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Supporting a Threatened Language
June 4, 2026
Ian Gwin Named Nadia Christensen Scholar, 2025-6
June 17, 2025
Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain; conversation with author Margaret Willson
March 1, 2023
Overlooked no more: Tove Ditlevsen, Danish writer of confessional autofiction
January 8, 2023
Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Studies is awarded to Karin Filipsson
October 20, 2022
Maxine Savage awarded the Chester Fritz International Research Fellowship for 2022-2023
October 4, 2022
Maxine Savage awarded the Arlene Hunter Scholarship for 2022-2023
June 24, 2022
Karin Filipsson wins Marna Feldt Graduate Publication Award
March 2, 2022
Solvita Burr publishes new book
Ceļvedis pilsētu tekstu izpētē (A Guide to Exploring City Texts)
January 24, 2021
Camille Witbeck Receives Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Study, 2020-2021
December 16, 2020
‘We belong out there’: How the Nordic concept of friluftsliv — outdoor life — could help the Pacific Northwest get through this COVID winter
October 23, 2020
Translating a
Crisis
August 17, 2020
UW expert: Kraken are undefeatable; few who see the beast live to tell the tale
July 30, 2020
Who killed Sweden’s prime minister? 1986 assassination of Olof Palme is finally solved – maybe
June 11, 2020
2019 Letter From the Chair
December 13, 2019
Pétur Valsson receives Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Studies, 2019-20, for Lars von Trier research
September 9, 2019
Faculty Friday: Lotta Gavel Adams
December 7, 2018
Letter from the Chair
October 17, 2018
Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara Wins Kotikielen Seura Article Prize
April 11, 2018
Olivia Gunn's research on
Den Store Barnedåpen
and
The Alberta Trilogy
November 2, 2017
What are you excited about doing in 2017-2018? Faculty Activities
October 27, 2017
By Air, Sea, and Land
October 26, 2017
Lecturer Ilmari Ivaska named Researcher of the Month by The Language Bank of Finland
May 16, 2017
Inspired by Scholarship: Mimi Nielsen
November 17, 2016
Thomas Kovach: Inspired by Scholarship in Uppsala
November 15, 2016
Christine Ingebritsen: Understanding Scandinavian Small States Helps Us Understand Brexit
July 25, 2016
Evan Wright Defends Dissertation on Comparative Ecocritical Approaches to Finnish and American Literature
March 22, 2016
Danish Modern: Between Art and Design by Mark Mussari (PhD, UW Scandinavian Studies, 1999)
February 22, 2016
Faculty Spotlight: Assistant Professor Olivia Gunn
February 9, 2016
Olivia Gunn on the Tragic Quotidian in Ibsen and Maeterlinck
January 15, 2016
Anna Rühl Defends PhD Dissertation on Novels of Knausgård and Espedal
December 30, 2015
Former Visiting Scholar Publishes Book on Small States
January 13, 2015
Graduate Student Liina-Ly Roos Published in Baltic Screen Media Review
December 9, 2014
POLITIKEN awards a five-heart review to book on Blixen by UW Professor of Scandinavian Studies
September 9, 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' New Book Explores "The Singing Revolution"
December 10, 2013
New book from Professor Christine Ingebritsen out now!
August 8, 2013
Professor Andrew Nestingen's book on
Aki Kaurismäki
published
June 24, 2013
New book on Karen Blixen
February 7, 2013
16th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium
January 17, 2013
Maren Anderson Johnson Wins Open Essay Competition to Attend the Nobel Peace Prize Forum
January 30, 2012
Scandinavian Crime Fiction
- Published and Available
February 11, 2011
Three New Books from New Directions in Scandinavian Studies in 2008
October 15, 2007
Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide
December 1, 2005
