If you would like to have Brian Johnston speak at your school or organization about Ibsen or on other topics in drama, you are encouraged to contact him.

Past Lectures

• 11/2000 "The Three Stages of A Doll House" Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
• 8/2000 "Play It Again: Past Story Replayed as Tragic Plot" [e-text here!] International Ibsen Conference in Bergen, Norway
• 3/2000 Lecture on A Doll House at Stoneybrook University, New York
• 6/99 "Ibsen's Invented Norway": Developing the thesis that Ibsen did not imitate the Norway of his Realist Cycle but invented it as an imaginative space capable of containing his archetype-filled tragic themes. International Ibsen Conference in Beijing, P.R. China
• 6/97 The Intertextuality of The Wild Duck International Ibsen Conference at Gossensass, ITALY
• 8/93 "The Dangerous Seductions of the Past in Ibsen's Early and Late Plays" International Ibsen Conference at Grimstad, Norway,
• 4/92 Panel member at a conference on The Theatre of Eric Bentley, New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida
• 5/91 I organized a conference on Samuel Beckett at Carnegie Mellon University, at which I was a panel speaker
• 7/90 "Modernism in Scandanavian Literature," Paper University of Trondheim, Norway
• 4/89 Participant in a seminar on The Theatre of Eric Bentley, University of Maryland
• 4/89 Organized Seminar on Henrik Ibsen: Carnegie Mellon University
• 4/89 "The Symbol as Reality Seen From Another Perspective in Ibsen's Cycle" The International Ibsen Seminar, Yale University, New Haven
• 7/88 Literary advisor to the Peruvian theatre company, Ensayo, for a production of The Bacchae at The European Festival of Classical Greek Drama at Delphi, Greece
• 6/84 Made Honorary Member of The Ibsen Society of America