Profile

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

 University of Oregon

2012- present: Career Instructor, Department of German and Scandinavian, August 2012-present

Affiliated Faculty, Cinema Studies

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EDUCATION

2012                       Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

                                Scandinavian Language and Literature, with Designated Emphasis in Film

           Dissertation: Pathos, Performance, Volition: Melodrama's Legacy in the Work of Carl Th. Dreyer

           Mark Sandberg (chair), Linda Williams (Film and Media), Linda Rugg

2003                       M.A. University of Washington

           Scandinavian Language and Literature

Thesis: Aesthetic text, gender identity and social critique in Karin Boye's Kris (Crisis, 1934) and Monika Fagerholm's Diva (1998)                 

1997                       B.A. University of Washington

                                Majors: Swedish Language and Literature, Comparative History of Ideas

            University Honors Program

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PUBLICATIONS

Journal articles and book chapters:

“From Diversity to Precarity: Reading Childhood in Ruben Östlund’s Film, Play (2011).” New Dimensions of Diversity in Nordic Culture and Society. Eds. Jenny Björklund and Ursula Lindqvist. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. 190-208. Print.

“Seduction and the Shadowy Body in Ibsen's ‘Bygmester Solness’.” Scandinavica. London, UK: 45.2 (2006): 189-210. Print.

“Bodies in Elevators: The Conveyance of Ethnicity in Recent Swedish Films.” Northern Constellations: New Readings in Nordic Cinema. Ed. C. Claire Thomson. Norwich, UK: Norvik Press, 2006. 59-77. Print.

“Women Readers, Food and the Consumption of Text: Karin Boye's Kris and Monika Fagerholm's Diva.” Gender, Power, Text: Nordic Culture in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Helena Forsås-Scott. Norvik Press Series a. 25 (2004): 125-138. Print.

Forthcoming:

“Melodrama’s ‘Authenticity’ in Carl Th. Dreyer’s La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928).” Melodrama Unbound. Eds. Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams. Under contract with Columbia University Press (forthcoming).

Translations:

“Prelude” by Karin Boye (forthcoming)

“Streetcar and Paradise” by Karin Boye (forthcoming)

Reviews:

“Beverley Driver Eddy: Hjertets Kalejdoskop: En biografi om Karin Michaëlis.” Scandinavica. Norwich, UK: 53.2 (2014): 110-12. Print.

“’Freja Rudels: Hon Hade Verkligen Många Ansikten’: Växelverkan Mellan Karaktär Och Struktur i Livläkarens Besök Av Per Olov Enquist.” Scandinavica. Norwich, UK: 46.2 (2007): 264-267. Print.

Encyclopedia entries:

“Dogme 95.” The Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Nordic Culture  (forthcoming)

“Lasse Hallström.” The Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Nordic Culture  (forthcoming)

 “Roy Andersson.” The Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Nordic Culture  (forthcoming)

Other academic publications:

“Perilous Performance: Carl Th. Dreyer’s Unity of Danger and Beauty.” Danish Film Institute’s Carl Th. Dreyer website carlthdreyer.dk, launched May, 2010. 

[http://english.carlthdreyer.dk/AboutDreyer/Working-method/Perilous-Performance.aspx]

“Dreyer’s Bullfight.” FILM, the Monthly Periodical of the Danish Film Institute, May 2010.

In progress:

Translation of Karin Boye’s novel Kris (Crisis) into English. Under contract with Norvik Press, London.

“Archival Victims of The Danish Golden Age: Tracing Melodrama at Nordisk.” (article) Abstract accepted for special issue of The Journal of Scandinavian Cinema on Scandinavian cinema culture and archival practices: collecting, curating and accessing moving image histories

“Translation and/as Queer Reading Practice: Karin Boye’s Kris (1934)” (article) Abstract accepted for special issue of Lambda Nordica on Queer Readings/Reading the Queer.

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AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

American Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship, Denmark, 2007

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (Scandinavian, UC Berkeley), 2005

Fulbright Fellowship, Department of Film Studies, Stockholm University, 2003

Teaching Assistant of the Year (Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington), 2002

Nomination for University of Washington Excellence in Teaching Award, 2002 

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INVITED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

 “The Golden Age of Swedish Silent Cinema.” Edgar and Betty Larson Swedish Heritage Lecture, Pacific Lutheran University, Washington. 2016.

