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Biography
Marianne Stecher-Hansen is department chair and professor of Danish and Scandinavian Studies. Professor Stecher-Hansen teaches and publishes on 19th- and 20th century Scandinavian literary figures, materials and texts. Her research engages cultural memory studies, literary criticism, postcolonial theory and textual studies in relation to the Nordic region, particularly Denmark. Her edited collection Nordic War Stories - World War II as History, Fiction, Media and Memory (2021; paperback 2024) is published by Berghahn Books in the Worlds of Memory series. She has also published The Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixen’s Essays (2014), distributed by the University of Chicago Press, and the critical commentary for Karen Blixen Værker; Skygger paa Græsset—Essays (2020), published by the Danish Society for Language and Literature (DSL) in Denmark. Professor Stecher-Hansen teaches graduate seminars as well as undergraduate courses in Scandinavian literature and culture, advanced Danish language and literature as well as classes that are joint-listed in Global Literary Studies (GLITS) and European Studies (JSIS A). She serves as the Review Editor for the journal of Scandinavian Studies.
Research
Selected Research
- Stecher-Hansen, Marianne, ed. Nordic War Stories: World War II as History, Fiction, Media and Memory. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. Download PDF
- Stecher [Stecher-Hansen], Marianne T., "Efterskrift - Erindringsfortællinger og Essayistik," in Blixen, Karen, Skygger paa Græsset & Essays. Edited by Nicolas Reinecke-Wilkendorff. 1. Tekstkritiske og kommenterede udgave ed. Værker / Karen Blixen. Kbh.: Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab/Gyldendal, 2020, pp. 515 - 592.
- Stecher [Stecher-Hansen], Marianne. Review of Mads Bunch, Isak Dinesen Reading Søren Kierkegaard. On Christianity, Seduction, Gender, and Repetition. In Danske Studier (2017): 197 - 202.
- Kastbjerg, Kirstine Marie. “Reading the Surface: The Danish Gothic of B.S. Ingemann, H.C. Andersen, Karen Blixen and Beyond.” University of Washington, PhD dissertation, 2014
- Stecher [Stecher-Hansen], Marianne. The Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixen's Essays: Gender, Nazi Germany, and Colonial Desire. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press/University of Chicago, 2014. pp. 276.
- Marianne Stecher. "Karen Blixen on Feminism and Womanliness - 'En Baaltale med 14 Aaars Fosinkelse'." Scandinavian Studies 82.2 (2011): 191-232.
- Marianne Stecher. "Soldier’s Daughter: Karen Blixen and Nazism – ‘Breve fra et Land i Krig'." Scandinavian Studies 82.1 (2010): 53-95.
- Marianne Stecher. Danish Writers from the Reformation to Decadence. Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 300. Detroit: Gale Group, 2004.
- Marianne Stecher. Twentieth-Century Danish Writers, Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol 214. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999.
- Marianne Stecher. History Revisited: Fact and Fiction in Thorkild Hansen's Documentary Works. Camden House: 1997.
Research Advised
- Toomet, Tiina. Female Agency and Violence in Danish and Estonian Folk Ballads. Master's Thesis, Scandinavian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, 2020.
- Nielsen, Jan Henrik Krogh. "People's Faces:" Levinasian Ethics in Per Olov Enquist, Villy Sørensen, and Knut Hamsun. PhD Dissertation, University of Washington, 2019.
- Lucas, Melissa. Digital Literary Arts -- Scandinavian E-Texts: Criticism, Theory, and Practice. PhD Dissertation, University of Washington, 2014.
- Hughes, Sean. "Danishness and Otherness: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Danish Literature." MA Thesis. University of Washington, 2011.
- Mussari, Mark. "Farvens klang:" Color Spaces in Strindberg, Branner, Dinesen and Bjørneboe. PhD Dissertation, Scandinavian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, 1999.