Scandinavian Program
People
Anna Westerståhl Stenport
Director of the Scandinavian Program
Office Hrs Spring 2009: Tu Thu 2-3.30 PM, and by appt.
3109 FLB
E-mail: aws@illlinois.edu
Spring 2009 courses:
SCAN463: Ibsen in Translation
About Anna...
Anna Westerståhl Stenport pursued her undergraduate education and M.A in Comparative Literature and French at Uppsala University, Sweden, and received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (2004). Before joining the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Dr. Stenport taught Scandinavian and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. She holds zero-time appointments as assistant professor in 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 has completed a manuscript on August Strindberg and literary setting in transnational European modernism and co-edited a volume of scholarship on Strindberg and gender theory (Det gäckande könet: Strindberg och genusteori, Symposion 2006). She is currently writing a book on contemporary Swedish film director Lukas Moodysson, under contract with the University of Washington Press Nordic Film Classics series, and exploring a comparative analysis of the cultural geography of recent Swedish, Danish, and German film. Anna teaches courses on Scandinavian literature, film, culture, and drama; she has also taught courses on Crime Fiction, European decadence, German film, Old Norse prose narration, American Cultures, and post-colonial and feminist theory.
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/2007/strindberg/
Corina Lacatus
Visiting instructor
Office: 3117 FLB
Office Hrs: T 10-12 & 1-2
E-mail: clacatus@uiuc.edu
Spring 2009 courses:
Scan 102 Beginning Scandinavian II (Swedish)
Scan 104 Intermediate Scandinavian II (Swedish)
Scan 215 Madness, Myth and Murder