[1] She became employed at the Royal Library, Denmark,[2] and got an master's degree in the aesthetics and theatre with a dissertation called Strindberg and Intima Teatern in 1965.
Kvam and a group of students met the recently released Nigeran playwright Wole Soyinka for a film project in the late 1970s.
[2] She co-edited and co-contributed to Dansk Teaterhistorie, a two-volume edition published between 1992 and 1993,[1][3] and was an employee working on the fifth to seventh volumes of Gyldendals World Literary History.
[1] She was a founder member of the Association for Nordic Theatre Scholars (Nordiske Teaterforskere) in 1998 and contributed to the Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon as a subject consultant from 2000 to 2001.
Kvam authored an essay on research about The Federal Theatre under the New Deal which was published in the daily newspaper Dagbladet Information in 2013.
[2] Karen Vedel and Stig Jarl noted her "teaching was largely tied to her research and she involved her students not only in working with source material, but also in collecting and generating data.