CV / Troy Storfjell

Troy Storfjell

Curriculum Vitæ

Academic Positions

2005- Assistant Professor of Norwegian and Scandinavian Studies, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Department of Languages and Literatures and Scandinavian Area Studies Program.
2003-2005 Instructor of Scandinavian, University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures.
1999-2003 Assistant Professor of Modern Foreign Languages (Norwegian), Augustana College, Sioux Falls, Department of Modern Foreign Languages.
1998 Visiting Lecturer, University of Washington, Seattle, Department of Scandinavian Studies.
1998 Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Scandinavian Studies.
1996-1997 Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Scandinavian Studies.

Education

Ph.D. 2001 University of Wisconsin-Madison. Degree in Scandinavian Studies; Ph.D. Minor in Comparative Literature; Dissertation: “Colonial Palimpsest: Tracing Inscriptions of Sápmi and the Sámi.”
M.A. 1995 University of Wisconsin-Madison. Degree in Scandinavian Studies.
Grunnfag i nordisk 1994 Universitetet i Tromsø (Norway). Degree in Scandinavian language and literature.
B.A. 1989 Andrews University (Berrien Springs, Michigan). Majors in History and German, minor in Journalism.
Grundstufe II 1985 Seminar Schloß Bogenhofen (St. Peter am Hart, Austria). Certificate in German.

Publications

“Jon Fosse,” Twentieth Century Norwegian Writers. Tanya Thresher, Ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2004. 95-101.
“Samene i Markens grødes kartlegging av en (umulig) idyll” [The Sámi in Growth of the Soil’s Mapping of an (Impossible) Idyll]. Hamsun i Tromsø III: Raport fra den 3. internasjonale Hamsun-konferansen: "Tid og rom i Hamsuns prosa" [Hamsun in Tromsø III: Report from the 3rd International Hamsun Conference: “Time and Space in Hamsun’s Prose”]. Tromsø, Norway: Hamsun Selskap, 2003. 95-112.
“Mapping a Space for Sámi Studies in North America,” Scandinavian Studies: The Journal for the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. Vol. 75, No. 2. (Summer 2003), 153-164.

Translations

Jernsletten, Nils. “Sami Traditional Terminology: Professional Terms Concerning Salmon, Reindeer and Snow.” In Harald Gaski, ed. Sami Culture in a New Era: The Norwegian Sami Experience. Kárásjohka, Norway: Davvi Girji os, 1997. 86-108.
Solbakk, John Trygve. “Sami Media – And Their Role in Sami Society.” In Harald Gaski, ed. Sami Culture in a New Era: The Norwegian Sami Experience. Kárásjohka, Norway: Davvi Girji os, 1997. 172-198.
Gaski, Harald. “The Secretive Text: Yoik Lyrics as Literature and Tradition.” In Sami Folkloristics. Kárásjohka, Norway: Davvi Girji os. 1997.

Work in Progress

Inventing the Sámi: Contesting the Legacy of Colonial Discourse in the North (working title). Interrogation of colonial discourse and the Sámi. Book.
"Ambivalent Savegry and Colonial Psychology in Henrik Pontoppidan's Isbjørnen (1887)." Article.
"Selling Wind: Sámi as Witches and Witches as Sámi in Northern European Religious Imaginagion." Kelmer Roe faculty-student research project with Professor Kathleen Breazeale and Britta Helm.
Review of Kristin Kuutma, Collaborative Representations: Interpreting the Creation of a Sámi Ethnography and a Seto Epic. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2006. For Scandinavian Studies: The Journal for the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study.
Review of Laila Stien, Antiphony. Trans. John Weinstock. Chicago: Nordic Studies Press, 2007. For Nordic Studies Press.
Johan Turi and Matti Aikio: Charting Sámi Literary Beginnings.” Article.

