akn@u.washington.edu  Tel. +1-206-543-0643  Fax +1-206-685-9173  Dept. of Scandinavian Studies  University of Washington  Box 353420  Seattle, WA 98195-3420 Homepage

Andrew Nestingen's research is organized around the question, How does textual form figure in the way people construct, imagine, and regulate their social worlds? Nestingen's book looking at this question has just been published by the University of Washington Press in its "New Directions in Scandinavian Studies" series, Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia: Fiction, Film, and Social Change. The book argues that literary and cinematic crime fiction became a salient site for critiquing neoliberal political-economic change during the 1990s-2000s. The book discusses Kerstin Ekman, Leena Lehtolainen, Henning Mankell, Johanna Sinisalo, Reza Bagher, Aki Kaurismäki, Lukas Moodysson, and others.

A book he co-edited with Trevor G. Elkington, Transnational Cinemas in a Global North: Nordic Cinema in Transition, was published in March 2005 by Wayne State University Press's Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series. It includes articles by Ib Bondebjerg, Thomas DuBois, Gunnar Iversen, Mette Hjort, Mervi Pantti, Linda Rugg, Peter Schepelern, Rochelle Wright, and others.

Research Interests

• Finnish Studies
• Post-1945 Finnish Literature
• Scandinavian Cinema
• Post-1945 Scandinavian Literature
• Globalization
• Cultural Studies
• Aki Kaurismäki
• Welfare State
  

Selected Publications

Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia: Fiction, Film and Social Change. (Seattle: University of Washington, Press, 2008).

"Timely Subjects: Leena Krohn Between Universal and Particular." Scandinavian Women's Writing: Contemporary Critical Approaches, guest ed. Ellen Rees, spec. issue of Scandinavian Studies 76.3 (2004): 75-98.

“Nostalgias and Their Publics: The Finnish Film Boom, 1999-2001.” Scandinavian Studies 75.4 (Winter 2003): 539-566.

“Reimagining the Road Movie: Det nya landet (2000), Ariel (1988), and the Transnational Road Movie” in Globalisering: Spøkelse eller visjon? Eds. Kjersti Faldet Listhaug and Sissel Lie. Trondheim: NTNU, 2003. 51-64.

“Leaving Home: Global Circulation and Kaurismäki’s Ariel.” Journal of Finnish Studies 6/1-2 (2002): 5-26.