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Office Hrs: W 3-4, R 11-12, and by appt. Fall 2008 courses: About Anna... 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. 12/7/06: UIUC's news bureau on Prof. Stenport's research: "Strindberg frustrated by 19th-century gender conventions, scholar says" Corinna Lacatus, Visiting instructor Office: 3117 FLB Fall 2008 courses:
Office: 3124 FLB
About Jon... Jon Sherman received his BA from the University of Vermont in 1994 with a double major in History and German. He received his MA from the German department of the University of Massachusetts in 1999, and started the Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in the same year. During his undergraduate years, Jon spent two years studying in Germany at the Universität Tübingen. After receiving his BA, he taught English as a foreign language for two years, the first year at a High School in Upper Austria and then he spent a year teaching English (and occasionally German) at a High School in Olesnica, Poland. Jon is currently working on his Ph.D. in medieval German literature and teaches German and Swedish here at UIUC.
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October 11, 2007
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