Papers

(accepted) "Kautokeino 1852 and the Struggle for Memory." Modern Languages Association (Chicago) December, 2007.
“The Return of the Repressed Savage in Henrik Pontoppidan’s Isbjørnen,” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies (Rock Island, Illinois/Davenport, Iowa) April, 2007.
“Wild at Heart: Civilization and Savagery in Pontoppidan’s Isbjørnen,” Northwest Symposium (Eugene, Oregon) March, 2007.
"Walk Like A Man: Performing Masculinity in Bázo's Globalized Northern Landscape." Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (Oxford, Mississippi) May, 2006.
“Worlding the Critic: Thoughts on the Problematic Role of the Anti-Imperialist Scholar.” English and Languages and Literature Colloquium, Citizens of the World: Diaspora, Exile, and the City (University of Denver) April, 2005.
“Ambivalence, Savagery, and the Other Within.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (Portland, Oregon) May, 2005.
“The Roadless Road Movie and National Allegory: Jacob Grønlykke’s Lysets hjerte.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (Redondo Beach, California) April, 2004.
(Invited) “Samene i Marken grødes kartlegging av en (umulig) idyll," [“The Sámi in Growth of the Soil’s Mapping of an (Impossible) Idyll”] Den 3. internasjonale Hamsun-konferanse i Tromsø, – Tid og rom i Hamsuns forfatterskap, [The 3rd International Hamsun Conference in Tromsø; – Time and Space in Hamsun’s Literary Oeuvre] September, 2003.
“Aikio, Turi, and the Contest Over Sámi Literary Space,” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (Minneapolis) May, 2003.
“Beyond the Pale: Constructions of the Arctic in Three Mystery Novels by Peter Høeg, Kerstin Ekman, and Robin A. White,” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (Salt Lake City) May, 2002.
“Mapping a Space for Sámi Studies,” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies (Chicago) April, 2001.
“Clash of the Would-Be Titans: Ari Behn, Tore Renberg, and “Formalism’ in Contemporary Norwegian Literature,” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies (Madison, Wisconsin) May, 2000.
“The Reflection in the Window: Ethnography Questioned in Laila Stien’s Vekselsang,” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (Seattle) May 1999.
“Linnæus in Lapland: The Enlightenment Classification of Sámiland,” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (Tempe, Arizona) May, 1998.
“On the Periphery of Paradise: The Sámi in Knut Hamsun’s Markens grøde.” Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada (St. John’s, Newfoundland) June, 1997.
“To Make a Sacred Drum: Aesthetic Distancing and the Fractured Subject in Ailo Gaup’s Natten mellom dagene,” Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada (Montreal) June, 1995.

Panels

Panel member: “Translating and Transmitting Cultures: Rivers to Cross and Bridges to Build,” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (Seattle) May, 1999.

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

Kelmer Roe Research Fellowship in the Humanities, with Kathleen Breazeale and Britta Helm, Pacific Lutheran University, 1007.
Regency Advancement Award, Provost, Pacific Lutheran University, 2006.
Nominated for GSLL Teaching Award, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2005.
Implementation of Multicultural Perspectives and Approaches in Research and Teaching (IMPART) Awards Program Grant, Office of Diversity and Equity, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2004.
Residence Life Academic Teaching Award, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2004.
President’s Fund for Excellence Grant, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2003, 2004.
International Studies Travel Grant, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 2000.
Aurora Borealis Prize, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies, best student paper on literature, 1999.
Research Fellowship, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1997-1998.
Vilas Travel Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1997 and 2001.
Vilas Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996.
Torgeir Thompsen Fellowship, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995-1996 and 1993-1994.

Courses Taught

*indicates course developed by me.

Pacific Lutheran University

NORW 201 & 202 Intermediate Norwegian
NORW 301 Composition & Conversation
NORW 302 Advanced Composition & Conversation
WRIT 101 Writing Seminar: *The Red Pill or the Blue One? Critical Citizenship & Hegemony
*SCAN 321 Topics in Scandinavian Culture & Society: Nordic Colonialism
SCAN/POLS 322 Scandinavia in World Issues
SCAN 190 Inquiry Seminar: Introduction to Scandinavia
SCAN 327 The Vikings
INTC 244 Postcolonial Issues

