lotta@u.washington.edu  Dept. of Scandinavian Studies  University of Washington  Box 353420  Seattle, WA 98195-3420 Tel: 206-543-6099

Barbro Osher Endowed Professor
of Swedish Studies
Alternate Undergraduate Advisor

Ph.D. University of Washington, 1990

TEACHING:
Scandinavian Drama
Swedish literature
Strindberg and European Cultural History
Scandinavian Women Writers
Advanced Swedish language

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

Critical textual French-Swedish edition of August Strindberg's Inferno in the Swedish National Edition of Strindberg's Collected Works, with an introduction, critical commentary and explanations. Stockholm: Norstedts, 1994.

Stage and Screen: Studies in Scandinavian Drama and Film. Essays in honor of Birgitta Steene. Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams and Terje I. Leiren (editors) Seattle: DreamPlayPress Northwest, 2000.

Critical textual French-Swedish edition of August Strindberg's Legender in the Swedish National Edition of Strindberg's Collected Works, with an introduction, critical commentary and explanations. Stockholm: Norstedts, 2001)

Twentieth Century Swedish Writers, Volume 259 in the series Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. and Gale Research, Inc., 2002.

Articles:

"Guldmakaren och Ockultisten," in Strindberg: Diktare och mångfrestare, ed. Margareta Brundin. (Stockholm: Kungliga Biblioteket, 1999) pp. 137-146.

"Om nöjet att översätta Strindberg från franskan: textkritik och översättningsproblematik i Strindbergs Legender inför utgivningen i Samlade Verk," in Sidor av samma sak? Sex uppsatser om översättning. Ed. by Björn Meidal. (Åbo Akademi, 1999), pp. 69-80.

"The Dance of Death I: The Hells of August Strindberg and Lars Norén: from Swedenborgian Vastation to Psychological Wasteland," in Expressionism and Modernism: New Approaches to August Strindberg. Edited by Michael Robinson and Sven H. Rossel. (Wien: Edition Praesens, 1999), pp. 17-23.

"Strindbergs Paris: Promender i 6:e arrondissementet," in Strindbergiana, (Stockholm: Atlantis, 1998), pp. 104-126.

"Strindberg and Rimbaldian Poetics: Inferno as a French poème en prose," in The Moscow Papers. Edited by Michael Robinson. (Stockholm: Strindbergssällskapet, 1998).

Entries for "Saint Birgitta," "Erik Johan Stagnelius," "Fredrika Bremer," and "Moa Martinsson," in Benet's Readers' Encyclopedia. Fourth Edition. Edited by Bruce Murphy. (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996).

"Maktkamp och kvinnokamp: En dialog över nio decennier. Strindberg's Den starkare och Dorrit Willumsens Denstærkaste II" in Strindbergiana , (Stockholm: Atlantis, 1995).

"Strindberg et Huysmans: un cas de plagiat?" in Strindberg et la France: Douze essais. Edited by Gunnel Engwall. (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1994).

"Strindberg som Ockultismens Zola," in Strindbergiana, (Stockholm: Atlantis 1993).

"Inferno: Intended Readers and Genre," in Strindberg and Genre, editor, Michael Robinson, (Norwich: Norvik Press, 1991).

"Daughters and Fathers: Subversion of Patriarchal Culture in Selma Lagerlof's Kejsarn av Portugallien and Astrid Lindgren's Ronja rovardotter," in Litteratur og kjonn, Editor, Helga Kress. (Reykjavik, 1996).

Affiliations:
Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies
Member of the faculty of the European Studies Program

Links:
Malmö Dramatiska Theater