Staff
Dr Claire Thomson
Head of Department
Lecturer in Scandinavian Film
I gained my PhD in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Edinburgh, and hold an MA in Modern European Languages and European Union Studies (French and Danish) and an MSc in the Practice and Theory of Translation, also from the University of Edinburgh. I currently supervise PhD projects on Cypriot national cinema, on Finnish cinema and the Welfare State, on Icelandic national-literary history, and on Swedish-English Translation Studies (our UCL Impact PhD Studentships)... > More
Margrethe Alexandroni
UCL Teaching Fellow in Norwegian
Margrethe has worked as Teacher of Norwegian at the International Summer School, University of Oslo. She enjoys translating from and into Norwegian, and worked as freelance translator for many years. She is also a creative writer, and has published a number of short stories in both English and Norwegian, mainly in Scandinavian magazines. She is an intrepid traveller and has completed three personalised travelogues: Fourteen Days in Brazil and The Magic Carpets of Dunhuang and two travelogues from Russia... > More
Dr Haki Antonsson
Lecturer in Medieval Scandinavian Studies
Born 1970 in Reykjavik, Iceland, I received my Ph.D. in medieval history from the University of St Andrews in 2000. I was a lecturer in the Department of Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews (2000-2001) and the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge (2001-2004). I was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen, 2004-2007.The history and culture of Scandinavia between ca. 900 and ca. 1300; the Christianization of Scandinavia and especially the cult of saints and the associated Old Norse and Latin literature; cultural interaction between the British Isles and Scandinavia... > More
Dr Elettra Carbone
Teaching Fellow in Norwegian
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completed my PhD in Scandinavian Studies at UCL in February 2011. My thesis,
Nordic Italies examines representations of Italy in Nordic Literatures written
between the 1830s and the 1910s. I also hold an MA in Comparative Literature
and a BA in Scandinavian Studies with Management Studies, both from UCL. In
the course of the past two years, I worked as a postdoc fellow (Knowledge
Transfer Associate) for UCL Advances (the UCL Centre for Entrepreneurship and
Business Interaction), examining the challenges faced by small publishing
companies specialised in the Humanities and exploring new potential ways of
cooperation between small publishing companies like Norvik Press and the higher
education sector. I have also published an edited book and a number of journal articles related
to the topic of my PhD thesis and taught on various aspects of Scandinavian
literature and culture at UCL.... > More
Karin Charles
Departmental Co-ordinator
I manage and co-ordinate the Scandinavian Studies Department, including student and course administration. I am also the project manager for Nordic Noir and am involved with other departmental public engagement projects. I am also the Undergraduate Officer and Careers Liaison for the School of European Languages, Culture and Society. In addition, I manage the administration for the BA Language and Culture.
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Jesper Hansen
UCL Teaching Fellow in Danish
Jesper teaches Basic Danish, Intermediate Danish, Advanced Danish and Advanced Project Work in Danish, as well as Nordic literature. He holds a Teacher's degree from Herlev Gymnasium, a Danish high school in Copenhagen, and a Cand. Mag in English/Danish from the University of Copenhagen. Recently, Jesper has been developing a project that integrates transferable skills training in editing and publishing into the language classroom, producing print and online versions of the magazine Danish Review ...> More
Dr Mary Hilson
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Scandinavian History
I was educated at the University of Exeter, and studied as a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Economic History, Uppsala University. I joined the UCL Department of Scandinavian Studies in October 2000. From January 2009-September 2009 I was visiting researcher at the Centre for Nordic Studies, Renvall Institute, Helsinki University, where I was also attached to the NordForsk Centre of Excellence on The Nordic Welfare State: Historical Foundations and Future Challenges. My current research project is concerned with the consumer co-operative movement in Scandinavia, Britain and the rest of Europe during the first half of the twentieth century... >More
Annika Lindskog
Lecturer in Swedish
After graduating with a degree in Swedish, German, Music & Teaching from Umeå University and Piteå Academy of Music (Sweden), I taught Swedish as a foreign language and courses in Swedish cultural studies at the University of Wales Lampeter, the University of Belgrade, and Trinity Colllege Dublin before joining UCL in 2001. In 2008 I also completed a MA in Music, Culture & Politics at Cardiff University, with the dissertation: 'Siehe, ich sage euch ein Geheimnis: Collectivity, compassion & cultural nationalism in choral music from the nineteenth century'. ... > More
Dr Tom Lundskær-Nielsen
Senior Lecturer in Danish
Senior Lecturer in Danish since 2001; Acting Head of Department Oct. 2000 – Dec. 2001, and HoD Jan. 2002 – Dec. 2005. In addition to my Ph.D. from Odense University, I have a ‘cand.mag.’ degree (English/German) from Copenhagen University, and an M.Phil. degree (linguistics) from Cambridge University. I have previously taught at a Danish ‘gymnasium’, Copenhagen University, the Royal College of Education in Copenhagen, and Cambridge University, before moving to UCL in 1991. I held a Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1988-90, and have since been a life member of Clare Hall. In 1991 I was awarded the gold medal from Copenhagen Business School for a thesis on historical linguistics... > More
Dr Helga Hlaðgerður Lúthersdóttir
Teaching Fellow in Icelandic and Old Norse
Prior to joining Scandinavian Studies at UCL I was the Head
of Nordic Studies, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and
Literatures, at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the United
States. I completed my PhD in Comparative Literature at University
of Colorado in 2005. I also hold an MA in Comparative Literature from
University of Colorado, a BA in Comparative Literature and Teaching
Credentials from the University of Iceland, and a BA in Fine Arts from
the Icelandic Academy of Arts. > More
Dr John Mitchinson
Teaching Fellow in Scandinavian Studies (Swedish and Faroese)
I completed all levels of my higher education at UCL, with
the exception of a semester at Umeå University in 2004, the University
of Hamburg in 2005 and a research period based at the University of the
Faroe Islands between 2008 and 2010. I received my PhD in Scandinavian
Linguistics in March 2012. My thesis, which was funded by the AHRC,
looked at the Danish language on the Faroe Islands from a post-colonial
perspective. Prior to this I completed an MA in Advanced Scandinavian
Translation Studies and a BA in German and Scandinavian Studies. For the creation and teaching of the two Faroese language courses at UCL, I received a Provost's Teaching Award in 2011... > More
Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
Lecturer in Scandinavian Literature
My research falls within the fields of Scandinavian and Comparative
Literature. I have published studies in World Literature, Book History,
Discourse Technologies, (Cultural) Memory and Digital Culture, Hans
Christian Andersen and Henry James. I am interested in the
inter-dependence of literature and materiality - how publication
formats, print cultures and visual cultures make literature 'matter'. I
have published research on Hans Christian Andersen's tales in
illustrated magazines; Henry James's New York Edition author portrait;
Memorial culture in Second Life; Digital archives and cultural heritage... >More
Associated faculty:
- Dr Titus Hjelm, Lecturer in Finnish Studies (Department of East European Languages and Cultures, SSEES)
- Honorary Research Staff
