Recent News
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 the deadline for applications is January 5, 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.
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!
The UW Baltic Program is off to a fantastic start in Fall Quarter 2024. A cohort of seventeen students is enrolled in Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian language classes; and more are studying in two classes taught in English – “Latvian Literary and Cultural History” and “Balti