Niels Ingwersen

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

The University of Copenhagen, cand. mag., 1963. 
Stockholm University, 1957.
Oslo University, 1958-59. 
University of Chicago 1961-62. 

 

Taught at University of Wisconsin, Madison since 1965; 
Visiting Professor at Odense University; 
Aarhus University; 
and U.C.L.A.  

FIELDS OF INTEREST 

Nordic: Medieval narrative and religious texts, Baroque, early Romanticism, Hans Christian Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard, the novel, the 1890s. 

 Folklore: Narrative folklore (folktale and ballad) 

 General: Theory of narratives, concept of the literary period  

PUBLICATIONS 

On Scandinavian folktales and ballads; Thomas Kingo, Adam Oehlenschläger, Steen Steensen Blicher, Hans Christian Andersen, Emil Aarestrup, Hans Egede Schack, Søren Kierkegaard, J.P. Jacobsen, Johannes V. Jensen, Martin Andersen Nexø, Martin A. Hansen, Peter Seeberg. 

History of Nordic literary criticism, the Danish Modern Breakthrough, the Scandinavian 1890s, the Danish 1930s. 

 On the folktale. 

 On Structuralism; the possibility of writing literary history. 

COURSES TAUGHT REGULARLY 

Scan 276: Scandinavian life and Civilization (coordinator and lecturer). 

Scan 273: Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature 

Scan 275: The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen: Taught as well as a correspondence course through University Extension 

Scan 401-02: Contemporary Scandinavian Languages (Danish section) 

Scan 424: Nineteenth Century Scandinavian Fiction 

Scan 426: Kierkegaard and Scandinavian Literature 

Scan 433: Scandinavian Tale and Ballad 

Scan 633-36: Survey of Scandinavian LIterature (with colleagues) 

and various graduate seminars.