Faculty and Staff

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Department Professor and Chair Andrew Nestingen defends funding for the humanities in Seattle Times op-ed

March 29, 2017
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Visiting Scholar: Stig Tenold

February 16, 2017
Ilmari

Ilmari Ivaska awarded Kari Sajavaara dissertation prize

January 20, 2017
Kristian

Kristian Næsby Cracks the Code to Making Danish Friends in  The Murmur. 

December 1, 2016
Riddu Riddu

Graduate student Karin Eriksson visits Arctic Europe

November 15, 2016
Graduate Student Maxine Savage moderating a literature discussion at Taste of Iceland

Members of UW Scandinavian Studies moderate literature discussion in KEXP radio broadcast for Taste of Iceland

October 27, 2016
Professor Christine Ingebritsen

Christine Ingebritsen: Understanding Scandinavian Small States Helps Us Understand Brexit

July 25, 2016

Britain leaves the EU: A small state of mind | The Seattle Times

July 22, 2016
Karen Eriksson

Karin Eriksson Receives Antoinette Wills Endowed Scholarship, 2016-17

May 9, 2016
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Liina-Ly Roos Awarded Chester William Fritz Scholarship for 2016-17

May 9, 2016
Anna Ruhl

Anna  Rühl  Awarded Aurora Borealis Prize, 2016

May 9, 2016
Ilmari Ivaska

Ilmari Ivaska Wins Kotikielen Seura Dissertation Prize

March 22, 2016
Professor Lotta Gavel Adams at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies (r)

Professor Lotta Gavel Adams on Forbidden Publication

March 9, 2016
Assistant Professor Olivia Gunn and PhD Student Liina-Ly Roos

Faculty Spotlight: Assistant Professor Olivia Gunn

February 9, 2016
Olivia Gunn

Olivia Gunn on the Tragic Quotidian in Ibsen and Maeterlinck

January 15, 2016
Special Guests Lola Rogers and Johanna Sinisalo

Finnish Program 25th Anniversary Celebration

October 27, 2015
Ambassador David O'Sullivan speaking to Professor Christine Ingebritsen's class

EU Ambassador To the United States Visits the Department of Scandinavian Studies

October 19, 2015

Faculty Spotlight

June 23, 2015

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

Professor Andrew Nestingen Appointed Department Chair Effective July 1, 2015

April 30, 2015

ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY HONORS PROFESSOR ANN-CHARLOTTE GAVEL ADAMS

March 9, 2015

Michael Biggins named 2015 Janko Lavrin Laureate

March 3, 2015

DANA (Danish Academic Network in America) Launches its New Website and Membership Drive.

February 3, 2015
Hilmar Thor Hilmarsson's Small States in a Global Economy Book Cover

Former Visiting Scholar Publishes Book on Small States

January 13, 2015

Professor Jan Sjåvik Retires

December 4, 2014
Four Mariannes

"Four Mariannes" Celebrated Together at the Annual BOGFORUM (Book Fair) in Copenhagen Nov. 8th

November 18, 2014

New Freshman and Sophomore Collegium Seminar Course taught by Professor Ingebritsen

November 18, 2014
Barbro Osher

Scandinavian Studies Announcements

September 24, 2014
Jan Sjaavik

Message from the Chair

September 24, 2014

Professor Christine Ingebritsen appears on King 5 News 

September 19, 2014
Ia Dubois

Faculty Spotlight

September 13, 2014

POLITIKEN awards a five-heart review to book on Blixen by UW Professor of Scandinavian Studies

September 9, 2014

Barbro Osher ProSuecia Foundation upgrades Professorship in Swedish to an Endowed Chair in Swedish Studies

June 18, 2014

Professor Smidchens Honored by Latvian Government 

April 30, 2014

Faculty and Grad Students Contribute to New Book on Hans Christian Andersen

March 11, 2014

Marianne Stecher Explores the Essays of Karen Blixen in New Book

March 3, 2014

Ph.D. Candidate Melissa Lucas Defends Dissertation

March 3, 2014

Guntis Šmidchens Interview in The Daily

January 22, 2014
Professor Christine Ingebritsen

Christine Ingebritsen in TIME Magazine

January 14, 2014

Guntis Šmidchens' New Book Explores "The Singing Revolution"

December 10, 2013

Danish Ambassador  Peter Taksøe-Jensen Visits Seattle's Danish Community

November 26, 2013

Andrew Nestingen Presents on Aki Kaurismäki and the Finnish Tango

November 21, 2013

Professor Andrew Nestingen's book on Aki Kaurismäki published

June 24, 2013
Karen Blixen

New book on Karen Blixen 

February 7, 2013
Guntis Smidchens receiving Order of the Crosss of Terra Mariana-4th Class

Guntis Smidchens Knighted by President of Estonia

January 31, 2012

Scandinavian Crime Fiction - Published and Available

February 11, 2011

Department Scholar and Soccer Coach featured in University Week

June 4, 2010
Jan Sjavik

Jan Sjåvik Appointed Department Chair - July 1, 2010

May 10, 2010

Fulbright Hildeman Scholar Teaches Course on Sustainability in Contemporary Scandinavian Literature

April 5, 2010
Vladis Zatlers with UW faculty and graduate students

Latvian President Visits

May 18, 2009