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Monika Zagar

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Curriculum Vitae
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Specialties
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Specialties

  • Scandinavian women writers
  • Norwegian language and literature
  • modernism in Scandinavia
  • Knut Hamsun and Dag Solstad
  • feminist theory
  • contemporary Norway
Publications
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Publications

  • How Knut Hamsun Imagined Juliane and Her Speech: Hamsun's Play Livet ivold: Norvick Press, Zagar, Monika, Proceedings from the "Gender, Power, Text: Scandinavian Culture in the Twentieth Century", 2004.
  • Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance.. University of Washington Press, Zagar, Monika, 2009.
  • Legacies of Modernism - Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950. Patrizia C. McBride, Richard W. McCormick, Palgrave Macmillan, Zagar, Monika, 2007.
Activities
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Activities

Professional

  • Director of Organizing Committee for SASS 2003: Responsible for site selection, paper selections, financial planning, session organization. Spring 2002 - June 2003
  • Director, Center for Scandinavian Studies: Director and Administrator of the Center; Organizer of conferences, speakers and workshops; Community outreach. August 2001 - January 2004

Research

  • Race and ethnicity in Scandinavian literature and film: Analysis of texts written by transnational adoptees to Scandinavia, portrayal of transnation adoptees in Scandinavia. 2000 - - none
  • Contemporary Scandinavian Literature and Culture none - none
Awards
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Awards

  • McKnight Summer Research Fellowship, June 1997 - August 1997
  • American Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship, January 2005 - June 2005
Courses
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Courses

  • Scandinavians and Their Art at the Turn of the Century
  • Scandinavian Fiction from 1890 to Present
  • Introduction to Scandinavia
  • Images of Scandinavia in Art, Film and Literature
  • Advanced Norwegian
  • Women Writers of Scandinavia
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