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PhD department affiliate Mimi Nielsen recently received a major award from SWEA San Francisco. In a unanimous decision by the SWEA San Francisco board, Mimi will receive a $7,500 cash prize to continue her work on her disseration on Swedish author Emilie Flygare-Carlén. Her working dissertation, “Intolerable Affect: Intensity in Emilie Flygare-Carlén’s Novels and Contemporary Reception” addresses the trans-Scandinavian reception of Flygare-Carlén’s novels. Congratulations Mimi!