Prof. Susan Brantly recently authored: The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era. This volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past. How does an author’s nationality or gender impact their artistic choices? To what extent can historical novels appeal to a …
B. Venkat Mani researches and teaches migration: of human beings and forms of refuge and exile, and migration of ideas through libraries, books, and digital media. He is the author of Cosmopolitical Claims (2007) and Recoding World Literature (2017) and co-editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature (2018). He is currently working on a …
Manon van de Water, Professor and Chair for the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic, has been selected to receive AATE’s Judith Kase Cooper Honorary Research Award in recognition of her lifetime of significant contributions to the fields of theatre education and theatre for young people. She will be recognized at this year’s AATE conference …
From the interview page: Sunday was the fifth anniversary of the death of Václav Havel, the Czech dissident who led the Velvet Revolution and went on to spend nearly 13 years as president. But before he became a politician, Havel was, of course, a playwright, and it is just his literary work that is the …
Professor Emeritus Harald Naess was the guiding force of the Scandinavian Studies Department for 32 years, from 1959 until his retirement in 1991. He was the fourth Norwegian professor in the Department’s long history, succeeding Einar Haugen who hand-picked Harald Naess as his replacement when he was called to Harvard. Haugen later said and Harald’s …
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections gives awards to authors of books, articles or recording liner notes, recognizing those who have published outstanding work in recorded sound research.
Hans Adler’s research focuses on a scholarly edition of the works in 10 volumes of the Swiss 18th-century philosopher Johann Georg Sulzer. The edition is co-edited with his colleague Professor Elisabeth Décultot (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris/Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg). Hans spent time for this cooperation in Halle, Germany in October 2016.
UW German Professor, Mark Louden, received the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He was chosen as a scholar “who has notably contributed to international academic collaboration and cultural understanding.”
Halls-Bascom Professor of Scandinavian Studies, Tom DuBois, was inducted into the Finnish Academy of Sciences & Letters. He stated, ” I am both surprised and humbled by the gesture.”
David Natvig, a graduate student in the Nordic Program, recently worked with Folklore Village to document vinyl records they found in their collection.