Bio

 

With a joint appointment at Harvard in Scandinavian and in Folklore and Mythology, my research and teaching naturally address a wide variety of genres and periods of Nordic culture and literature, and issues in folklore, centering on popular traditions, mythology, and legends in the late medieval and early modern periods, but I have also written on such diverse topics as Scandinavian drama and women's autobiographical literature in the 17th century (...

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