People - Faculty

Russell Black

Lecturer Part-Time

RAI 305 Q

Comparative Literature, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Linguistics, Medieval, Old Norse, Philology, Textual Studies, Translation and Interpretation

Timothy Bourns

Assistant Professor

tbourns@uw.edu

Animal Studies, Comparative Literature, Ecocriticism, Emotions, Folklore and Mythology, Icelandic, Indigenous, Literary Criticism, Medieval, Old Norse, Postcolonial

Caroline Brekkan

Acting Instructor of Swedish

cbrekk@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

RAI 305 T

Applied Linguistics, functional grammar, Icelandic, Linguistics, phonetics, phonology, Scandinavian Area Studies, Second Language Acquisition, Swedish, syntax, Translation and Interpretation

Amanda Doxtater

Associate Professor
TA Coordinator
Barbro Osher Endowed Chair of Swedish Studies

doxtater@uw.edu / 206-543-6099

Office Hours: Thursday 12:00-1:00 or gladly by appointment (in person or on zoom)

RAI 305 N

Comparative Literature, Film/Cinema, Literature, Scandinavian Area Studies, Scandinavian Literature and Culture, Swedish

Olivia Noble Gunn

Associate Professor; Graduate Program Coordinator

ogunn@uw.edu

RAI 305 P

Comparative Literature, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Norwegian, Novel/Prose Fiction, Performance Studies, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Scandinavian Literature and Culture

Gina Holvoet

Acting Instructor of Lithuanian

ginah9@uw.edu / 2068516881

Office Hours: By appointment

RAI 305W

Digital Humanities, History of Bible translation into Lithuanian, Linguistic analysis of Old Lithuanian texts, Lithuanian, Old Lithuanian texts

Lars Jenner

Extension Lecturer (UW Educational Outreach)

larsj5@uw.edu / 206-552-1973

Ethnography, Folklore and Mythology, Race and Ethnicity, Scandinavian Literature and Culture, Swedish, Translation and Interpretation

Morten Bøje Stensgaard Larsen

Acting Instructor of Danish

mbsl@uw.edu

RAI 305 V

Aesthetics, Danish, Intellectual History, Kierkegaard Studies, Labor & Literature, Literary Criticism, Literature, Philosophy, Scandinavian Literature and Culture

Andy Meyer

Assistant Teaching Professor of Norwegian

meyera@uw.edu / 206-543-6884

Office Hours: On leave

On leave

Ecocriticism, Norwegian, Poetry and Poetics, Scandinavian Literature and Culture, Translation and Interpretation

Līga Miklaševiča

Acting Instructor of Latvian

ligamik@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

RAI 305 W

Baltic Studies, Culture, Digital Humanities, Folklore and Mythology, Latvian

Heidi Mustisto

Acting Instructor of Finnish

heidimus@uw.edu

305Y

Andrew Nestingen

Professor

akn@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wed 11-12

RAI 305 Z

20th Century, Culture, Film/Cinema, Finnish, Scandinavian Literature and Culture

Lauren Poyer

Associate Teaching Professor

lpoyer@uw.edu

Office Hours: AUT 2025 - Tues & Wed 2:30-3:30 PM ; Undergraduate advising Wed & Thurs 9:00-11:00 AM

RAI 305

Folklore and Mythology, Icelandic, Linguistics, Medieval, Norwegian, Old Norse

Guntis Šmidchens

Kazickas Family Endowed Professor in Baltic Studies; Associate Professor of Baltic Studies; Director, Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Jackson School of International Studies

guntiss@uw.edu / 206-616-5224

Raitt 305 R

Baltic Studies, Estonian, Folklore and Mythology, History, International Studies, Latvian, Lithuanian

Marianne Stecher-Hansen

Department Chair, Professor
Georg and Nina Pedersen Endowed Professor of Danish Studies

marianne@uw.edu / 206-543-0643

Office Hours: By appointment or drop-in M - F afternoons

Raitt 318 C

Danish, Historiography, Literature and Other Arts, Media Studies, Memory Studies, Postcolonial, Scandinavian Literature and Culture, Textual Studies

Emeriti Faculty

Ia Dübois

Senior Lecturer Emerita

idubois@uw.edu

20th Century, 21st Century, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Scandinavian Literature and Culture, Swedish

Ann-Charlotte (Lotta) Gavel Adams

Professor Emerita and Barbro Osher Endowed Chair of Swedish Studies

lotta@u.washington.edu

Scandinavian Literature and Culture, Swedish

Christine Ingebritsen

Professor Emerita

Ecology and Sustainability, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, International Studies, Norwegian, Political Science, Scandinavian Area Studies, Scandinavian Literature and Culture

Terje I. Leiren

Professor Emeritus of Scandinavian Studies, Sverre Arestad Endowed Chair in Norwegian Studies

leiren@uw.edu / 206-543-0645

19th Century, 20th Century, Culture, History, Medieval, Norwegian, Scandinavian Area Studies

Henning Sehmsdorf

Associate Professor Emeritus

Scandinavian Literature and Culture

Jan Sjåvik

Professor Emeritus

sjavik@u.washington.edu / 206-685-2551

Critical Theory, Literary Criticism, Scandinavian Literature and Culture

Birgitta Steene

Professor Emerita

Scandinavian Literature and Culture

Affiliate/Adjunct Faculty

Scandinavian Studies Adjunct & Affiliate Appointments Policy

Name	Title
Klaus Brandl	Adjunct Professor (German)
Jay L. Bruns III	Affiliate Instructor
Elise Rainer	Affiliate Assistant Professor
Peter Cohan	Adjunct Associate Professor (Architecture)
Ástráður Eyinsteinson	Affiliate Professor
Lizette Gradén	Affiliate Associate Professor
Katherine Jane Hanson	Affiliate Associate Professor (Scandinavian)
Mette Hjort	Affiliate Professor (Visual Studies, Lingnan University)
Alison Johnston	Affiliate Associate Professor
Violeta Kelertas	Affiliate Professor
Katherine Larson	Affiliate Assistant Professor
Heather MacLaughlin Garbes	Affiliate Assistant Professor
Mark Mussari	Affiliate Assistant Professor
Paul R. Norlen	Affiliate Assistant Professor
Tiina Nunnally	Affiliate Instructor
Aldis Purs	Affiliate Assistant Professor
Ellen Rees	Affiliate Associate Professor
Sven H. Rossel	Affiliate Professor (Scandinavian, Universität Wien)
Marianne Stølen	Affiliate Assistant Professor
Margaret Willson	Affiliate Associate Professor
Colin Connors	Affiliate Instructor
Kim Kraft	Affiliate Assistant Teaching Professor