Archive for September, 2012

Upcoming Scandinavian Crime Fiction Event: “Beyond The Girl”

From October 8-10, 2012, Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library will host a three-day event featuring four women writers from Nordic countries and a noted Swedish literary critic to focus on Nordic crime fiction by women. Scandinavian crime fiction has become a global phenomenon in part because of a girl with a dragon tattoo, but women writers […]

Welcome back! Thirty years!

The Department welcomes back all returning students and looks forward to the 2012-2013 academic year. We are happy to welcome Visiting Assistant Professor Carl Olsen, who is joining us from UC-Berkeley. Carl will teach two courses of Swedish this fall, a January term IEX course on Norse mythology, and this spring he will teach a […]