CURRICULUM VITAE
Jan Ivar Sjåvik
Scandinavian Studies, Box
353420
University of Washington,
Seattle, WA 98195
Telephone: (206) 543-0654,
685-2551
E-mail:
sjavik@u.washington.edu
(Updated December 24, 2003)
EDUCATION
1974-79 Harvard University. A.M. 1976, Ph.D.
1979. Thesis: “Arne Garborg's Kristiania Novels: A Study in Narrative
Technique.”
1973-74 Brigham Young University. B.A. 1974,
magna cum laude.
1972 Univ.
of Trondheim, Norway. Examen Philosophicum, 1972.
ACADEMIC HONORS AND
FELLOWSHIPS
1996 Travel Grant from the Chicago
Humanities Center, Chicago, Illinois.
1995 Travel Grant from Nesna College,
Nesna, Norway.
1993 Summer
Research Grant from the Graduate School Fund, University of Washington.
1985 Publication
grant for Arne Garborgs Kristiania-romaner from NAVF, a Norwegian
governmental grant-giving agency.
1982 Summer
Research Grant from the University of Washington Graduate School.
1980 Travel
Grant from the Norwegian Information Service.
1976 The
Bernhard Blume Award for Graduate Study, granted by the Department of Germanic
Languages, Harvard University.
1974 The
Danforth Fellowship, a four-year award for graduate study.
EMPLOYMENT
1984-present Associate Professor of Scandinavian
at the University of Washington, Seattle.
1979-84 Assistant Professor of Scandinavian
at the University of Washington, Seattle.
1978-79 Instructor in Scandinavian at the
University of Washington, Seattle.
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY
Member of the Faculty Senate
(1981-82, 1991-93 and 2000-present), the Committee on Computer Literacy in the
College of Arts and Sciences (1983), the Adjudication Panel (1985-88), the
Graduations Committee of the College of Arts and Sciences (1984-85), the
Council on Teacher Education (1984-86), the Review Committee for the Department
of Speech Communication (1985-86), the Chair Search Committee for the
Department of Speech Communication (1985-87), the Faculty Council on
Instructional Quality (1986-88), the Center for the Humanities Executive
Committee (1987-88), the Committee to Revise the Evening Degree Program in the
Humanities (1991), the Chair Search Committee for the Germanics Department
(1992-93), the Senate Executive Committee (1992-93 and 2000-present), of grant
and fellowship applications review committees for the Graduate School (1986,
1992) and the College of Arts and Sciences (1993, 1994), and of the Chair
Search Committee for the Slavic Department (1997-98).
Chair of the Graduations Committee
of the College of Arts and Sciences (1985-87), and of the Foreign Languages
Field Committee of the College of Education (1984-86).
One of three candidates for the
position of Secretary to the Faculty of the University of Washington, 1999. One
of two candidates for the position of Vice Chair of the Faculty Senate at the
University of Washington, 2000.
Deputy Faculty Legislative
Representative, 2000-2002, which includes membership in the Faculty Senate, the
Senate Executive Committee, the Senate Committee on Planning and Budgeting, the
Special Committee on Legislative Matters, the Council of Faculty
Representatives, and the Faculty Councils on Faculty Affairs, Tri-Campus
Policy, Research, Community Relations, and University Facilities and Services.
Faculty Legislative Representative,
2002-2003, which includes the duties of the Deputy Faculty Legislative
Representative, with the addition of the responsibility for chairing the
Special Committee on Legislative Matters.
Co-chair, the Council of Faculty
Representatives, 2002-03.
SERVICE TO THE SCANDINAVIAN
DEPARTMENT
Acting Chair, Summer 1981, Summer
1991, and 1993-94.
Service as member and chair on a
variety of departmental committees, 1979-present.
Undergraduate adviser: Norwegian
majors, 1979-85; all majors, 1985-88 and 1994-95.
TA Coordinator, 1990-92 and 1994-95.
Graduate Program Coordinator,
1992-93 and 1998-2002.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Section
head, Scandinavian section at the PNCFL, 1979.
Section head, SASS Annual Meeting,
various years, most recently in 2000.
Secretary, Scandinavian section,
PAPC, 1991-92; Section chair, 1992-93.
Member, local arrangements
committee, PAPC, 1993.
Consultant to the production of
Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, at the Bathhouse Theatre, Seattle, 1985, and to
the production of Henrik Ibsen, The Lady from the Sea, at the Intiman
Theatre, Seattle, 2001.
