News
Seeking Lecturers for 2015-16 (deadline April 2)
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 »
New book by Mark Sandberg
Ibsen’s Houses: Architectural Metaphor and the Modern Uncanny will be published by Cambridge University Press in March 2015. » read more »
New Faculty Hire in the Department of Scandinavian
We are excited to welcome a newly hired Assistant Professor to the Department of Scandinavian. » read more »
New book by John Lindow
Trolls: An Unnatural History (Chicago, 2014) is John Lindow’s new book. » read more »
New book by Linda Rugg
Self-Projection: The Director’s Image in Art Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 2014) » read more »
SASS Conference 2013 in San Francisco
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
View from the San Francisco Hilton, the conference venue
Steve Sem-Sandberg in conversation with Ulf Olsson
The Norwegian author Hanne Ørstavik