This talk, by NYU’s Alisa Zhulina, will introduce their new project Love under Capitalism and its relation to their first book on the theater of capital. Hedda Gabler is one of Ibsen’s fiercest forays into exploring freedom and its material and social conditions. Written during the rise of free love and its discontents, the play asks controversial questions about the relationship between capitalism and sexual liberation. Yet some of Hedda Gabler’s most inflammatory content has been lost in mistranslations or hidden in Ibsen’s original notes.

Questions or looking to join remotely? Email eli melgar: jmelgar [at] stanford .edu 

ABOUT ALISA ZHULINA

Alisa Zhulina is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies in the Department of Drama at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She is the author of Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life (Northwestern University Press, 2024). Her articles and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in MLN, Modern Drama, Modernism/modernity, Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Performance Research, and several edited volumes.

[image: Edvard Munch’s drawing of Hedda Gabler (1906-1907). Munch Museum. Oslo, Norway. ]