External Examiner, Dept. of Comp.
Lit., U of British Columbia.
Manuscript referee, Scandinavian
Studies.
Manuscript referee, Studies in
Short Fiction.
Consultant, University of Nebraska
Press.
Consultant, Scandinavian Section,
UCLA.
Manuscript referee, PMLA.
Consultant, the Northwestern University Press.
Consultant, Microsoft Corp.
Member, local arrangements committee, SASS, 1999.
Consultant, Department of Scandinavian Studies, U. of
California, Berkeley.
Consultant, Department of Scandinavian Studies, U. of
Wisconsin.
Consultant, The Modern Language Association of America
(2003).
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS
The Society for the Advancement of
Scandinavian Study.
The International Association for
Scandinavian Studies.
The
Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages.
The
Norwegian Teachers Association of North America.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books:
Arne Garborgs Kristiania-romaner: En beretterteknisk studie. Oslo: Aschehoug, 1985.
Reading for the Truth: Rhetorical Constructions in Norwegian Fiction. Ms. under review.
Articles in Journals
and Books:
“Reading Arne Garborg’s Irony: Bondestudentar, Trætte mænd, Fred.” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 27 (2000). PEER REVIEW.
“Between Two Worlds: The Emigrant Novels of Ole E. Rølvaag.” In Wendy Griswold and Fredrik Engelstad, eds., Places Within, Places Beyond: Norwegian Regionalism in Literature. Oslo: Institute for Social Research, 1996, pp. 77-91.
“Religionen, ‘det andre’ og ‘den
andre’ hos O. E. Rølvaag og Alfred Hauge.” In Ole Karlsen and Renee Waara,
eds., “...etter Rølvaag har problema han stridde med, vorte til
verdsproblem...” Rapport fra Rølvaag-konferansen i Sandnessjøen 7. - 8. august
1995. Nesna: Høgskolen i Nesna, 1995, pp. 141-57.
“Rhetorical Manipulation in Maurits Hansen’s ‘Luren’.” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 66 (1994), pp. 521-32. PEER REVIEW.
“Bjørg Vik's Short Story 'Annekset': A Programmatic Statement from a Woman Writer.” Literature as Resistance and Counter-Culture: Papers from the 19th Study Conference of the International Association for Scandinavian Studies. Ed. Andras Masat (Budapest: Hungarian Association for Scandinavian Studies, 1993), pp. 506-11.
“A Rhetorical Approach to Three Norwegian Short Stories.” Selecta: Journal of the PNCFL, vol. 14 (1993), pp. 79-82. PEER REVIEW.
“Norwegian Literature, 1950-1990.” Harald Næss, ed., History of Norwegian Literature (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1993), pp. 277-334. PEER REVIEW.
“Presence and Absence in J. S. Welhaven, 'Den Salige'.” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 65 (1993), pp. 196-206. PEER REVIEW.
“Triangular
Structures in Knut Hamsun's Pan.” Pacific Coast Philology, vol. 27
(1992), pp. 117-23. PEER
REVIEW.
“Lesning som sentral trope i Knut
Hamsuns Pan,” Asmund Lien, ed., Modernismen i Skandinavisk litteratur
som historisk fenomen og teoretisk problem, (Trondheim: Nordisk institutt,
AVH, Universitetet i Trondheim, 1991), pp. 277-82.
“Dekonstruksjonskritikken i
Amerika,” Edda, vol. 85 (1985), pp. 25-47.
“A New
Psychological Novel, a New Narrative Technique, and Salvation through Art: Knut
Hamsun's Pan and the Artist's Quest for Recognition,” Selecta,
Journal of the PNCFL, vol. 4 (1983), pp. 94-100. PEER REVIEW.
“Alfred Hauges retorikk i Utstein
Kloster-syklusen,” Norsk Litterær Årbok, 1983, pp. 82-93.
“Language and Myth in Dag Solstad's Arild Asnes, 1970,” Pacific Coast Philology, vol. 18 (1983), pp. 30-36. PEER REVIEW.
“Hulda Bergersen, Arne Garborg and the Rhetoric of Hjaa ho mor,” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 55 (1983), pp. 134-48. PEER REVIEW.
“Alfred Hauge's Utstein Monastery Cycle,” World Literature Today, vol. 56 (1982), pp. 54-57.
