Undergraduate - BA
Graduate - MA, Ph.D.
Courses
Baltic Studies
Finnish Studies
Study Abroad
Scholarships
New Directions Series
Bergen Faculty Exchange
Associate Professor | Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 1990
Tel. +1-206-543-6084 | Email marianne@u.washington.edu
Books:
Danish Writers from the Reformation to Decadence, 1550-1900 
in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 300 (Gale Group, 2004)
Twentieth-Century Danish Writers in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol 214 (Gale Group, 1999)
History Revisited: Fact and Fiction in Thorkild Hansen's Documentary Works (Camden House, 1997)
Recent Articles:
"Karen Blixen on Feminism and Womanliness - 'En Baaltale med 14 Aaars Fosinkelse.'" Scandinavian Studies 82:2 (Summer 2011): 191 - 232.
“Soldier’s Daughter: Karen Blixen and Nazism – ‘Breve fra et Land i Krig,’” Scandinavian Studies 82:1 (Spring 2010) 53 - 95.
Marianne Stecher-Hansen enjoys teaching and research in Scandinavian literature, especially Danish literature and cultural studies. She is particularly dedicated to the work of Hans Christian Andersen and Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) as well as Scandinavian literature of the World War II period. She has published a monograph on the documentary work of Thorkild Hansen and edited two reference works covering Danish literary history from the Reformation through the Twentieth Century. Most recently, Marianne has been engaged in studies of Nordic colonialism from a postcolonial perspective. Her current book deals with the essays and ideology of Karen Blixen and builds on extensive archival research. Some of her new work on Blixen is forthcoming in Scandinavian Studies in early 2010.
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