Rachel Bott
Scandinavian Studies
Graduate Student, Nordic Student Representative
Languages: Swedish
Biography
Area(s) of Study: Late Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavian Popular Culture, Scandinavian Medieval Ballads
Pronouns: she/her
About: Rachel is a Ph.D. student in Scandinavian Studies, with a focus on late medieval and early modern Swedish popular culture. She completed her master’s thesis at Uppsala University, examining how certain Swedish supernatural ballads negotiated gender through depictions of hybridity and transformation. She is interested in how folklore, stories, and the Scandinavian medieval ballads communicate early modern conceptions of the body, gender, power, violence, and monstrosity.
Education:
– Uppsala University – M.A. in Early Modern History
– University of Texas at Austin – B.A. in German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies
Selected Publications:
- “Pale her cheeks they ought to be, it was only yesterday that she had been a tree.”: Gender, Power, and Hybridity in the Swedish Medieval Supernatural Ballads, M.A. Thesis, Uppsala University
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