I’m Maxine Savage (they/them)

I am a Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia. I received my PhD in Scandinavian Languages and Literature from the University of Washington. My research examines discourses of sexuality, race, and place in cultural production connected to Danish colonialism in Iceland, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), and the US Virgin Islands. My work has appeared in Transgender Studies Quarterly, Periskop, Lambda Nordica, PARSE Journal and elsewhere. I am also a Translation Assistant Editor for the online literary journal Anomaly. My work has been supported by the AAUW, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, and the Killam Trusts. I have collaborated with the Indiana University Cinema, the National Nordic Museum, the Northwest Film Forum, The Poetry Brothel-Reykjavík, and Taste of Iceland.

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