Department Chair, Professor
Georg and Nina Pedersen Endowed Professor of Danish Studies
Fields of Interest
Education
PhD, Scandinavian Languages & Literatures, UC Berkeley, 1990
MA, Scandinavian Languages & Literature, University of Washington, 1981
BA, History and Scandinavian Languages & Literature, UC Berkeley, 1978
Biography
Curriculum Vitae
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Selected Research
- Stecher-Hansen, Marianne, ed. Nordic War Stories: World War II as History, Fiction, Media and Memory. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.
- 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.
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Professional AffiliationsAmerican Scandinavian Foundation, Danish Society of Language and Literature, Modern Language Association, Society for Advancement of Scandinavian Studies, Association for Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada.