Recent News
We are thrilled to announce that Karin Filipsson has been awarded the PhD degree in Scandinavian Languages and Literature in Autumn quarter 2025. Her PhD dissertation, Jonas Hassen Khemiri and the Swedish Novel: Autofiction, Intertextuality and Postmigrant Melancholy, investigates the novels of the contemporary Swedish writer, whose works have been translated into 35 languages…
On October 23rd, the department hosted a faculty delegation from the University of Bergen who were visiting the UW campus in conjunction with One Ocean Week. Rector Margrethe Haugen along with research scientists and other faculty from Bergen drank coffee and ate apple cake alongside our department's faculty and graduate students.
The Graduate Program in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington is now accepting applications for its MA and PhD programs for the 2026/27 academic year. If you are interested, mark your calendars as graduate admission for Autumn 2026 will open on 15 December 2025, and the deadline for applications is 15 January 2026.
Our Department is so pleased to let you all know that one of our former graduates, Mia Spangenberg, has an event at Third Place Books in Ravenna on June 10th to discuss the recent release of Pirkko Saisio's novel 'Backlight', which she translated from Finnish.
See Third Place Books' event information:
In exciting department news, Karin Filipsson, a current Ph.D. student, has been awarded the International SWEA prize in literature!
From their announcement:
God jul allihopa! Wishing you warm holiday greetings from the UW Swedish Studies program!
Gleðilega hátíð! Happy Holidays!
Greetings from the Old Norse Program at UW!