Introductions to: Once Upon a Time (1922) and Bride of Glomdal (1926), Carl Th. Dreyer Retrospective, Pacific Film Archive Berkeley, California. 2010.

“Archival Imaginings: Working in the Dreyer Archive.” University College London, Graduate Programme in Film Studies. 2010.

 “Zozo (Josef Fares 2006): ‘Accented’ Cinema in Sweden?” University College London, Scandinavian Studies Research Seminar. 2008.

“A Danish (?) Melodramatic Imagination: A Popular Culture Reading of Carl Th. Dreyer’s Work and Film Research Seminar on Nordic Narration, Department of Film and Media, Copenhagen University. 2008.

 “From Kris to Crisis: Presentation of Work-in-Progress Translation of Karin Boye’s Novel.” Annual meeting of SWEA (Swedish Women’s Education Association), San Francisco. 2007.

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Reading Symptom and Surface in Karin Boye’s, Streetcar and Paradise.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2017 (abstract accepted).

“Melodrama and Affected “Sleep”: Revisiting Carl Th. Dreyer’s Nordisk Scenarios, 1913-1920.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, March 2017 (abstract accepted).

“Reframing Karin Boye’s Kris (1934): Queer Translation, Queer Poetics.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2016.

“Reproducing Gender in Transnational Narratives of Non-Reproduction.” Flow: People, Media, Materialities, Norrköping, Sweden, Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS), June 2015.

 “Nobody’s mommy…Nobody’s guilt?” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Ohio State University, Columbus, May 2015

“The Cruel Optimism of Ruben Östlund’s film, Play (2011)” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Yale University, New Haven, March 2014

“Melodrama and Masculinity: Tears and Scandinavian Art-House Cinema” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, UC Berkeley, San Francisco, May 2013

“Performing Bodies and Historical Allegory: Carl Th. Dreyer’s Blade af Satans Bog (Leaves from Satan’s Book, 1921)” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, May 2012

“Serious Games: Love, Academia and Intertextuality in Carl Th. Dreyer’s Gertrud (1964)” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, North Park University, Chicago, April 2011

“From Sorten nat to Vredens dag and back again: Theatricality, high melodrama and Carl Th. Dreyer” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, University of Washington, Seattle, April 2010

“Spectacular Victims: Melodrama and Nordisk Films Kompagni’s ‘Offer’ Films” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, March 2008   

“Place and the Poetics of Obstruction” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Davenport, Iowa/Rock Island Illinois, April 2007

“Fantasy and Falling in Bygmester Solness” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, University of Mississippi, Oxford, May 2006

“’Att skaffa sig ett förflutet’: Memory, Media and Text in Khemiri’s Ett öga rött” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Portland State University, Portland, May 2005

“Bodies in Elevators: Representations of Ethnicity in Recent Swedish Film.” The Gendered Body, Aesthetics and Experience Conference. Kristiansand, Norway, University of Agder, June 2004

“Geographies of Insomnia” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May 2003

“From Hysteric to Diva: The Textual Construction of Identity and Voice, from Karin Boye’s Kris to Monika Fagerholm’s Diva.” Gender, Power, Text. Scandinavian Culture in the Twentieth Century, University College London, June 2002

 “Karin Boye’s resedagbok genom Nietzsche” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, May 2002

“Karin Boye’s Kris as Psychoanalytic Case Study” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, North Park University, Chicago, 2001

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Oregon

Department of German and Scandinavian, 2012-present  

                Swedish Language:

                Second-year Swedish Language and Culture [year-long sequence]

                First-year Swedish Language and Culture [year-long sequence]   

 Scandinavian Film and Literature:

Modern Scandinavian Drama: Ibsen/Strindberg, Spring 2016       

History of Nordic Cinema, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Winter 2016, Fall 2016

Mind Games: Emotion and Subjectivity in Nordic Prose, Winter 2015

Scandinavian Art-house Melodrama, Spring 2013, Spring 2015

                Genre: Seductions in Scandinavian Literature, Spring 2014

                Swedish Film, Family and the Welfare State, Winter 2014, Winter 2017

                Strindberg and Intermediality, Winter 2013   

 Cinema Studies:

