Susan Brantly is an American scholar in

Scandinavian literature Scandinavian literature or Nordic literature is the literature in the languages of the Nordic countries of Northern Europe. The Nordic countries include Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway (including Svalbard), Sweden, and Scandinavia's associate ...

and a professor at the

University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...

Career

Susan Brantly received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in German and Scandinavian from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 1980, her Master of Arts Degree in Scandinavian Literature from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

in 1983, and her Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literature from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

in 1987. That same year, she began working in the Scandinavian Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin, where she is currently a professor. Contemporary Swedish historical fiction remains a central research interest, and she has published articles on writers such as P.C. Jersild,

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, P.O. Enquist and others in journals such as, ''Clio'', ''Comparative Literature'', ''Scandinavian Studies'', ''Horizont''. She has also published on

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and other nineteenth-century Nordic writers, and maintains a keen interest in modernist studies. From 2007 to 2009, she served as president of the

Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study The Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS) is a scholarly society that aims to advance the study, teaching and research in America of the languages, literature, history, culture and society of the Scandinavian or Nordic countries ...

."SASS 2011 - A Century of Scholarship: Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Conference Program", 28-30 April, 2011. She has also served as the director of the Bradley Learning Community and the director of the Center for European Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Brantly is the editor of the Studies in Nordic Literature and Film series, published by the Welsh Academic Press. In 2013, Brantly became the editor of ''Scandinavian Studies'', the quarterly journal published by the

."UI Press, Journals, Scandinavian Studies"
Retrieved 25 May 2013.

Awards

*2003 recipient of the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award at University of Wisconsin-Madison *2004 recipient of Outstanding Faculty Member by The UW Panhellenic Association *2013 recipient of UW System Alliant Energy Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award, 2013

Works

* * * (Trans. Albert Burkhardt) * (ed. with

Thomas A. DuBois Thomas A. DuBois is a folklorist, scholar of Sámi culture, professor, and the former chair of the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Personal life DuBois is married to Wendy Vardaman, a former Poet ...

) *Brantly, Susan (2017).
The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era: Presenting the Past.
' New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781138230255

References

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