Cross-Dressing: Concepts of Gender and Self in the Films of Ingmar Bergman

Marilyn Johns Blackwell, Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Director of Swedish at Ohio State University, earned her Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1976. She is the author of three books on Swedish literature and film (Gender and Representation in the Films of Ingmar Bergman [1997], Persona: The Transcendent Image [1986], and C.J.L. Almqvist and Romantic Irony [1983]), and she is the editor of Structures of Influence: A Comparative Approach to August Strindberg [1981]. In addition to her books, Dr. Blackwell has published widely in North American and Scandinavian journals on Strindberg, Ibsen, Bergman, Vesaas and Dinesen. A distinguished literary scholar and popular teacher, she regularly teaches courses on the films of Ingmar Bergman and Scandinavian literary topics. The Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington is proud to welcome Dr. Marilyn Johns Blackwell back to the UW campus as the first distinguished alumni lecturer.