“Arne Garborg: Trætte Mænd.
En retorisk og genetisk analyse,” Edda, vol. 82 (1982), pp. 1-22.
“Form and Theme
in Arne Garborg's Mannfolk and Hjaa ho Mor,” Selecta,
Journal of the PNCFL, vol. 1 (1980), pp. 87-90. PEER REVIEW.
“Intensjon og genre i Arne
Garborgs Bondestudentar,” Edda, vol. 78 (1978), pp. 333-39.
Articles in Reference
Works:
“Knut Faldbakken.” A 5000-word essay written for The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Norway volume, edited by Tanya Thresher (forthcoming).
Bibliographies for the entries on Henrik Ibsen, Brand, Peer Gynt, Rosmersholm, and When We Dead Awaken in Masterplots: Revised Edition (to be published by Salem Press).
“Jens Bjørneboe,” “Henrik Wergeland,” “Knut Hamsun,” “Tarjei Vesaas,” and “Dag Solstad,” in Bruce Murphy, ed, Benét’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.
“The Sailor-boy’s Tale.” Masterplots II: Short Story, Supplement. Ed. Frank N. Magill. (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Salem Press, 1996).
“Elizabeth Hardwick, Seduction and Betrayal,” “Isak Dinesen, Winter’s Tales.” and “Selma Lagerlöf, The Story of Gösta Berling.” Masterplots II: Women’s Literature. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Salem Press, 1995. Pp. 2005-09, 2474-77, and 2196-2200.
“Out of Africa.” Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography. Ed. Frank N. Magill. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1993), pp. 1367-70.
“Kjartan Fløgstad,” “Olav H. Hauge,” and “Dag Solstad,” Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, vol. 5, (New York: Ungar, 1993), pp. 226-27, 275-76, and 562-63.
“Knut Hamsun.” Magill's Survey of World Literature, (New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1993), pp. 823-30.
“Isak Dinesen.” Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Revised Edition. Ed. Frank N. Magill. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1993), pp. 734-43.
“Arne Garborg,” “Aasmund Olavsson Vinje,” “Jens Bjørneboe,” and “Alfred Hauge,” Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1990), pp. 63-64, 173-75, 221-22, and 645-47.
“Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun,” Magill's Literary Annual 1988, pp. 289-82.
“Gunnar Heiberg,” in Frank N. Magill, ed., Critical Survey of Drama: Foreign Language Series (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1986), vol. 3, pp. 892-97.
“Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson,” in Frank N. Magill, ed., Critical Survey of Drama: Foreign Language Series (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1986), vol. 1, pp. 213-21.
“Ludvig Holberg,” in Frank N. Magill, ed., Critical Survey of Drama: Foreign Language Series (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1986), vol. 3, pp. 944-52.
“August Strindberg,” Magill's Literary Annual 1985, pp. 32-37.
“A Doll's House,” “An Enemy of the People,” “Ghosts,” “Hedda Gabler,” “Peer Gynt,” “Growth of the Soil,” The Dow Jones Database, 1985 (electronic publication).
“Alfred Hauge,” in Frank N. Magill, ed., Critical Survey of Long Fiction: Foreign Language Series (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1984), vol. 2, pp. 797-804.
“Knut Hamsun,” in Frank N. Magill, ed., Critical Survey of Long Fiction: Foreign Language Series (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1984), vol. 2, pp. 765-77.
“August Strindberg,” in Frank N. Magill, ed., Critical Survey of Long Fiction: Foreign Language Series (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1984), vol. 4, pp. 1685-96.
“Arnulf Øverland,” Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Revised Edition, vol. 3 (New York: Ungar, 1983), pp. 448-49.
“A Barthes Reader,” Magill's Literary Annual 1983, pp. 44-48.
Book Reviews:
Review of Marte Hvam Hult, Framing a National Narrative: The Legend Collections of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, (Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2003), Scandinavian Studies (forthcoming).
Review of Kirsten Wechsel, Grenzüberschreitungen zwischen Realität und Fiktion: Engagierte Ästhetik bei Inger Christensen und Kjartan Fløgstad Palaestra 314. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 75 (2003), pp. 118-19.
Review of Aksel Sandemose, The Werewolf. Tr. Gustaf Lannestock. Harald S. Næss, introduction. (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002), World Literature Today, vol. 77 (2003), p. 145.
