Lena Norrman

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Awards
• Courses Taught

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• M.A.: History and Nordic Languages, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 1998 -
• Ph.D.: Germanic Languages and Literatures, Scandinavian Studies, Medieval Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006 -
• B.A.: History, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 1997 -

Specialties

• Swedish language and literature
• Scandinavian history and culture
• Scandinavian immigrant culture
• Scandinavian folklore

Publications

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Publications

• Viking Women: The Narrative Role in Woven Tapestries. Cambria Press, 2008.
• “Visual and Verbal Art: Weaving and Poetry in Classical Greek and Old Norse Narratives,“ in Cosmos, Vol. 20, 2006. Pp. 121-151.
• “Visual Poetry: Weaving meaning in Old Norse Poetry,“ in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 1 (2005). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. Pp. 137-162.
• Review of Sigurd Bergmann. I begynnelsen í¤r bilden. En befriande bild-konst-kultur-teologi (Stockholm: Proprius Fí¶rlag AB, 2003), in Religion and the Arts 9-1/2 (2005). Pp. 141-142.

Awards

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Awards

Outstanding Service Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2008

SWEA (Swedish Women in Education Association) Scholarship in Literature, 2005

The Bernhard Blume Award. Departmental Prize for excellence in graduate work. Harvard University, 2001

Borgrí¤ttsfonderna, Sverige-Amerika Stiftelsen. For a year of study at Harvard University, 1998

Harvard Extension School. Acknowledgement of Distinction in Teaching, 2000-2005

Harvard University, Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2000-2001

Courses Taught

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Courses Taught

The Vikings; Saga, History, and Lore

Viking, Knights, and Reformers; German and European Culture and Controversies to 1700

Swe 1001/4001 - Beginning Swedish I

Swe 1002/4002 - Beginning Swedish II

Swe 1003/4003 - Intermediate Swedish I

Swe 1004/4004 - Intermediate Swedish II

Scandinavian 3011 - Readings, conversation and composition. Advanced language course

A Survey of Modern Scandinavian Literature

Scandinavian Folklore

Modern Sweden: The Consctruction of a Culture

Great Literary Works of Scandinavia

Emigration, Immigration, and Integration; The Nordic Experience