GNS Professor Susan Brantly was recently featured in the Star Tribune’s article “Two plays opening this weekend ask what’s next for Nora of ‘A Doll’s House’.” The article discusses two new plays being performed this …
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Dr. Scott Mellor Featured in Swedish Press
Making the Most of Winter
Are you making the most out of your winter? GNS professor Claus E. Andersen talked to NBC15 News about the idea of “hygge” and what it means to embrace the winter months instead of fighting …
Scott Mellor presents at “The Formula in Oral Poetry and Prose Conference”
On December 7th Scott Mellor presented his paper titled Oral-Formula and Formulaic Syntax in The Poetic Edda revisited at The Formula in Oral Poetry and Prose Conference in Tartu, Estonia. The symposium’s aim was to discuss …
Scandinavian Art and Literature, Prof. Susan Brantly
Susan Brantly, Birgit Baldwin Professor of Scandinavian Literature at UW-Madison, provides an overview of Scandinavian art, artists, and authors from the Baroque period in the 1600s to the late 20th century postmodernists. Click the link …
Professor Jim Leary Earns Grammy Nomination
Jim Leary, UW-Madison professor emeritus of folklore and Scandinavian studies, has been nominated for a second time for a Grammy Award. This time he was nominated in the “Best Album Notes” category for his work on …
Warming Up to Hygge
If you’ve ever sought respite from Wisconsin’s frigid winter in a cozy blanket, hot drink or conversation around a crackling fire, you’ve experienced hygge. Pronounced “hoo-guh” or “hue-guh,” with no direct translation in English, hygge is …
BBC Radio 3: Sunday Feature With Professor Thomas DuBois
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough enters the forests of our imagination, looking for stories. Alternative realities, holy quests and fairytales hidden among the glories of the Autumn forest. Despite our evolution in the African rainforests, Eleanor wonders …
Norway Summer Abroad Video Project
Bryce Gilder, a student of Peggy Hager, created this video diary of his adventures while studying abroad in Norway in the ISS Oslo Study Program. He filmed his experiences each day and used this project …
Kokko and Aurinko: A Finnish-American Juhannus Festival
John Prusynski, Nordic Graduate Student of UW-Madison, wrote this feature for a photo essay in the summer fieldwork course: Folklore 490: Field Methods and the Public Presentation of Folklore in June of 2018. He talks …