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Biography
Anna Westerståhl Stenport is a native of Sweden’s Göteborg. She pursued her undergraduate education and M.A in Comparative Literature and French at Uppsala University. She received her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, with the dissertation 'Making Space: Stockholm, Paris, and the Urban Prose of Strindberg and his Contemporaries.' Before joining the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Dr. Stenport taught Scandinavian and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley; she has also studied at the University of Georga in Athens, GA, and has lived in Victoria, B.C., Canada. She holds zero-time appointments as assistant professor in the Departments of Cinema Studies, Comparative and World Literature, Gender and Women's Studies, and International Studies.
Anna’s research interests center on the two most recent turn of the centuries and Scandinavian, German, and French literary and geographical relations. She is completing a manuscript on August Strindberg's city narration in Swedish and French about Stockholm and Paris, while exploring the terrain of her next book: a comparative analysis of the cultural geography of recent Swedish and Danish film. Anna teaches courses on Scandinavian literature, film, culture, drama, and history; she has also taught courses on European decadence, German film, detective fiction, Old Norse prose narration, and post-colonial and feminist theory. Anna has published several articles on August Strindberg’s drama and prose, as well as on gender relations in late nineteenth-century fiction about Stockholm. She is the co-editor of a collected volume of scholarship, called Det gäckande könet: Strindberg och genusteori [The Vexing Sex: Strindberg and Gender Theory], published by the Swedish academic press Symposion.
Read the article "Rebel Writer" about Anna's research on August Strindberg, published in the Univeristy of Illinois College News: http://www.las.uiuc.edu/news/2007spring/07feb_strindberg.html
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Publications
Book/edited collection:
Det gäckande könet: Strindberg och genusteori [The Vexing Sex: Strindberg and Gender Theory]. Co-editor with Anna Cavallin (Stockholm/Stehag: Symposion, 2006).
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:
“From Arsonists and Bastards to Vampires and Zombies: Urban Spatio-Pathologies in Strindberg’s Chamber Plays.” Forthcoming in Studies in the Literary Imagination, 40:1 (2007). Special issue on Scripting Urban Cultures.
“Bodies Under Assault. Nation and Immigration in Henning Mankell’s Faceless Killers.” Forthcoming in Scandinavian Studies, spring 2007.
“Estetik, ironi och emotioners fysiologi: Om Göran Tunströms roman Juloratoriet.” Forthcoming in TijdSchrift voor Skandinavistiek, 28:1 (2007).
“Swedish Women’s City Writing and Anna Branting’s Lena: Complexities of Voice, Vision, Divorce, and Desire.” Forthcoming in Scandinavica 2007:1.
“The Sexonomics of Et Dukkehjem: Money, the Domestic Sphere, and Prostitution.” Edda, 106:4 (2006), 339-353. Special issue on Henrik Ibsen.
“Imagining a New Stockholm: Strindberg’s Gamla Stockholm and the Construction of Metropolitan Space.” Scandinavian Studies, 74:4 (2002), 483-504.
Book chapters:
“Inledning. Från kvinnohat till maskulinitetskris: Strindberg som genuskonstruktion.” Det gäckande könet: Strindberg och genusteori, ed. Anna Cavallin and Anna Westerståhl Stenport (Stockholm/Stehag: Symposion, 2006), 7-15.
“Röda rummet som nationsbygge.” Strindbergiana 19, ed. Birgitta Steene (Stockholm: Atlantis, 2004), 161-169.
“Writing the City: Women Novelists, Gendered Spatiality, and Authoritative Voice in Early Twentieth-Century Stockholm.” Gender and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Scandinavia, ed. Helena Forsas-Scott (Norwich, UK: Norvik, 2004), 93-107.
Selected Translations, Book reviews, Review Essays, and Varia:
Marilyn Johns Blackwell. “Empirism, optik och perspektiv på genus i Fadren.” Det gäckande könet: Strindberg och genusteori, ed. Anna Cavallin and Anna Westerståhl Stenport (Stockholm/Stehag: Symposion 2006), 275-294. Translation of scholarly article from English to Swedish.
Lars Granild. ”Att äta eller ätas. Det är frågan!” Antropologi og poetik i August Strindbergs selvbiografiske roman En dåres försvarstal. Odense: Syddansk universitetsforlag, 2006. Forthcoming in Scandinavian Studies 79:1 (2007). Book review.
With Helena M. Hall. “Teaching about Scandinavian Culture in the American K-12 Curriculum.” Forthcoming in Illinois International Review 4:1 (2007).
“Stoppa listmanin.” Kulturdebatt. Dagens Nyheter, August 13 2006. Essay.
Anna Nordlund. Selma Lagerlöfs underbara resa genom den svenska litteraturhistorien 1891-1996, (Stockholm/Stehag: Symposion, 2005). Scandinavian Studies 78:1 (2006), 102-104. Book review.
Olsson, Ulf. Jag blir galen. Strindberg, vansinnet, vetenskapen. Stockholm: Symposion, 2002. Scandinavian Studies 75:4 (2003), 464-468. Book review.
Fjelkestam, Kristina. Ungkarlsflickor, kamrathustrur och manhaftiga lesbianer. Modernitetens litterära gestalter i mellankrigstidens Sverige. Stockholm: Symposion, 2002. Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift, 1-2/2003, 95-99. Book review.
Ryan, Marie-Laure. Narrative as Virtual Reality. Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2001. Svenska Dagbladet, January 2001. Review essay.
Crary, Jonathan. Suspensions of Perception. Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. Svenska Dagbladet, October 2000. Review essay.
Marcus, Sharon. Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century England and France. Berkeley & Los Angeles: UC Press, 1999. Svenska Dagbladet, July 1999. Review essay.
Selected Conference Presentations:
11th International Ibsen Conference, Oslo, August 2006. “Ibsen’s Business: Commercial Rhetoric and Gendered Economies.”
Denmark and the Black Atlantic, Copenhagen, May 2006, and The Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies, Portland, May 2005. “Nella Larsen’s Quicksand: Copenhagen, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black Atlantic,” co-presenter with Arne Lunde.
Modern Language Association (MLA), 2003. “Claudine in the Metropolis: A Comparative Perspective.” Colette Special Session
Modern Language Association (MLA), 2003. “Synaesthecies, Internationalism, and Gender Equality: Claës Lundin’s Oxygen and Aromasia.” Science Fiction Special Session.
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), 2003. “Subjecting the Metropolis: Strindberg between Paris and Stockholm.”
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies (SASS), 2003. “Are There Selves in Outer Space? Strindberg, Breton, and the Surrealist Imagination.”
Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Culture, University College, London, UK, 2002. “Reconfiguring Urban Modernity: Anna Branting, Elin Wägner and the fin-de-siècle city.”
The International Strindberg Society, Berlin, 2001. “The Tableaux de Paris and Strindberg’s Old Stockholm: Classifying Stockholm as Paris.” 15th International Strindberg Conference, Berlin, Germany.
Panel Organizer:
“Strindberg and Gender Studies.” Two panels. SASS, 2004.
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