Review of Sigurd Hoel, Sinners in Summertime. Trans. Elizabeth Sprigge and Claude Napier. With an Afterword by Sverre Lyngstad (New York: Ig Publishing, 2002), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 75 (2003), pp. 126-27.
Review of Erik Fosnes Hansen, Tales of Protection (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002), World Literature Today, vol. 77 (2003), p. 144.
Review of Øystein Lønn, Ifølge Sofia (Oslo: Gyldendal, 2001), World Literature Today, vol. 76 (2002), pp. 208-09.
Review of Tor Ulven, Prosa i samling (Oslo: Gyldendal, 2001), World Literature Today, vol. 76 (2002), p. 209.
Review of Herbjørg Wassmo, Det sjuende møte (Oslo: Gyldendal, 2000), World Literature Today, vol. 75 (2001), p. 156.
Review of Knut Faldbakken, Frøken Snehvit (Oslo: Gyldendal, 2000), World Literature Today, vol. 75 (2001), p. 155.
Review of Jens Bjørneboe, Moment of Freedom, tr. Esther Greenleaf Murer (Chester Springs, Pennsylvania: Dufour Editions, 1999), and Powderhouse, tr. Esther Greenleaf Murer (Chester Springs, Pennsylvania: Dufour Editions, 2000), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 72 (2000), pp. 482-83.
Review of Arne Garborg, Weary Men. Tr. Sverre Syngstad. With an Afterword by Per Buvik (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern UP, 1999), Western Viking, April 14, 2000, p. 7.
Review of Henning
Howlid Wærp, Diktet natur. Natur og landskap hos Andreas Munch, Vilhelm Krag og Hans Børli (Oslo: Aschehoug, 1997), Scandinavian
Studies, vol. 71 (1999), pp. 254-55.
Review of Terje Holtet Larsen. Sander (Oslo. Kolon/Gyldendal Norsk. 1998), World Literature Today, vol. 73 (1999), p. 541.
Review of Inger
Jahr. Samfunnskritikk og
moralisering. Implisitt og eksplisitt tendens i sentrale deler av Torborg Nedreaas’
forfatterskap.
Etterord ved Øystein Rottem (Oslo: Novus, 1997) Scandinavian Studies
(forthcoming).
Review of Knut Faldbakken, Eksil
(Oslo: Gyldendal, 1997), World Literature Today, vol. 72 (1998), pp.
640-41.
Review of Herbjørg Wassmo, Karnas arv (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1997), World Literature Today, vol. 72 (1998), pp. 395-96.
Review of Otto Hageberg, Forboden
kjærleik: Spenningsmønster i Olav Duuns dikting (Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget,
1996), and Otto Hageberg, Olav Duun: Biografiske og litteraturhistoriske
streiflys (Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, 1996), Standinavian Studies,
vol. 70 (1998), pp. 115-17.
Review of Nikolaj Frobenius, Latours katalog (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1996), World Literature Today, vol. 71 (1997), pp. 607-08.
Review of Knut
Faldbakken. Når jeg ser
deg (Oslo:
Gyldendal, 1996), World Literature Today, vol. 71 (1997), p. 403.
Review of Otto
Hageberg. På spor etter meining. Essay om
samtidslitteratur og om litterær tradisjon (Oslo: Landslaget for norskundervisning (LNU)
and J. W. Cappelens Forlag A.S., 1994), Scandinavian Studies, vol.
69(1997), pp. 125-26.
Review of Harald S. Næss, ed. Knut Hamsuns brev 1896-1907 (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1995), candinavian Studies, vol. 68 (1996), pp. 394-95.
Review of Terje Stigen, Allegretto (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1995), World Literature Today, vol. 70 (1996), p. 714.
Review of Johannes Heggland, Jordparadiset. Kunnskapstreet. (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1994), World Literature Today, vol. 69 (1995), p.
Review of Tor Ulven, Avløsning. (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1993), World Literature Today vol. 68 (1994), pp. 835-36.
Review of Knut Faldbakken, Ormens år. (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1993), World Literatue Today, vol. 68 (1994), p. 588-89.
Review of Stig Holmås, Kondoren (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1993), World Literatue Today, vol. 68 (1994), p. 834.
Review of Edvard Beyer, Irene Iversen, Arild Linneberg, and Morten Moi, eds., Norsk litteraturkritikks historie 1770-1940. Vol. II: 1848-1870, by Arild Linneberg (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1982), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 65 (1993), pp. 454-55.
