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CURRICULUM VITAE
---------------------------DIANE OATLEY-------------------------------
Hammerstadsgt. 21D, 0363 Oslo, Norway
Cell phone +47 481 44 283
E-mail: dianeoatley@c2i.net / dianeoatley@terra.es
Member of the Norwegian Non-fiction Translators Association (NFFO)
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CID – International Dance Council
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The Norwegian Critics Association
Section for Dance and Section for Literature
EDUCATION
1. University of Maine Farmington, Maine, USA September 1979 –
English Major. December 1981.
2. University of Oslo January 1982 –
May 1990.
Comparative literature major
Minor in Women’s Studies: gender and culture
Cand. Mag / Bachelor of Arts completed in December 1986.
3. Masters of Arts in Comparative Literature –University of Oslo
1987 – 1990.
Women writers from the Scandinavian and Anglo-American traditions.
French feminist theory, expressions of the body in poetic language.
Thesis: “Gender issues and structures of desire in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood”
Cand. Philol. / Master of Arts degree completed in May 1990.
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1. Freelance translator, English language consultant, copywriter, editor
Editing and translation (Norwegian, Swedish & Danish to English).
Articles, books, reports from all areas of Norwegian industry; marketing and advertising copy;
academic projects within the arts, sociology, and history as well as literary/dramatic works.
Clients include: Ibsen.net., Fagbokforlaget, Findexa Forlag, Index Publishing, ULOBA, Du Store Verden.
Self-employed since 1994.
Published translated titles include:
1. Uræd by Ole M.Ellingsen (Non-fiction; Norwegian maritime history) 2006
2. Effective Grief and Bereavement Support. The Role of Family, Friends, Colleagues, Schools and Support Professionals. By Dr. Kari Dyregrov. Jessica Kingsley Publishing, London. 2007
3. An Exceptional Fellow by Svein Olav Kolset (Non-fiction) 2008
4. Children and Trauma by Atle Dyregrov Jessica Kingsley Publishing, London forthcoming, 2010
2. Assistant Editor/Project Manager 2002 (full-time)
Index Publishing; the Norwegian Trade Council Since 2003 on consulting basis.
3. English language editor/translator Nordic Theatre Review
December 1994 – June 1995
4. Critic/essayist literature and contemporary dance, arts and culture.
A wide range of articles in the Norwegian national newspapers Morgenbladet / Klassekampen, publications in a number of periodicals, magazines and anthologies in Norway and the United States.
On a freelance basis since October 1990 (See list of publications)
5. Lecturer: Contemporary dance 1997- 2000
(specified below)
6. Theater consultant 1997 – 2001 (specified below)
FURTHER STUDIES / RESEARCH / AWARDS
1. French language studies in Caen, France at Université de Caen April, May, June 1991
2. Travel Grant: Conrad Mohrs legat/Norwegian Ministry of Cultural Affairs
French language course at the Sorbonne
Literature Seminars at Université de Paris VIII
with literary theorist/writer Hélène Cixous / Institute des Femmes November 1991
3. Nordic Performing Arts Festival, Aarhus, Denmark April 1995
One of two dance critics from Norway invited to participate in the festival.
4. Privately financed research at Space Tangent/Université de Quebec, Montreal
Research at the above institutions on contemporary dance. July 1995
5. Oslo City Arts Award, 2001, Norwegian Critics Association
Division of Theater, Music and Dance; preliminary study of Flamenco. June 2001
Nerja, Spain.
6. Travel Grant: Norwegian Critics Association for presentation of paper at Congress in Korfu, Greece through the International Dance Council (CID). October 2002
7. Award from the Norsk Tidsskrift for Migrasjonsforskning for “Raqs al-sharqi: the Art of Having What One Has”. Best article for 2006.
Lectures / Panel Discussions
1. Institute for theater studies, University of Oslo, Masters program 1996.
Lecture: Contemporary dance and the feminine body within postmodernism.
2. Oslo College under the direction of the Center for Women’s Studies, 1996.
Lecture: Contemporary dance and the feminine body within postmodernism.
3. Oslo College at seminar under the direction of Dr.polit Gunn Engelsrud, 1997:
Lecture and Oriental dance performance: Movement and writing, practice and theory.
4. Black Box Theater: Head of Panel, Seminar arranged by FUSK (Forum for performing arts exchange). Guest company: Les Ballets a, b, c, de la d. November 1996.
5. Black Box Theater, Oslo, Norway. Seminar on Theater and the body, April 1997:
Lecture: Expressions of the body and the postmodern in contemporary performing arts.
6. School of contemporary dance, Oslo 1998:
Lecture: Expressions of the body in contemporary dance.
7. School of contemporary dance, Oslo 1999:
Lecture: Stagings of the erotic body.
8. Head of panel; Seminar at The Open Theater, Oslo. Dance in the development of the performing arts – sponsored by the French Cultural Center and Norwegian Theater Union. International Dance Day April 29, 2001.
9. Paper: Blissful Thinking: Towards a poetics of Dance.
At 16th International Congress on Dance Research, Corfu. 30 October-03 November 2002.
10. Presentation in lecture series at Senter for Dansekunst in Oslo; October 2004 in collaboration with Kjersti Engebretsen. “Hvorfor er dans viktig?”
11. Research seminar at Dept.of Dance Studies, Univ. of Surrey. Oct. 2004.
Presentation of research on Oriental Dance as Western based practice and poetics of dance.
12. Institute of Medicine, University of Oslo: December 2006
Lecture: Flamenco, pain and materiality: the significance of personal history in dance practice.
13. IMER: University of Bergen: March 2007
Lecture: Raqs al Sharqi or the Art of Having What One Has
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