Susan Brantly
Director, Center for European Studies

Susan Brantly received her B.A. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1987. She joined the Scandinavian Studies Department in 1987, where she is currently Professor of Swedish. Her book The Life and Writings of Laura Marholm (1991) examines European literary connections in the 1890s between Scandinavia and Europe through Marholm who translated Scandinavian writers into German and wrote many essays on literature and women’s issues. Understanding Isak Dinesen (2002) takes a look at another writer enmeshed in several cultures, focusing primarily on close readings of her texts. Her most recent book The Nordic Storyteller: Essays in Honour of Niels Ingwersen (2009), which she co-edits with Thomas A. Dubois, is a collection of essays that explore the aesthetic and cultural interfaces between songs and tales in oral tradition and with respect to particular literary forms. Brantly has also written several articles on Swedish historical fiction. She teaches courses on Isak Dinesen, August Strindberg, Scandinavian Decadence, and 19 th Century Scandinavian Literature. She is also Director of the Bradley Learning Community and President of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study.

Contact information:
Suite 213, Ingraham Hall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison WI 53706
Tel: (608) 262-9637
Fax: (608) 265-9541
Email: sbrantly_at_facstaff.wisc.edu (please replace _at_ with @)