Review of Herbjørg Wassmo, Lykkens sønn (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1992), World Literature Today, vol. 67 (1993), p. 623.
Review of Johannes Heggland, Det stutte livet (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1992), World Literature Today, vol. 67 (1993), pp. 399-400.
Review of Finn Alnæs, Restdjevelens karneval (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1992), World Literature Today, vol. 67 (1993), pp. 197-98.
Review of Knut
Faldbakken. Til verdens
ende (Oslo:
Gyldendal, 1991), World Literature Today, vol. 66 (1992), p. 355.
Review of Claes Ahlund. Den skandinaviska universitetsromanen 1877-1890. Skrifter utgivna av Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen vid Uppsala universitet 26. (Uppsala/Stockholm: Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen vid Uppsala universitet/Almqvist & Wiksell, 1990), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 64 (1992), pp. 282-84.
Review of Edvard
Beyer. Forskning og
formidling (Oslo:
Aschehoug, 1990), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 64 (1992), pp. 153-55.
Review of Edvard
Beyer, Irene Iversen, Arild Linneberg and Morten Moi, eds. Norsk litteraturkritikks historie
1770-1940. Vol.
I: 1770-1848, by Edvard Beyer and Morten Moi. (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1990), Scandinavian
Studies, vol. 63 (1991), pp. 537-39.
Review of Edvard Hoem. The Ferry Crossing. Trans. with an Afterword by Frankie Denton Shackelford (New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 63 (1991), pp. 395-96.
Review of Bjørn
Tysdal. Maurits Hansens
fortellerkunst
(Aschehoug, Oslo, 1988), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 63 (1991), pp.
376-77.
Review of Frøydis Hertzberg, et
al. I klartekst. Festskrift til Bernt Fossestøl på 60-årsdagen (Oslo:
Novus, 1988), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 63 (1991), pp. 137-38.
Review of Sverre Lyngstad, ed., Norway. Review of National Literature 12. Scandinavian Studies, vol. 60 (1988), p. 92.
Review of Sverre Lyngstad, Sigurd Hoel's Fiction: Cultural Criticism and Tragic Vision (London and Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984), Scandinavica, vol. 25 (1987), pp. 66-67.
Review of Mary Kay Norseng, Sigbjørn Obstfelder (Boston: Twayne, 1983), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 57 (1985), p. 352.
Review of Dag Larsen, Svevninger (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1983), World Literature Today, vol. 59 (1985), p. 114.
Review of Sigbjørn Hølmebakk, Fredlaustona (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1983), World Literature Today, vol. 58 (1984), p. 647.
Review of Rolf Nyboe Nettum, ed., I diktningens brennpunkt (Oslo: Aschehoug, 1982), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 55 (1983), pp. 280-82.
Review of Anders Bye, Mannen som ville bli menneske (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1982), World Literature Today, vol. 57 (1983), p. 475.
Review of Knut Faldbakken, Bryllupsreisen (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1982), World Literature Today, vol. 57 (1983), p. 470.
Review of Philip Houm, En mann forut for vår tid (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1982), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 55 (1983), p. 197.
Review of Tor Obrestad, Sjå Jæren, gamle Jæren (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1982), World Literature Today, vol. 57 (1983), p. 306.
Review of Finn Alnæs, Dynamis (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1982), World Literature Today, vol. 57 (1983), pp. 300-301.
Review of Johan Borgen, Lillelord (New York: New Directions, 1982), World Literature Today, vol. 57 (1983), pp. 118-19.
Review of Peter R. Holm, Utvalgte dikt (Oslo: Aschehoug, 1981), World Literature Today, vol. 56 (1982), p. 530.
Review of Finn Carling, Visirene (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1981), World Literature Today, vol. 56 (1982), p. 527.
Review of Arild Nyquist, Abborfiske i Norge (Oslo: Aschehoug, 1981), World Literature Today, vol. 56 (1982), p. 353.
Review of Walter Baumgartner, Triumph des Irrealismus (Neumunster: Wachholtz, 1979), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 54 (1982), pp. 178-79.
Review of Sveinung Time, et al., Å lese Garborg i dag (Oslo: Aschehoug, 1981), World Literature Today, vol. 56 (1982), p. 359.
Review of Nils Johan Rud, Breen blomstrer (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1980), World Literature Today, vol. 55 (1981), p. 691.
