New Directions Series
Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Advisor | Ph.D. University of Washington, 1991
Tel. +1-206-685-7962 | Email idubois@u.washington.edu
Sexuality
Contemporary Scandinavian literature
Ethnicity
Introduction to Scandinavian Culture
Scandinavian Poetry
Swedish Language and Literature
Sexuality in Scandinavia: Myth and Reality
Nordic Authors
Svenska Dagbladet
DNet: Dagens Nyheter
Svenska Institutet
WebMuseum - Paris
BOOK:
Echo: Scandinavian Stories About Girls. Edited by Ia Dübois and Katherine
Hanson. Seattle: Women in Translation, 2000.
ARTICLES:
"In Search of an Identity: The Heroic Quest in Lars Gustafsson's
Fiction, 1960-1986," Scandinavian Studies (Spring, 1995)
"Katarina Frostenson," Twentieth-Century Swedish Writers, Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 257, edited by Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams (Detroit: Gale Group, 2002), 90-97
"Lars Gustafsson," Twentieth Century Swedish Writers, Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 257, edited by Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams (Detroit: Gale Group, 2002), 115-130
IN PROGRESS:
Book on Sexuality in Scandinavia;
Article on Katarina Frostenson, for Female Voices of the
North, edited by Inger Olsen and Sven H. Rossel, to be
published by Editon Praesens in Vienna, Austria.
Ia Dübois' research initially focused on issues of ethnic identity in Sweden and in Swedish literature. Inspired by her interest in interdisciplinary approaches to her research, and by a course she created a few years ago, Dr. Dübois turned her research from Scandinavian literature for a while to focus on a comparative study of sexuality in Scandinavia with the intent to find out if, and how, the Scandinavian countries differ in their perceptions of sexuality in society. More specifically, what made Sweden so progressive and liberal after the welfare state was established in 1933?
As Dübois soon found more differences between the Nordic countires than she expected, the initial phase of her research focused on socio-political issues, particularly on legislative actions with regards to human sexuality. While issues like homosexuality, prostitution and trafficking of women and children are debated globally today, each Scandinavian country has its own interpretation of how their society should handle these issues.
Dr. Dübois spent the Fall Quarter 2006 at Linköping University in Sweden, where she was a Jonsson Family Scholar.
