Monika Zagar

612-625-4898

German, Scandinavian & Dutch 215 Fol H

Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations

The Rhetoric of Defense in Hamsun's Paa gjengrodde stier. Zagar, Monika, Edda 3, 1999.
Nu var hun fanget Kvinner, barn og fruktbarhet i Knut Hamsuns roman Markens grøde (1917): Zagar, Monika, University of Tromsø Press, Proceedings from the 1999 International Hamsun Conference, 1999.
Knut Hamsun's Taming of the Shrew - A Reading of DronningTamara: Zagar, Monika, Scandinavian Studies, 70(3) 337-357, 1998.
Imagining the Red-Skinned Other Hamsun's Article Fra en Indianerleir. Zagar, Monika, Edda, 2001.
Ideological Clowns: Dag Solstad - Between Modernism and Politics. Zagar, Monika, Wiener Studien zur Skandinavistik, 2002.
How Knut Hamsun Imagined Juliane and Her Speech: Hamsun's Play Livet ivold: Zagar, Monika, Norvick Press, Proceedings from the "Gender, Power, Text: Scandinavian Culture in the Twentieth Century", 2004.
Legacies of Modernism - Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950. Zagar, Monika, Patrizia C. McBride, Richard W. McCormick, Palgrave Macmillan, Co-Editor, 2007.
Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance.. Zagar, Monika, University of Washington Press, Author, 2009.

Race and ethnicity in Scandinavian literature and film: Analysis of texts written by transnational adoptees to Scandinavia, portrayal of transnation adoptees in Scandinavia, 2000
Contemporary Scandinavian Literature and Culture

Director of Organizing Committee for SASS 2003: Responsible for site selection, paper selections, financial planning, session organization , Spring 2002 - June 2003
Director, Center for Scandinavian Studies: Director and Administrator of the Center; Organizer of conferences, speakers and workshops; Community outreach , August 2001 - January 2004

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