Associate Professor, Department Chair, Undergraduate Faculty Advisor
Old Norse
Professor Heslop’s research centres on Old Norse textual culture, especially skaldic and eddic poetry, the sagas and the heroic tradition. She approaches this material from a medial perspective, and asks what ‘media theory’ we can detect– in an epoch before the mass media—in Old Norse texts and images. Relevant here is not only the media transition associated with the arrival of manuscript textuality, but also multi- and intermedial phenomena in images, inscriptions, and texts. A complementary area of current research interest, medieval Scandinavian representations and...
Dr. Klingborg works on nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century Scandinavian literature, with particular focus on its intersections with technologies and media networks. His research interests include literature of labor, the history of reading, night studies, educational and propaganda film, and the history of the Nordic welfare states.
He received his PhD in Literary Studies from Stockholm University in 2024. His first book, Verkar film (Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2024), examines how moving images reshaped Swedish modernist literature as film became an integral part of...
Elizabeth H. and Eugene A. Shurtleff Chair in Undergraduate Education
Professor Tangherlini’s research focuses on folklore, and aspects of informal culture in Scandinavia, with a primary focus on Denmark. A folklorist and ethnographer by training, he has worked extensively on understanding the circulation of informal storytelling in both agrarian and urban communities, and the manner in which stories both reflect and inform changes in social, economic and political organization. He has developed various computational methods for the study of topic change and geographic...
Professor Wellendorf’s research focuses on the interface between vernacular Old Norse literature and the Latin tradition. He is particularly interested in learned literature, broadly defined, mythography, historiography, and Old Norse treatises on grammar and poetics. He also takes a great interest in Norse mythology and pre-Christian Scandinavian religion.
His doctoral dissertation (Bergen, 2017) concentrated on Old Norse vision literature. Since then, he has published extensively on Medieval Scandinavian Literature, consistently situating Old Norse texts within the broader...
