Areas of Expertise
- 19th- & 20th-c. drama & prose;
- Feminist criticism; Film.
PhD (University of Washington)
Specializations: 19th- and 20th-century drama and prose; feminist criticism; film.
Books: C.J.L. Almqvist and Romantic Irony: The Aesthetics of Self-Consciousness (1983); Persona: The Transcendent Image (1986); Gender and Representation in the Films of Ingmar Bergman (1997).
Edited Book: Structures of Influence: Comparative Approaches to August Strindberg (1981).
Articles on: Strindberg; Almqvist; Bergman; Ibsen; Enquist; Vesaas; Dinesen.
Major courses taught: Films of Ingmar Bergman; Scandinavian literature courses.