Gergana May

NISSS 2009 Coordinator and Norwegian Language Instructor
Lecturer in Germanic Studies and West European Studies, Ph.D.

Gergana May joined IU in Fall 2006 after earning her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. A native of Bulgaria, Professor May earned her M.A. in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Sofia. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Scandinavian Literature and Culture and Literary Theory and Criticism and include Scandinavian theatre, Ibsen and Strindberg, translation for the theatre and immigrant literature. Her interdisciplinary and wide-ranging research interests find an apt counterpoint in the wide variety of courses she offers to IU students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

For more information on the Norwegian program, click here.
http://www.indiana.edu/~germanic/dutch/Norwegian.shtml

Karin Hogen

Swedish Language Instructor
MA, University of Washington

Karin Hogen has a BA in Scandinavian Studies from Gustavus Adolphus College and earned her MA in 2008 from the University of Washington – Seattle. She is specializing in Swedish politics. Her interest in Sweden has been a life-long one due to her family that still lives in the country and trips back and forth for visits. She was an exchange student in Västerås when she was 18. She has taught at the University of Washington for two years, and at the University of Minnesota for one semester.

Michelle Facos

Nordic and Dutch Art 1850-1950
Associate Professor, Department of History of Art

Professor Facos has been researching, writing, and lecturing about Scandinavian art for more than twenty years. She has lectured in Helsinki, Stockholm, Göteborg, Oslo, and Århus and taught at Växjö University. Her book Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Painting in the 1890s (California, 1998), is the only foreign book ever to win the prestigious Art and Antique Dealers of Sweden award, and her latest book, Symbolist Art in Context (California, 2009), includes Dutch artists such as Toorop and van Gogh.

For more information on Professor Facos, click here.
http://www.indiana.edu/~arthist/faculty/facos.shtml

Per Nordahl

Migration and Integration from Nordic and Dutch Perspectives
Visiting Professor, Ph.D. in History from Umeå University - Sweden

Per Nordahl's research centers on policies for immigrant integration in Scandinavia and the ways in which they have been implemented. Professor Nordahl has served as a Fulbright Fellow, American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellow, and IU Institute for Advanced Study Fellow. He has published a book, Weaving the Ethnic Fabric: Social Networks Among Swedish-American Radicals in Chicago 1890–1940, and has served as Director of the research projects “Boundaries of Swedishness” (1999–2002) and “The Transatlantic Diffusion of Ideas and Attitudes through Swedish-American Returnees” (1995). From 2002 to 2006 he was the Director of the Swedish Emigrant Institute where he initiated and managed a number of EU projects. His is currently teaching at International Studies.