kjhanson@u.washington.edu  Dept. of Scandinavian Studies  University of Washington  Box 353420  Seattle, WA 98195-3420

Research:
Norwegian short prose and poetry, Olav H. Hauge, translation, Contemporary Women Writers

Teaching:
Norwegian language, Scandinavian literature,
Contemporary Women Writers

Publications:
"Nature and Imagery in Olav H. Hauge's Poetry," (Diss., 1978)

Book Translations:
Editor and translator: An Everyday Story: Norwegian Women's Fiction Seattle: Seal Press, 1984, (Revised and Expanded version, 1995)

Translator: Amalie Skram, Constance Ring , with Judith Messick, Seal Press, 1988

Translator: Amalie Skram, Under Observation with Judith Messick, Seal Press, 1992

Translator: Cecilie Høigard and Liv Finstad, Backstreets: Prostitution, Money and Love with Nancy Sipe and Barbara Wilson, Penn State Press, 1992

Articles:
"Nature and Imagery in Olav H. Hauge's Poetry," Proceedings of Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages , 1978

"Dialektikken 'elvi' -- 'berget' i Olav H. Hauges dikting sett på bakgrunn av Gaston Bachelards estetikk," Festschrift til Olav H. Hauge , 1978

"Ibsen's Women Characters and Their Feminist Contemporaries," Theater History Studies, 1982

"Sea Poems in Under bergfallet and Seint rodnar skog i djuvet," in Om Olav H. Hauges forfatterskap, Oslo, 1994

"Amalie Skram og forlagsverdenen-Anno 1885," in Amalie. Silkestrilen sin datter, Oslo, 1996

Eight articles and bibliographies on Norwegian Women writers in Dictionary of Continental Women Writers, Garland Publishing, 1994

In addition, I have translated articles, short fiction and poetry for The Norsman, News from the Top of the World, Norwegian Literature Today, Scandinavian Women Writers: An Anthology from the 1880s to 1990s, 20 Contemporary Norwegian Poets, Contemporary Norwegian Writing by Women, and book reviews have appeared in Scandinavica, Edda , and New Comparison: Journal of General and Comparative Literature.