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Visiting professor to present inaugural lecture in Norwegian Studies

Margaret Hayford O'Leary
October 17, 2007

The University of Oslo's Professor Ingeborg Kongslien will present the first annual Frederick Gaylord Grose Lecture in Norwegian Studies on Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. in Buntrock Commons, Viking Theater. Kongslien will discuss "Literary Voices of the Immigrant Experience: Scandinavian-American and Contemporary Nordic Perspectives." The lecture is free and open to the public.

Kongslien currently is an American-Scandinavian Foundation visiting professor in the department of Scandinavian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has also taught two Interim courses for the St. Olaf Norwegian Department Norwegian-American Historical Association
Although she has written extensively about Norwegian immigrant literature in the United State, she recently has turned her attention to writing about immigrants to Norway. Authors with immigrant backgrounds have been writing and publishing in the Nordic countries for the past 30 years. Dealing with themes of migration and exile, biculturalism and bilingualism, and acculturation and identity formation, these authors have introduced new fields of reference into the Nordic literatures and have challenged and expanded the national literary canons.

The Frederick Gaylord Grose Lecture in Norwegian Studies Endowment is an annual lecture or seminar series on Norwegian or Norwegian-American life, history, language or culture.

Contact Carole Engblom at 507-786-3271 or leigh@stolaf.edu.