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Associate Professor TANYA THRESHER received her PhD from the University of Washington in 1998 with a dissertation on contemporary Scandinavian women dramatists. Her MA, which concentrated on Norwegian women writers, and her BA in Scandinavian Studies and German are from the University of East Anglia in Great Britain. She has been a member of the department since 1997 and teaches a variety of courses on Norwegian language, Scandinavian drama, film, prose modernism, and women writers.

Along with articles on theater and contemporary Norwegian authors, she has published a book on the Norwegian dramatist Cecilie Løveid, Cecilie Løveid. Engendering a Dramatic Tradition (2005), and has edited a Dictionary of Literary Biography on twentieth century Norwegian writers (2004) along with a WITS edition of Norwegian short stories (2006). Her current book project focuses on the drama of Henrik Ibsen and in particular the relationship between melodrama, gender, and Ibsen's realism as depicted in several film adaptations of his social plays.

Professor Thresher is an active member of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, the Norwegian Teachers and Researchers Association of North

America (NORTANA), and the Ibsen Society of America.