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Publications 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• “Trans Milieus: Sex/Gender and the Critique of ‘Nature,‘” co-author: Stephanie D. Clare, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 11 (4), 2024.
• “A Queer and Foreign State: Iceland’s Cinematic Subjects,” Lambda Nordica 25 (3-4), 2021.
• “Ástin sem varð að taugahrúgu [The love that became a nervous wreck]: Or, What Does Queer Failure Have to Do With Translation?,” PARSE Journal 11, 2020.

Essays

• “Landscapes Envisaged: Ruth Smith’s (Self)Portraiture,” Periskop: Forum for Kunsthistorisk Debat 32, 2024.
  • “At síggja landsløg fyri sær: (sjálvs-)portrett av Ruth Smith,” translated by Beinir Bergsson.

Translations

• Six poems by Elísabet Kristín Jökulsdóttir, Seedings, 2019.
• Poem by Elísabet Kristín Jökulsdóttir, Poem: International English Language Quarterly, 2018.

Critical DVD/Blu-ray Audio Commentaries

• Michael [1924], dir. Carl Th. Dreyer, Kino Lorber, co-commentator: Amanda Doxtater, 2023.

Selected Grants & Awards

• SASS Baldwin Language Fellowship, Kalaallisut, 2024
• AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship, 2023
• SASS Aurora Borealis Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper, 2023
• UW Chester Fritz International Research Fellowship, 2022
• UW College of Arts & Sciences Arlene Hunter Scholarship, 2022
• UW Simpson Center Society of Scholars Summer Fellowship, 2022
• UW Joff Hanauer Fellowship in Western Civilization, 2019
• Fulbright Research Fellowship to Iceland, 2018
• American-Scandinavian Foundation Research Fellowship, 2018
• UW Graduate School Fund for Excellence and Innovation (GSFEI) Travel Award, 2017
• Scan|Design Foundation Summer Scholarship, 2017
• Danish Ministry of Higher Education & Science Summer Language Scholarship, 2017
• UW Graduate School Top Scholar Award, 2016

Conferences

Panels Organized

• “20 Years of Living Pictures, Missing Persons,” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, 2024.
• “Arctic Racializations Roundtable,” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, 2024.
• “Ahistorical Affects: Gender Feelings in the Presence of the Past,” CLGBT History Queer History Conference, 2022.

Papers Presented

• “Wynter’s Nature: Restorying the Human as More-Than-Human,” with Stephanie D. Clare, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2025.
• “Speculative Spaces: USVI Fiction Remembering Danish Colonialism,” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, 2025.
• “Missing Persons? Humans at the Colonial Exhibition,” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, 2024.
• Panelist, Arctic Racializations Roundtable, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, 2024.
• “Speculative Erotics: Returns to the Past in USVI Contemporary Fiction,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, 2023.
• “Homofuturity: In/human Desire and History,” Queer and Trans Environmental Roundtable, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 2023.
• “Something Trans about the Archive: Dreyer’s Jeanne d’Arc,” CLGBT History Queer History Conference, 2022.
• “Black Borealisms: Blackness, Indigeneity, and the Spatiotemporality of the North,” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, 2022.
• “Whose Breast Revolution? Nudes, Nipples, and Human Rights in Iceland,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 2020.
• “‘Party like a criminal’ Erik Lundin’s Allegorical Suedi and Postnational Swedish Identity,” with Maïmouna Jagne-Soreau, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, 2018.
• “A Movement Between: Mellanförskap and the Rap Oeuvre of Erik Lundin,” International Association for the Study of Popular Music Norden, 2017.

Teaching

University of Washington

• Multimodal Composition, Predoctoral Instructor
• Expository Composition, Predoctoral Instructor
• Second Year Danish, Predoctoral Instructor
• First Year Danish, Predoctoral Instructor
• Intro to Swedish Literary & Cultural History, Teaching Assistant
• Nobel Prize in Literature, Teaching Assistant
• Sagas of the Vikings, Teaching Assistant
• Scandinavian Children’s Literature, Teaching Assistant
• Scandinavian Mythology, Teaching Assistant
• Scandinavian Women’s Literature, Reader/Grader
• Vikings in Popular Culture, Teaching Assistant

Service

• Member, DEIAJ Committee, UW Scandinavian Studies (2017-2025)
• Co-Organizer, UW Feminist Writing Graduate Research Cluster (2023-2025)
• Graduate Student Representative, SCMS Nordic Scholarly Interest Group (2021-2023)
• Graduate Student Representative, SASS Executive Council (2021-2023)
• Participant, ACLS Intention Foundry: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Anti-Racism (2021, 2023)
• Graduate Student Representative to the Faculty, UW Scandinavian Studies (2019-2020)
• Co-Organizer, UW Translation Studies Graduate Research Cluster (2019-2020)
• Senator, UW Graduate and Professional Student Senate (2016-2018)
• Member, Graduate Colloquium Committee, UW Scandinavian Studies (2016-2018)

Additional Education & Training

• Teaching Arctic Environments Workshop, 2024
• School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, 2021
• Multilingual Writing Lab, Ós Pressan, 2018-2019
• Danish Summer Language Course, Askov Højskole, 2017
• International Literary Translation & Creative Writing Summer School, British Centre for Literary Translation, 2017
• Graduate Translation Conference & Workshops, 2017
• Institute in Faroese Language and Culture, University of the Faroe Islands, 2016
• Summer Course in Modern Icelandic, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, 2016

Memberships

• American Studies Association (ASA)
• American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)
• Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS)