Scandinavian Literature and Culture

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Amanda Doxtater
Associate Professor
TA Coordinator
Barbro Osher Endowed Chair of Swedish Studies
Olivia Noble Gunn
Associate Professor; Graduate Program Coordinator
Lars Jenner
Extension Lecturer (UW Educational Outreach)
Morten Bøje Stensgaard Larsen
Acting Instructor of Danish
Andy Meyer
Assistant Teaching Professor of Norwegian
Andrew Nestingen
Professor
Marianne Stecher-Hansen
Department Chair, Professor
Georg and Nina Pedersen Endowed Professor of Danish Studies

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Related Research

Gunn, Olivia Noble. “Knausgård’s Scandalous ‘Labia’: Shame, Re-Enchantment, and the Pursuit of a More Imaginative Sex Education.” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 96, no. 3, 2024, pp. 92–116.
Olivia Noble Gunn. “Siss/Unn/ingen: The Queer Revenant in Is-slottet.” Edda, vol. 110, no. 2, 2023, pp. 90–102, https://doi.org/10.18261/edda.110.2.3.
Vol.29 (2022): Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études Scandinaves au Canada Vol. 29 (2022).
Gunn, Olivia N. “Leaving the Theatre of Suffering: Two Endings—and a Color-Conscious Future?—for Hedda Gabler.” Theatre Journal (Washington, D.C.), vol. 73, no. 2, 2021, pp. 189–207.
Toomet, Tiina. Female Agency and Violence in Danish and Estonian Folk Ballads. Master's Thesis, Scandinavian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, 2020.
Gunn, Olivia Noble. “Growing Up: Knausgård on Proust, Boyishness, and (Straight) Time.” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 92, no. 3, 2020, pp. 325–347.
Gunn, Olivia Noble. Empty Nurseries, Queer Occupants: Reproduction and the Future in Ibsen's Late Plays. Routledge, 2020.
"The Industrial Revolution of Faroese Cinema: The Development of a National Cinema within a Transnational Industry''
Roos, Liina-Ly. "The Child, Affective Memories of War, and Cruel Everyday in Nordic and Baltic Film and Literature." Dissertation. University of Washington, 2018.
Stecher [Stecher-Hansen], Marianne. Review of Mads Bunch, Isak Dinesen Reading Søren Kierkegaard. On Christianity, Seduction, Gender, and Repetition. In Danske Studier (2017): 197 - 202.