Melodrama, Spring 2017

 

University of California, Berkeley

Department of Scandinavian, 2004-2011

Swedish Language:

Advanced Swedish: Swedish Cinema and the “Family,” Spring 2012

Advanced Swedish: Topics in Swedish History and Literature 1700-1900, Fall 2011

                Second-Year Swedish Language and Culture [year-long sequence] 2004-2011                                        

First-Year Swedish Language and Culture [year-long sequence] 2004-2011

Scandinavian Film and Literature:

                Seductions in Scandinavian Literature and Film, Summers 2005, 2006                                                 

 

University of Washington

Department of Scandinavian Studies, 2000-2004

Swedish Language:

Intensive summer courses, First-Year Swedish Language, Summers 2002, 2004

First-Year Swedish Language and Culture [year-long sequence] 2000-2004

Second-Year Swedish Language and Culture, Spring 2003

 

Nordic Heritage Museum

Seattle Washington, 2000-2002    

Introduction to Swedish, for members of the community

 

TEACHING INTERESTS

Children’s Culture in Scandinavia Intro to Swedish Literature Literature of the Modern Breakthrough Gender and Scandinavian Culture Scandinavian Design in Context: IKEA	Globalization in Nordic Film and Literature Film, Marriage, and Melodrama in Scandinavia Scandinavian Theater and Performance Scandinavian Modernities and Gender Translation: Theory and Practice

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SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Facilitator, SASS Women’s Caucus (Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study): 2016-present

President, ASTRA (Association of Swedish Teachers and Researchers in America): 2016-present

Vice President, ASTRA (Association of Swedish Teachers and Researchers in America): 2013-2016

Program committee co-chair (with Lena Karlström)

Coordinated program for ASTRA’s (Association for Swedish Teachers and Researchers of America) annual symposium: 22-24 October 2015

Program committee co-chair (with Ursula Lindqvist)

Coordinated program for ASTRA’s (Association for Swedish Teachers and Researchers of America) annual symposium: 10-12 October 2013

Conference co-organizer, co-chair of reception committee

Coordinated conference receptions, managed undergraduate volunteers, aided in fundraising and advertising efforts for the first International Berkeley Conference on Silent Cinema: Cinema Across Media: The 1920s, 24-26 February 2011

Reviewer, Scandinavica Journal

Fall 2016

Reviewer, Lambda Nordica Journal

Spring 2016

Reviewer, Edinburgh University Press

Winter 2015

Reviewer, Continuum Press

Spring 2013

Research assistant

Collaborated with James Schamus, Focus Features and Columbia University Film Department on his monograph, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud: The Moving Word, 2005-6

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SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

Graduate advising           

Dissertation committee member: Elizabeth Howard, Comparative Literature

Qualifying exams: Iida Pöllänen, Comparative Literature

College of Arts and Sciences advisor for undeclared students        

University of Oregon, 2013-2015

Senator

Department of Scandinavian Studies, Graduate and Professional Student Senate University of Washington, 2000-2002

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SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY

Departmental liaison

Nordic Film Series (a community film series), University of Oregon, 2014-2016

Host and interviewer

Coordinated screening of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest and led post-screening discussion with filmmaker Daniel Alfredson, UC Berkeley, May 2011

Film archive volunteer

Provided live subtitling services (Swedish to English) for the Ingrid Bergman Retrospective, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley California, November - December 2009

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CERTIFICATION

ACTFL Oral Proficiency Tester  

March 2016

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AFFILIATIONS

ASTRA (Association of Swedish Teachers and Researchers in America)

Modern Language Association

Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study

Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Lundensiska Litteratursällskapet, Lund University, Sweden

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LANGUAGES

• Swedish: near-native speaking, reading, writing
• Danish: near-native reading; advanced speaking, writing
• Norwegian: near-native reading, advanced oral comprehension
• Spanish: proficiency in reading, intermediate conversational abilities
• German: proficiency in reading, intermediate conversational abilities
• French: proficiency in reading, beginner conversational abilities
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Recent courses: Aesthetics and Politics of the Avantgarde; Drama und Recht; Representations of Terror; Poetic Realism; Sexuality; War, Violence, Trauma