Richelle Wilson
Credentials: Scandinavian Studies
Position title: Graduate Student
Email: rwilson25@wisc.edu
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Languages: Swedish, French
Area(s) of Study: Contemporary literature and culture, public humanities, media.
Pronouns: she/her
About: Richelle Wilson is a PhD candidate in the Nordic unit, where she is writing a dissertation about IKEA. Her broad research interests include contemporary literature and film, labor studies, public humanities, and media.
During her time at UW, she has worked as a Swedish language instructor and literature TA, managing editor of the Edge Effects magazine and podcast, producer of A Public Affair at community radio station WORT 89.9 FM, and producer of season 1 of the Collegeland podcast. For the 2022–23 academic year, she has received a Mellon Public Humanities Graduate Fellowship to work with Midwest Environmental Advocates as a Public Narratives Fellow.
Education:
– Brigham Young University, MA in Comparative Literature
Courses Taught at UW:
– Swedish 211: Third-Semester Swedish (2018, 2017, 2016)
– Swedish 212: Fourth-Semester Swedish (2019, 2018, 2017)
– The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (online course) (2017, 2021)
– Nineteenth-Century Scandinavian Fiction (online course) (2017)
Select Awards:
- Mellon Public Humanities Graduate Fellowship (2022–2023)
- Wisconsin Humanities Mini Grant for Collegeland: A Podcast Featuring Untold Stories from Higher Education (2020–2021)
- Barbara Morgridge Fellowship in Scandinavian Studies (2019–2020)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science Online Instruction Certificate (2018)
- Swedish Institute scholarship for pedagogical workshop in Sweden (2016)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison Graduate School Fellowship (2015–2016)