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Doxtater, Amanda. Pathos, Performance,
Volition: Melodrama's Legacy in the Work
of Carl Th. Dreyer. Filed 2012. Instructor,
Department of German and Scandinavian,
University of Oregon, beginning Fall 2012.
Krouk,
Dean. Catastrophes of Redemption:
Modernism and Fascism in Norway.
Filed 2011. Assistant Professor, Department
of Norwegian, St. Olaf College, beginning
Fall 2012.
Martin,
Suzanne. Alla människor har sin
berättelse: Interculturalism, Intermediality
and the Trope of Testimony in Novels by
Ekman, Ørstavik and Petersen.
Filed 2010.
Olsen,
Carl. Ekphrasis and the Old Norse
Shield Poem. Filed 2009. Visiting
Assistant Professor, Gustavus Adolphus
College, 2012-13.
Sterling,
Nichole. The Other Side: Icelandic
Identity and Foreigners in the Islendingasogur.
Filed 2008.
Gurley,
David Gantt. Meir Aaron Goldschmidt
and the Poetics of Prose. Filed 2007.
Assistant Professor, Department of German
and Scandinavian, University of Oregon,
beginning Fall 2009.
Willson,
Kendra. Icelandic Nicknames. Filed
2007. Assistant Professor in Residence,
Scandinavian Section, UCLA. Works on Icelandic
nicknames and linguistics in Finnish and
Icelandic.
Larsen,
Hanne Pico. Solvang, the 'Danish Capital
of America': A Little Bit of Denmark,
Disney, or Something Else. Filed
2006. Postdoctoral research fellow in
a Nordic group research project sponsored
by Sweden's National Bank. Group topic:
real and imagined Scandinavian communities
in America.
Kaplan,
Merrill. The Irruption of the Past
in four texts in Flateyjarbók.
Filed 2006.
Associate Professor, Departments of English
and Germanic Languages and Literatures,
Ohio State University. Has published articles
on both medieval and modern Scandinavian
literature. Book: Thou Fearful Guest:
Addressing the Past in Four Tales in Flateyjarbók
(Folklore Fellows Communications 301,
2011).
Oscarson,
Christopher. Landscape and the Entangled
Bird's Eye View: Turn of the 20th Century
Swedish Culture and the Ecological Imaginary.
Filed 2006. Assistant Professor,
Scandinavian Program, Brigham Young University.
Has published on Swedish author Lars Gustafsson
and topics on ecocriticism and Scandinavian
literature.
Coleman,
Michael Durwin. Media(ting) Jenny
Lind: Representing Celebrity in Nineteenth
Century Sweden. Filed 2005. Web-based
entrepeneur in San Francisco, founde of
Miduco web services.
Gaffikin,
Brigid. Fiction and Materiality in
Han Christian Andersen's Travel Writing.
Filed 2005. Currently active in journalism
as Desk Editor of the Bay City News Service
in San Francisco. Several years of experience
in business and political reporting in
the Bay Area. Also active as a freelance
academic editor. Has published on Hans
Christian Andersen.
Wichmann,
Sonia. Truths About Women: Self-Representation
as Fiction and Testimony in the Diaries
of Victoria Benedictsson, Aino Kallas,
and Elin Wagner. Filed 2005. Active
as a published literary translator from
Finnish and Swedish. Has published articles
on Finnish and Swedish literature.
Hafstein,
Valdimar Tr. The Making of Intangible
Cultural Heritage: Tradition and Authenticity,
Community and Humanity. Filed 2004.
Assistant Professor in the Department
of Anthropology and Folklore at the University
of Iceland and a fellow in the International
Center for Advanced Studies at New York
University. He served as Visiting Assistant
Professor in Folklore in spring 2008 at
UC Berkeley. Author of articles on Old
Norse and folklore as well as biotech
and folklore.
Lunde,
Arne. Nordic Exposures: Scandinavian
Whiteness and Ethnic Assimilation in Classical
Hollywood Cinema. Filed 2003. Postdoctoral
fellow, UC Berkeley, 2003-2004; Lecturer,
Department of German, Dutch, and Scandinavian,
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2004-2007;
Associate Professor, Scandinavian Section,
UCLA, 2007-present. Has published on Scandinavian
and American film. Book: Nordic Exposures:
Scandinavian Identities in Classical Hollywood
Cinema (University of Washington
Press, 2010).
