Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2003.
- M.A., University of Washington, Seattle, 1998.
- Oslo Year Program, University of Oslo, Norway, 1995-1996.
- B.A. University of Washington, Seattle, 1989.
Publications
Book Chapters
- Fitzgerald in Hollywood: 1938-1939” in Niklas Salmose and David Rennie, eds. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2024): 371-382.
- “The Serpent’s Egg: Ingmar Bergman’s Exilic Elsewheres in 1970s New German and New Hollywood Cinema. Co-written with Anna Westerstahl Stenport. In Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere, volume co-edited by Anna Westerstahl Stenport and Arne Lunde. Edinburgh University Press (2019): 341-359.
- “The Story of a Bad Girl!: Summer with Monika, Sexploitation and the Selling of Erotic Bergman in America,” in Elisabet Björklund and Mariah Larsson, eds. Beyond Swedish Summers: The Breakthrough of Sexuality in Swedish Cinema. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co (2016): 11-20.
- “The Scandinavian Colonies of Silent Era Hollywood,” in Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist, eds. The Blackwell Companion to Nordic Cinema. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons (2016): 396-416.
- “Going Hollywood: Nordic Directors in Contemporary American Cinema,” in Tommy Gustafsson and Pietari Käpää, Eds. Popular Nordic Genre Film: Small Nation Film Cultures in the Global Marketplace. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2015): 230-243.
- “Knut Hamsun on Film in Transnational Contexts,” in Ståle Dingstad, Ylva Frøjd, Elisabeth Oxfeldt, and Ellen Rees, Eds. Knut Hamsun: Transgression and Worlding. Trondheim: Tapir Academic Press, 2011: 265-27.
- “‘Garbo Talks!’: Scandinavians in Hollywood, the Talkie Revolution, and the Crisis of Foreign Voice,” in John Fullerton, Ed. Screen Culture: History and Textuality (Stockholm Studies in Cinema series). Sydney: John Libbey & Co. 2004: 21-39.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- “Ingmar’s Hitchcockian Cameos: Early Bergman as auteur inside the Swedish studio system,” in Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. 8:1 (2018): 19-33.
- “Through a Laugh Darkly: Comedy in the Films of Ingmar Bergman,” in Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. 4:3 (2014): 255-260.
- “Look to Norway!: The Nazi Occupation of Norway in Hollywood Wartime Cinema” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema2.3 (2012): 299-314.
- “After The Celebration: Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love.” Film International 9.2 (2011): 20-29.
- “Ingmar’s Hitchcockian Cameos: Early Bergman as auteur inside the Swedish studio system,” in Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. 8:1 (2018): 19-33.
- “Scandinavian Auteur as Chameleon: How Benjamin Christensen Reinvented Himself in Hollywood, 1925-1929.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 1.1 (2011): 7-23.
- “Op med hodet: Tancred Ibsen’s 1933 Experiment in Cinematic Modernism.” Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 19 (2010): 56-71.
- “Knut Hamsun at the Movies in Transnational Contexts.” Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur 25 (2009): 41-52.
- “Politics, Aesthetics, and Afterlife in Paa gjengrodde stier: Retracing Knut Hamsun’s ‘Overgrown Paths’ toward Nazism.” Scandinavica. 47.2 (2008): 175-190.
- “Helga Crane’s Copenhagen: Denmark, Colonialism, and Transnational Identity in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand.” With Anna Westerståhl Stenport. Comparative Literature. 60.3 (2008): 228-243.