Scandinavian Studies : Faculty : Jan Krogh Nielsen

Dept. of Scandinavian Studies
University of Washington
Box 353420
Seattle, WA 98195-3420
(206) 685-8741

Kirstine Kastbjerg
Visiting Lecturer in Danish
Ph.C. University of Washington, 2009
M.A. University of Aarhus, 2006

Research:

Gothic, Fantastic, Fairy Tales, Romanticism, B.S. Ingemann, Hans Christian Andersen, Karen Blixen / Isak Dinesen, Peter Høeg, Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe, E.T.A. Hoffmann

Dissertation:

“Danish Gothic: B.S. Ingemann, H.C. Andersen, Karen Blixen and Peter Høeg.” Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington (forthcoming).

Teaching:

Danish Language
Contemporary Danish Culture
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish Short Stories and Novels
Foreign language pedagogy
Language teaching methodology
Teacher Training

Publications:

Towards a Danish Gothic. Contribution to Gothic Anxieties (forthcoming)

Dressed up in the body of an old woman: Gothic Conventions in Ingemann, Andersen, Blixen and Høeg.” Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 18 (2009)

Subjektets romantiske opløsning i Ingemann, Byron, Hoffmann og Poe. Ibid (2006)