Monika Zagar

• Specialties
• Publications
• Activities
• Awards
• Courses

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