KIRSTEN WOLF, professor and Torger Thompson Chair, is a native of Denmark. She received her M.A. and
Ph.D. degrees in Scandinavian languages from University College London in 1982
and 1987, respectively. Her B.A. Hons. degree in Icelandic (major) and
Norwegian (minor) is from the University of Iceland (1981).
Kirsten
Wolf joined the Department of Scandinavian Studies in the fall of 2001, where
she teaches Old Norse-Icelandic language and literature and Scandinavian
linguistics. Prior to her appointment, she held the Chair of Icelandic
Language and Literature at the University of Manitoba (1988-2001) and also served as
department chair for ten years. From
1987 to 1988, she was editor of the Arnamagnaean Dictionary: A Dictionary
of Old Norse Prose at the University of Copenhagen, and from 1986 to 1987 lecturer in
the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Scandinavian
Studies.
Her
primary areas of research are Old Norse-Icelandic language and literature and
medieval Scandinavian hagiography. She is currently working on a series
of articles on colors and color terminology in Old Norse-Icelandic and on a
number of hitherto unedited hagiographic texts. For a list of her
publications and of the courses she is currently teaching, please click on the
links below.
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