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 The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

Career

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

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

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

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

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

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

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. She has published articles on writers such as P.C. Jersild, Sven Delblanc, Sara Lidman, Per Anders Fogelström, P.O. Enquist and others in journals such as, ''Clio'', ''Comparative Literature'', ''Scandinavian Studies'', ''Horizont''. She has also published on

August Strindberg Johan August Strindberg (; ; 22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter.Lane (1998), 1040. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than 60 pla ...

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."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 Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study."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) *Brantly, Susan (2017).
The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era: Presenting the Past.
' New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781138230255

References

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