Review of Jan Erik Vold, Det norske syndromet
(Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1980), World Literature Today, vol. 55
(1981), p. 331.
Review of Øystein Rottem, ed., Søkelys
på Knut Hamsuns 90-årsdiktning (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1979), World
Literature Today, vol. 55 (1981), p. 128.
Review of Atle Kittang and Asbjørn
Aarseth, eds., Hermeneutikk og litteratur (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget,
1979), World Literature Today, vol. 55 (1981), pp. 119-20.
Review of Jens Bjørneboe, Bøker
og mennesker (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1979), World Literature Today, vol.
55 (1981), p. 119.
Review of Edvard Hoem, Der storbåra bryt (Oslo: Samlaget, 1979), World Literature Today, vol 54 (1980), p. 652.
Review of Finn Carling, Tårnseileren (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1979), World Literature Today, vol. 54 (1980), p. 652.
Review of Bjørg Vik, En
håndfull lengsel (Oslo: Cappelen, 1979), World Literature Today,
vol. 54 (1980), p. 646.
Review of Bjarte Birkeland, Atle
Kittang, and Idar Stegane, Dikt og artiklar om dikt. Til Olav H. Hauge
på 70-årsdagen (Oslo: Noregs Boklag, 1979), World Literature
Today, vol. 54 (1980), p. 448.
Review of Alfred Hauge, Leviathan (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1979), World Literature Today, vol. 54 (1980), p. 445.
Review of Jan Carlsen, Soria Moria (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1979), World Literature Today, vol. 54 (1980), p. 445.
Review of Steinar Lem, Grenseovergang (Oslo: Aschehoug, 1979), World Literature Today, vol. 54 (1980), p. 294.
Review of Gudleiv Bø, ed., Søkelys
på Arne Garborgs bøker om Hove-ætta (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget,
1978), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 52 (1980), pp. 92-93.
Review of Einar Haugen, Ibsen's Drama: Author to Audience (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 52 (1980), pp. 90-92.
Review of Torunn Ystaas Sanborn, Mannsrolle og kvinnesyn hjå Agnar Mykle. Ein studie i personlegdomsforming i Lasso rundt fru Luna og Sangen om den røde rubin. (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1977), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 51 (1979), pp. 83-84.
Review of Åse Hiorth Lervik, Menneske
og miljø i Cora Sandels diktning. En studie over stil og motiv (Oslo:
Gyldendal, 1977), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 51 (1979), pp. 81-83.
Review of Harald
Bache-Wiig, Gunnar Foss, Harald Hellum, Tove Indregard and Åsfrid Svensen, Frå
vesle Daniel til student Braut. Individ, samfunn og tilpassing i Arne Garborgs Bondestudentar (Oslo:
Aschehoug, 1976), Scandinavian Studies, vol. 50 (1978), pp. 439-41.
Conference Papers:
“Memories of Nordland in Ole E. Rølvaag’s Giants in the Earth,” Western Humanities Alliance Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 17, 2003.
“The Reality/Appearance Distinction in Jonas Lie, Trold,” SASS, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2, 2003.
“Donald Davidson, Irony, and Arne Garborg’s Mannfolk,” SASS, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 4, 2002.
“Truth and Justification in Arne Garborg, ‘Ein Fritenkjar,’” SASS, Chicago, Illinois, May 2001.
“Curing the Text: On Interpreting Hedda Gabler and Fruen fra havet,” SASS, Madison, Wisconsin, May 4-7, 2000.
“Overcoming Knut Faldbakken’s Epistemology.” SASS, Seattle, WA, May 1, 1999.
“The Suicidal Nora Helmer.” SASS, Tempe, Arizona, April 30- May 3, 1998.
“Kjartan Fløgstad’s Early Postmodernism in ‘Riksvegen vestover’.” SASS, Williamsburg, Virginia, May 1-4, 1996.
“Ole E. Rølvaag and the Idea of a Regional Literature.” Nation and Representation: The Spring Conference of the American Studies Colloquium, University of Washington, Seattle, April 18-19, 1996.
“Between Two Worlds: The Emigrant Novels of Ole E. Rølvaag,” Conference on Literary Regionalism: The Case of Norway, University of Chicago Humanities Center, February 9-11, 1996.
“Religionen, ‘det andre’ og ‘den
andre’ hos O. E. Rølvaag og Alfred Hauge,” Rølvaag Conference, Sandnessjøen,
Norway, August 7-8, 1995.
