The Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington offers a number of courses that include material related to Iceland, including its literature, culture, and history. From time to time instruction in both Modern Icelandic and Old Icelandic (Old Norse) is also provided.
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Assistant Professor
Associate Teaching Professor
Latest News
- Tim Bourns at UC Berkeley: Animal Minds in the Medieval North (March 6, 2026)
- UW Study Abroad Fair (January 20, 2026)
- Faculty Publication (May 18, 2022)
- Marianne Stecher invited Keynote Speaker for AASSC at Congress 2015 for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa, June 2nd. (June 8, 2015)
- PÉTUR VALSSON RECEIVES NADIA CHRISTENSEN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN NORDIC STUDIES (January 26, 2015)
Related Research
- 'Cats in Medieval Icelandic Life and Literature', in The Cat's Pyjamas: Cats in Culture and Society, eds. Charlotte Doesburg and Riitta Valijarvi (Freeland (Oxfordshire): Inter/Connexions) [forthcoming]
- 'Introducing Eco-Norse: Settlement, Environment, and Narrative in Medieval Iceland', in Eco-Norse: Essays on Old Norse Literature and the Environment, eds. Timothy Bourns and Carl Phelpstead (London: Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London, 2026), v–xii
- 'Driftwood and the Divine: Ecocritical Readings of trémenn', in Eco-Norse: Essays on Old Norse Literature and the Environment, eds. Timothy Bourns and Carl Phelpstead (London: Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London, 2026), 97–124
- ‘Animal Emotionality and Selfhood in Old Norse Textual Culture', Emotions: History, Culture, Society 8.1 (June, 2024), 97–115
- 'Trees in the Saga Dreamscape', in Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies: Nature and the Environment in Old Norse Literature and Culture, eds. Reinhard Hennig, Emily Lethbridge, and Michael Schulte (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023), 65–85
- Connors, Colin Gioia. 2022. "Translating Context with Digital Media in Medieval Icelandic Literature: Hrafnkels saga and The eSaga Project." In Culture Work: Folklore and the Humanities for a 21st Century Public, ed. Tim Frandy & Marcus Cederström, pp.302-11. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
- ‘Becoming-Animal in the Icelandic Sagas’, Neophilologus 105.4 (August, 2021), 633–53
- ‘The Language of Birds in Old Norse Tradition’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 120.2 (April, 2021), 209–38
- Connors, Colin Gioia. 2021. "A Social Analysis of Place-Names in Hrafnkels saga." PhD dissertation. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Savage, Maxine. 2021. “A Queer and Foreign State : Iceland’s Cinematic Subjects”. Lambda Nordica 25 (3-4), 29-53. https://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v25.707.