People - Faculty

Daunis Auers

Visiting Fulbright Professor

dauers@uw.edu

RAI 305 X

Russell Black

Lecturer Part-Time

rcblack@uw.edu

RAI 305 Q

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

Colin Connors

Electronic Media Producer
Lecturer

colingc@uw.edu

Office Hours: Thursdays 11am-12pm

RAI 305 Q

Digital Humanities, Folklore, Icelandic, Indigenous, Medieval, Norwegian, Old Norse, Public Scholarship

Inga Daraškienė

Acting Instructor of Lithuanian

ingad@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

RAI 305 W

Lithuanian

Amanda Doxtater

Assistant Professor
TA Coordinator
Barbro Osher Endowed Chair of Swedish Studies

doxtater@uw.edu / 206-543-6099

Office Hours: Thursday 11:30-12:30 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

Tapio Hokkanen

Acting Instructor of Finnish

tapioh@uw.edu / 206-616-6697

Office Hours: By appointmet

RAI 305 Y

Finnish, Language Pedagogy, language policies, Linguistics, phonetics, Writing Pedagogy

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

Kim Kraft

Assistant Teaching Professor of Swedish

kimkraft@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays and Fridays 1-5 p.m.

RAI 305 X

Culture, Education, Language Pedagogy, Literature, Scandinavian Literature and Culture, Social Justice, Swedish

Morten Bøje Stensgaard Larsen

Acting Instructor of Danish

mbsl@uw.edu

RAI 305 S

Aesthetics, Culture, Danish, Literary Criticism, Literature, Philosophy, Scandinavian Literature and Culture

Andy Meyer

Assistant Teaching Professor of Norwegian

meyera@uw.edu / 206-543-6884

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 9:00 - 10:00, or by appointment

RAI 305 X

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

Andrew Nestingen

Department Chair, Professor

akn@uw.edu / 206-543-0643

Office Hours: Wed 11-12

RAI 318 C

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

Lauren Poyer

Undergraduate Adviser
Associate Teaching Professor

lpoyer@uw.edu

Office Hours: (Au23) Wed 12:30 - 1:20 PM ; (Advising) Tues & Thurs 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

RAI 305 U

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

Guntis Šmidchens

Kazickas Family Endowed Professor in Baltic Studies; Associate Professor of Baltic Studies; Head, Baltic Studies Program

guntiss@uw.edu / 206-616-5224

Raitt 305 R

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

Marianne Stecher-Hansen

Professor

marianne@uw.edu / 206-543-6084

Office Hours: Thursdays 3:00 - 5:00pm in Autumn quarter 2023. Or by appointment.

Raitt 305Z

Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Danish, Historiography, Novel/Prose Fiction, 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