The Birgit Baldwin Fellowship, administered by the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study,  has been awarded to our graduate student Ben Bigelow for the academic year 2015-16. » read more »

Each of the first-year language courses in the department is now listed under the name of the individual language in the Online Schedule of Classes for Fall 2015, i.e. Danish 1A, Finnish 1A, Icelandic 1A, Norwegian 1A, and Swedish 1A. The old numbering system using “Scandinavian 1-4A” has been retired.

The Department of Scandinavian will be hiring at the Lecturer rank for Reading & Composition courses, Modern Icelandic and Old Norse language teaching, and/or elective subject courses for both Fall Semester 2015 and Spring Semester 2016. » read more »

Ibsen’s Houses: Architectural Metaphor and the Modern Uncanny will be published by Cambridge University Press in March 2015. » read more »

We are excited to welcome a newly hired Assistant Professor to the Department of Scandinavian. » read more »

Trolls: An Unnatural History (Chicago, 2014) is John Lindow’s new book. » read more »

Self-Projection: The Director’s Image in Art Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 2014) » read more »

The Scandinavian Department at the University of California, Berkeley, welcomed the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study to San Francisco for its 103rd annual meeting, held from May 2-4, 2013 in the San Francisco Hilton/Financial District. We had a lively exchange of ideas, with thematic streams (see program link, below), diverse paper formats, a discussion on the state of the profession, and a spotlight focus on contemporary literature of the Nordic countries. This was the first time SASS has met in San Francisco.

The SASS organizers from UC-Berkeley

Endless nametags

View from the San Francisco Hilton, the conference venue

The Icelandic author Sjón

Steve Sem-Sandberg in conversation with Ulf Olsson

The Norwegian author Hanne Ørstavik

Anne-Marie Aidt in conversation with Karin Sanders

SASS 2013 final program