News Archive

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Karen Blixen
Prof. Stecher interviewed for Danish POLITIKEN feature article
Andy Meyer making lefse
Get to know our new Norwegian instructor, Andy Meyer!
Mia Spangenberg
Mia Spangenberg - Ph.D., 2009
Sampo
The Myth of Sampo - an infinite source of fortune and greed
Marianne Stecher
Check out this week's Faculty Friday article on The Whole U - it features our very own Marianne Stecher!
Scandinavian30 Poster
Scandinavian 30 Renews Relationship With Nordic Museum
Assistant Professor Olivia Gunn
Olivia Gunn's research on  Den Store Barnedåpen and The Alberta Trilogy
Kristina Legangar Iversen
Reading Scand Guilt in Contemporary Poetry 
Sabina Ivenäs is  Kielland-Løvdal Fellow for 2016 
Olivia Gunn
Olivia Gunn on the Tragic Quotidian in Ibsen and Maeterlinck
Photo © 2015 Swedish Book Review
Helena Forsås-Scott 1945–2015
Latvian Translation Competion- "Found in Translation-Rainis and Aspazija"
Sofi Oksanen, author of When The Doves Disappeared/www.thestar.com
Sofia Oksanen: ‘We know about British colonialism. Russian colonialism is not well known.’
Michael Biggins named 2015 Janko Lavrin Laureate
New Course: Swedish Literary and Cultural History  - SCAND 490 B 
POLITIKEN awards a five-heart review to book on Blixen by UW Professor of Scandinavian Studies
New Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies, Kirstine Kastbjerg
Barbro Osher ProSuecia Foundation upgrades Professorship in Swedish to an Endowed Chair in Swedish Studies
New Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies, Ralitsa Lazarova
Graduate Student Liina-Ly Roos Awarded Master's Degree
Mimi Nielsen Awarded Fellowship
Faculty and Grad Students Contribute to New Book on Hans Christian Andersen
Marianne Stecher Explores the Essays of Karen Blixen in New Book
Danish Press Praise Mark Mussari's Translation