“The Theme of Identity in Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt: A Rhetorical Perspective,” SASS, Pullman, Washington, April 27-30, 1995.
“A Rhetorical Approach to Three Norwegian Short Stories,” PNCFL, Eugene, Oregon, May 7, 1993.
“The Theme of Repression in Henrik Ibsen, Vildanden,” SASS, Austin, Texas, April 22-24, 1993.
“Scenes of Seduction in Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck and When We Dead Awaken,” PAPC, San Diego, California, November 1992.
“Romany and Religion: The Public and Private Spheres in Arne Garborg's Novel Fred,” the Western Humanities Conference, Seattle, WA, October 17, 1992.
“Bjørg Vik's Short Story 'Annekset': A Programmatic Statement from a Woman Writer,” IASS, Budapest, Hungary, August 2-7, 1992.
“Knut Faldbakken's Novel Bryllupsreisen: Crossing the Boundary of Art Through Striking Rhetoric,” SASS, Minneapolis, MN, April 30-May 3, 1992.
“Triangular Structures in Knut Hamsun's Pan,” PAPC, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 15-17, 1991.
“The Rhetorical Structure of Maurits Hansen's 'Luren',” SASS, Amherst, MA, May 2-5, 1991.
“Skrift som sentral trope i Knut
Hamsuns Pan,” IASS, Trondheim, Norway, July 31, 1990.
“Reading for the Content: Unlocking Terje Stigen's 'Kisten',” SASS, Madison WI, May 5, 1990.
“The Anxiety of Interpretation in J. S. Welhaven, 'Den Salige',” PNCFL, Eugene, OR, May 6, 1988.
“Authorial Control of the Reading Process: The Case of Alexander Kielland's 'Karen',” SASS, Eugene, OR, April 29, 1988.
“Maurits Hansen's 'Novellen' and the Limits of Referential Reading,” AASSC, Vancouver, B.C., June 1, 1983.
“Knut Hamsun's Pan and the Artist's Quest for Recognition,” PNCFL, Eugene, OR, May 13, 1983.
“Two Ways of Reading Knut Hamsun's Pan,” SASS, Minneapolis, MN, May 6, 1983.
“Language and Myth in Dag Solstad's Arild Asnes, 1970,” PAPC, Eugene, OR, November 13, 1982.
“Narrative Communication in Alfred Hauge's Mysterium,” SASS, Nashville, TN, May 1, 1982.
“The Aesthetics of Bestiality: Author and Narrator in Jens Bjørneboe's Frihetens øyeblikk,” SASS, Albuquerque, NM, May 2, 1981.
“Arne Garborg's Trætte Mænd: The Growth of the Text,” SASS, Ann Arbor, MI, May 3, 1980.
“Form and Theme in Arne Garborg's Mannfolk and Hjaa ho Mor,” PNCFL, Seattle, WA, April 18, 1980.
“Narrative Situation in Arne Garborg's Trætte Mænd,” MLA, New York, Dec. 29, 1978.
“Intention and Genre in Arne Garborg's Bondestudentar,” SASS, Amherst, Mass., May 5, 1978.
DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED
Stefan
Bergström, “Fredrik Cederborgh as Social and Cultural Commentator: A Study of
Humor and Satire in his Prose Works.” Ph.D., Scandinavian Studies, 1990.
Ellen
Rebecca Rees, “Cora Sandel, Norwegian Neo-Realist or European Modernist?” Ph.D.
Scandinavian Studies, 1995.
Tanya
Thresher, “Seductive Strategies for Female Subjects: How Contemporary
Scandinavian Women Dramatists Represent Women on Stage.” Ph.D., Scandinavian
Studies, 1998.
Tara F.
Chace, “In Case of Emergency, Break Glass: Ontological Metamorphoses in
Norwegian and Finnish Postmodern Literature.” Ph.D., Scandinavian Studies,
2003.
Claudia
Berguson, “Challenging Authority: Saga, Gossip, Ballad and Legend as Narrative
Voices in Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter.” Ph.D., Scandinavian
Studies, 2003.
Kevin
Karlin, Ph.D., Scandinavian Studies (in process).
Gergana
May, Ph.D., Scandinavian Studies (in process).
Melissa
Gjellstad, Ph.D., Scandinavian Studies (in process).
Sharon
Berg. Ph.D, Scandinavian Studies (in process).