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Barbro Osher Endowed Chair of Swedish Studies
Associate Professor; Graduate Program Coordinator
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Acting Instructor of Danish
Assistant Teaching Professor of Norwegian
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Department Chair, Professor
Georg and Nina Pedersen Endowed Professor of Danish Studies
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- International Ibsen Conference in Zurich (July 7, 2026)
- Supporting a Threatened Language (June 4, 2026)
- Syttende Mai Parade in Ballard (May 20, 2026)
- Tim Bourns at UC Berkeley: Animal Minds in the Medieval North (March 6, 2026)
- SPR 26: Danish for Professionals AUT 26: Decoding the Danish Model for Sustainability (January 30, 2026)
Related Research
- Bjelland Hagberg, E., & Gunn, O. N. (2026). Cruising Norway’s queer archives : dialogic co-performativity between the stacks of Skeivt Arkiv. [University of Washington Libraries].
- 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.