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Delilah Bermudez Brataas

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Delilah Bermudez Brataas

Associate Professor in English Literature
Department of Teacher Education
Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences

delilah.brataas@ntnu.no
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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.

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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

Competencies

  • 16th century
  • Adaptation
  • Cultural Studies
  • English Renaissance
  • Film and TV
  • Gender and literature
  • Graphic novels
  • Margaret Cavendish
  • Oral English
  • Science fiction
  • Teaching English as a Foreign Language
  • Utopias and dystopias in literature
  • William Shakespeare

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)

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  • ShINE: Shakespeare in Education Research Group
  • ShINE: Shakespeare i utdanning

Publications

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2023

  • 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. (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

2022

  • 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

  • Brataas, Delilah Anne Bermudez. (2021) Bathsua Makin. Palgrave Macmillan
    Encyclopedia article

2020

  • 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

2019

  • 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

2018

  • 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

  • Brataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2017) The Alternating Utopic Revisions of The Tempest on Film. Cambridge University Press
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2015

  • Brataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2015) “Shakespeare’s Presence and Cavendish’s Absence in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.”. Shakespeare
    Academic literature review

2014

  • 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

  • Brataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2012) Shakespeare and Cavendish: Engendering the Early Modern English Utopia. ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Publishers, LLC
    Doctoral dissertation

2006

  • Brataas, Delilah Bermudez. (2006) Becoming Utopia in Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis Series. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • 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

  • MGLU4506 - Literature from the English-speaking World in the Classroom (5-10): Theoretical and Didactical Perspectives
  • LVUT8082 - English 2 (1-7) module 2
  • MGLU5207 - Master Thesis in English
  • DID3303 - Literature, text and culture in the classroom
  • LVUT8081 - English 2 (1-7) module 1

Media

2023

  • Academic lecture
    Brataas, 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
  • Academic lecture
    Brataas, 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

  • Academic lecture
    Brataas, 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
  • Academic lecture
    Brataas, 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

  • Lecture
    Brataas, 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

  • Lecture
    Brataas, 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
  • Academic lecture
    Brataas, 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
  • Academic lecture
    Brataas, 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

  • Lecture
    Brataas, 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
  • Lecture
    Brataas, 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
  • Lecture
    Brataas, 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

  • Lecture
    Brataas, 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
  • Lecture
    Brataas, 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
  • Lecture
    Brataas, 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

  • Academic lecture
    Brataas, 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
  • Academic lecture
    Brataas, 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
  • Academic lecture
    Brataas, 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

  • Academic lecture
    Brataas, 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
  • Academic lecture
    Brataas, 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

  • Academic lecture
    Brataas, 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
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