Placement
 
The Department of Scandinavian has had an excellent track record over the past ten years in the placement of recent Ph.Ds in teaching positions. Dissertation topics range from medieval to modern, from the strictly literary and historical to more interdisciplinary subjects. Since 1991, Scandinavian Department students have produced the following dissertations and have been hired in the following positions:
 


Sandberg, Mark Bennion. Missing Persons: Spectacle and Narrative in Late Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia. Filed 1991.
Hired as a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago. Now an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Tangherlini, Timothy Roland. Interpreting Legend: Evald Tang Kristensen's Legend Informants and their Repertoires. Filed 1992.
Hired as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Scandinavian Section. Now an Associate Professor at UCLA.

Borovsky, Zoe Patrice. Rocking the Boat: Women in Old Norse Literature. Filed 1994.
Hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Oregon.

Zagar, Monika. Ideological Clowns in the Fiction of Dag Solstad. Filed 1994.
Hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Now an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota.

Olmstead, Charles Maxwell. An Introduction to Oddr Snorrason's Olafs saga Tryggvasonar. Filed 1998.
Hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Segerberg, Ebba Filippa. Nostalgia, Narrative, and Modernity in Swedish Silent Cinema. Filed 1999.
Hired as Swedish Lecturer in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where she is currently teaching.

Stern, Michael Jay. Strindberg's Encounter with Nietzsche: The Conflation of Autobiography and History. Filed 2000.
Hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Oregon, where he is currently teaching.

Oxfeldt, Elisabeth. Orientalism on the Periphery: The Cosmopolitan Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Danish and Norwegian Literature. Filed Spring 2002.
Hired as a "Universitetslektor" in Danish Literature at the University of Oslo, beginning Fall 2002.

Buus, Stephanie. Travel, Translation, and Self in Scandinavian Travel Accounts of the Napoleonic Era. Filed 2002.
Awarded a post-doctoral research fellowship at Aarhus University's Center for European Cultural Studies as part of the project "Konstruktionen af Norden, 1700-1830: Utopi og Distopi."

Wichmann, Sonia. Truths About Women: Self-Representation as Fiction and Testimony in the Diaries of Victoria Benedictsson, Aino Kallas, and Elin Wagner. Filed 2005.

Kaplan, Merrill. The Irruption of the Past in four texts in Flateyjarbók. Filed 2006.
Hired as an Assistant Professor of Folklore and Scandinavian Studies in the Departments of English and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University, where she is currently teaching.

 
 

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