Graduate Students

  • Isobel earned dual Bachelor of the Arts degrees in Classics, and German and Scandinavian Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2015. » read more »

  • Love Carlshamre is a PhD candidate in the Scandinavian Department, where he is writing his dissertation on America in modern and contemporary Swedish literature. He holds a B.A. (2018) and M.A. (2020) in Comparative Literature from Stockholm University and has worked as an editorial coordinator at Albert Bonnier Publishing. At Berkeley, he has taught Swedish on both beginning and intermediate levels and is currently teaching a Reading & Composition course about the Scandinavian short story.

  • Originally an architecture major at UC Berkeley, Sarah Bienko Eriksen signed up for an introductory Danish class in the fall of 2004 when something else fell through. One thing led to another and in 2008 she graduated with a BA in Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature. » read more »

  • Victoria Häggblom is a writer and translator of Swedish with an MFA from Columbia University. Her translation of poet Bruno K. Öijer’s The Trilogy won the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s translation prize and her short fiction has been published in several literary journals. Her interests are Critical Theory, Ecocriticism, Creative Writing, and Scandinavian modernist literature.

  • Michael Lawson is a 4th-year PhD student in the Department of Scandinavian with a dual focus on Scandinavian Languages & Literatures and Medieval Studies.

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  • Joshua Lee is a current PhD student at UC Berkeley’s Department of Scandinavian. He received his BA from the University of Edinburgh in History and Politics in 2020, an MLitt in Mediaeval History from the University of St Andrews in 2021, and an MA in Scandinavian Languages and Literature from UC Berkeley in 2024. His MLitt thesis was entitled ‘Friendship and Mistrust: characterising interactions between Scoto-Norse leaders and Norwegian kings c.1100-1260’.

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  • Natalya is a current PhD student at the department of Scandinavian with a Designated Emphasis in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. She obtained a B.A. in English and Scandinavian Studies at BYU in 2021, and received her M.A. from UC Berkeley in 2023. Her research interests include the relationship between Nordic literature and its political contexts, especially as it relates to the political landscape of women (including trans women) and gender queer individuals. » read more »