Professor Emerita and Barbro Osher Endowed Chair of Swedish Studies
Fields of Interest
Education
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1990
Biography
Dr. Gavel Adams is also Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies and member of the faculty of the European Studies Program.
Teaching:
- Scandinavian Drama
- Swedish literature
- Strindberg and European Cultural History
- Scandinavian Women Writers
- Advanced Swedish language
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Selected Research
- Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams. Twentieth Century Swedish Writers, Vol. 259 in the series Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. and Gale Research, Inc., 2002.
- Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams. August Strindberg's Legender. Stockholm: Norstedts, 2001.
- Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams, Terje I. Leiren. Stage and Screen: Studies in Scandinavian Drama and Film. DreamPlayPress Northwest: 2000.
- Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams. "Guldmakaren och Ockultisten." Strindberg: Diktare och mångfrestare (ed. Margareta Brundin). Stockholm: Kungliga Biblioteket, 1999. 137-146.
- Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams. August Strindberg's Inferno. Stockholm: Norstedts, 1994.
Research Advised
- Warburton, Timothy. "From AIDS to Assimilation: Male Homosexuality in Swedish Literature (1968-2013)." Doctor of Philosophy University of Washington, 2015.
- Leonard, Peter. "Imagining Themselves: National Belongings in the Post-Ethnic Nordic Literature." PhD Dissertation. University of Washington, 2011.
- Lazarova, Ralista. "'True Stories' - The Plitics of Emotion in Works of Performative Realism in Recent Swedish Fiction." PhD Dissertation. University of Washington, 2014.
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