Buus,
Stephanie. Travel, Translation, and
Self in Scandinavian Travel Accounts of
the Napoleonic Era. Filed 2002. Awarded
a post-doctoral research fellowship at
Aarhus University's Center for European
Cultural Studies as part of the project
"Konstruktionen af Norden, 1700-1830:
Utopi og Distopi." Has published on Ludvig
Holberg and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's
Scandinavian travel narrative.
Oxfeldt,
Elisabeth. Orientalism on the Periphery:
The Cosmopolitan Imagination in Nineteenth-Century
Danish and Norwegian Literature and Culture.
Filed Spring 2002. Tenured Associate Professor
at Oslo University. Book: Nordic Orientalism.
Paris and the Cosmopolitan Imagination
1800-1900 (Museum Tusculanum Forlag,
Copenhagen, 2005); Journeys from Scandinavia.
Travelogues of Africa, Asia, and South
America, 1840-2000 (University of
Minnesota Press, 2010); Romanen, nasjonen
og verden. Nordisk litteratur i et postnasjonalt
perspektiv (Universitetsforlaget,
2012).
Thomsen,
Ulla. Familie-Tidende: A Portrayal
of Danish Women's Rights in 1871. Filed
2002. Instructor at the College of Marin
teaching courses related to the literature
of Hans Christian Andersen.
Stern,
Michael Jay. Strindberg's Encounter
with Nietzsche: The Conflation of Autobiography
and History. Filed 2000.
Tenured Associate Professor at the University
of Oregon-Eugene. Visiting Assistant Professor,
University of Chicago, 2001. Book: Nietzsche's
Ocean, Strindberg's Open Sea (2008).
He has published on Søren Kierkegaard,
Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Friedrich
Nietzsche, and Ingmar Bergman. His next
book project, The Singing Socrates,
involves a discussion of music and passion
in the nineteenth century. Associate Professor,
Department of German and Scandinavian,
University of Oregon, beginning Fall 2001.
Segerberg,
Ebba Filippa. Nostalgia, Narrative,
and Modernity in Swedish Silent Cinema.
Filed 1999. Adjunct Lecturer of Swedish
in the German Department, Washington University,
St. Louis. Literary translator of Swedish
detective wrtiers Henning Mankell and
Kjell Westö.
Olmstead,
Charles Maxwell. An Introduction to
Oddr Snorrason's 'Óláfs
saga Tryggvasonar'. Filed 1998. Initially
Assistant Professor in the German Department
at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Later left to study theology. Pastor of
Higganum Congregational Church, Higganum,
Connecticut since 2004.
Borovsky,
Zoe Patrice. Rocking the Boat: Women
in Old Norse Literature. Filed 1994.
Hired as an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
at the University of Oregon.
Zagar,
Monika. Ideological Clowns in the Fiction
of Dag Solstad. Filed 1994.
Tenured Associate Professor at the University
of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Department of
German, Scandinavian, and Dutch. Book:
Ideological Clowns: Dog Solstad Between
Modernism and Politics, Vienna: Edition
Praesens, 2002. Served as one of two primary
organizers of a conference on World War
II and the Holocaust in Norway, held in
April of 2007. Has published articles
on Norwegian literature.
Tangherlini,
Timothy Roland. Interpreting Legend:
Evald Tang Kristensen's Legend Informants
and their Repertoires. Filed 1992.
Hired as a Visiting Assistant Professor
at the University of California, Los Angeles
in the Scandinavian Section. Now an Associate
Professor at UCLA.
Sandberg,
Mark Bennion. Missing Persons: Spectacle
and Narrative in Late Nineteenth-Century
Scandinavia. Filed 1991.
Hired as a Lecturer/Assistant Professor
in the Department of Germanic Languages
and Literatures, University of Chicago.
Now an Associate Professor at the University
of California, Berkeley.
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