 2017-08-01
2016
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LectureBrataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2016) Shakespeare’s Critics: Utopic Time in Cavendish, Dickinson and Woolf. British Shakespeare Association British Shakespeare Association Conference , Hull, UK 2016-09-08 - 2016-09-11
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LectureBrataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2016) Roundtable: Shakespeare in the Second Language Classroom. European Society for the Study of English 2016 European Society for the Study of English 2016 , NUI Galway 2016-08-22 - 2016-08-28
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LectureBrataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2016) Gods and Monsters: Shakespeare in Gaiman’s Sandman and McCreery and Del Col’s Kill Shakespeare. Teeside University Elsinore Conference 2016 , Helsingor 2016-04-22 - 2016-04-24
2015
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LectureBrataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2015) Reading and Misreading in Margaret Cavendish's Sociable Letters. Renaissance Society of America Renaissance Society of America 2015 , Berlin 2015-03-26 - 2015-03-28
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LectureBrataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2015) The Blurring of Genus, Genre, and Gender in Margaret Cavendish’s Sociable Letters. Margaret Cavendish Society 11th International Margaret Cavendish Society Conference , Centre for Visual Arts and Research, Nicosia 2015-06-16 - 2015-06-18
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LectureBrataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2015) A Shadow’s Shadow: The Chiaroscuro of Gendered Ambition in Svend Gade’s 1921 Hamlet. Kingston Shakespeare Seminar Shakespeare in Scandinavia , Kingston Upon Thames 2015-10-08 - 2015-10-11
2014
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Academic lectureBrataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2014) “The Extraordinary Presence of Shakespeare and his Characters in Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Presence.”. Société Française Shakespeare Shakespeare450: Société Française Shakespeare , Paris 2014-04-21 - 2014-04-27
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Academic lectureBrataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2014) “The Imperfect Lens: The Self in Sociable Letters, The Blazing World, and Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.”. Renaissance Society of America Renaissance Society of America , New York City 2014-03-27 - 2014-03-30
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Academic lectureBrataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2014) “‘Most Majestic’ or ‘Baseless Fabric’: The Alternating Utopic (re)Visions of The Tempest”. Société Française Shakespeare Shakespeare450: Société Française Shakespeare , Paris 2014-04-21 - 2014-04-27
2013
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Academic lectureBrataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2013) "For Want of Well Reading": Reading and Misreading in Margaret Cavendish's Sociable Letters. Northeast Modern Language Assocation , Boston 2013-04-21 - 2013-04-24
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Academic lectureBrataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2013) Margaret Cavendish's Utopian Desire: Choice as Dissent through Progress and Form. International Margaret Cavendish Society , Sundance, Utah 2013-07-12 - 2013-07-14
2012
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Academic lectureBrataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2012) The Doctor and the Bard: Doctor Who, Shakespeare, and Utopia. Society for Utopian Studies 37th Annual Society for Utopian Studies Conference , Toronto, ON 2012-10-04 - 2012-10-07