University of Colorado

NORW 1010, 1020 Beginning Norwegian 1 & 2
NORW 2110, 2120 Second Year Norwegian Reading & Conversation 1 & 2
SCAN 2201 Introduction to Modern Scandinavian Culture and Society
SCAN 3202 Old Norse Mythology
SCAN 3203 Masterpieces of Modern Scandinavian Literature
*SCAN 3206 Nordic Colonialism
SCAN 3209 Contemporary Nordic Literature and Film
*COML 5840 Independent Study: Arctic Mythology, Shamanism & Christianization
*COML 5840 Independent Study: Representations of Femininity in Literature, Culture & Theory
*COML 6840 Independent Study: Translation & North-Norwegian Voice
*COML 5840 Independent Study: Nordic Colonialism & Postcolonial Theory
*GRMN 5900 Independent Study: Nordic Colonialism & Postcolonial Theory
*NORW 2900 Independent Study: Faroese Literature in a Nordic Context

Augustana College

*MDFL 356 Sámi Culture and Literature
ENGL 380 Seminar in Literary Criticism and Theory
*MDFL 397 Topics: European Decadence
*MDFL 297/ GENL 297 Topics: Peoples and Politics of the Circumpolar Arctic
*MDFL 297/ ENGL 297 Topics: Ibsen and His Contemporaries
*MDFL 197/ 297 Topics: The Vikings
*MDFL 197/ 397 Topics: Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature
MDFL 150, 151 Introduction to Norwegian I and II
MDFL 250, 251 Intermediate Norwegian I and II
MDFL 350 Norwegian Conversation and Composition

University of Washington

*Scand 490 Special Topics: Sámi Life and Culture

University of Wisconsin

*Lit. Trans. 312 Native Other, Native Self: The Sámi in Literature
Norwegian 101, 102

ADMINISTRATIVE AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

National and International

2005-present Member, Ibsen Society of America Council
2004-present Member of the Advisory Board, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS).
2002-2005 Webmaster, Member of Executive Board, Norwegian Researchers and Teachers Association of North America (NORTANA).
2000-2002 Member, NORTANA Ad-Hoc Committee on Changes to the By-Laws and Charter.

Pacific Lutheran University

2007-present Fulbright Advisor
2007-present Member, Global Studies Committee
2007 Acting Chair, International Core/International Honors Program
2006-present Member, International Core Committee (since 2007 also International Honors Program Committee)
2006-present Member, Sustainability Committee
2005-present Member, Scandinavian Studies Committee
2005-present Member, Scandinavian Cultural Center Council Executive Board
2005-2006 Member, Scandinavian Cultural Center Council Ad Hoc Bylaws Committee

University of Colorado, Boulder

2004-2005 Member, Faculty Steering Committee, Center for the Study of Human Culture and the Environment
2004-2005 Member, Executive Committee of Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures (GSLL).
2004-2005 Project director, Colorado International Sámi Studies Symposium, planned for May, 2006.
2004 Member, Ad Hoc Committee to Revise German Curriculum, GSLL.
2004 Member, Fulbright Recommendation Committee, CU.
2003-2005 Faculty Advisor, Scandinavian Club.

Augustana College

2002-2003 Member, Curriculum Council.
2001-2002 Faculty Parliamentarian.
2000-2002 Member, Faculty/Administrative Hearing Panel.
2000-2003 Member, Regent Scholarship Competition Committee.
1999-2003 Member, International Studies Committee.
2002-2003 Faculty Advisor, Augustana Coalition for Social Justice.
2001-2003 Faculty Advisor, Augustana Norwegian Club.
2000 Judicial Chair, Augustana College Review Board.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

1997-1998 Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of Scandinavian Studies.

Local and Regional

2007-present Chair, Morning Language Program Committee, Sheridan Elementary PTA, Tacoma, Washington.
2001 Discussion Leader for Sioux Falls, Knowing the World Through Reading, South Dakota Humanities Council.
2001-2003 Member, South Dakota Peace and Justice Center.
1997 Taught introductory class in Norwegian language, culture, and history for Rotary Club business exchange program, Appleton, Wisconsin.
1997 Translated Norwegian Newspaper articles for Wisconsin Governor’s Office.

Consultancies

2000 Norwegian language consultant for Norwegian: A Language Map by Kristine Kershul. Seattle: Bilingual Books.
1998 Norwegian language consultant for Learn Norwegina in 10 Minutes a Day, by Kristine Kershul. Seattle: Bilingual Books.
1996 English language consultant for The Saami Languages: An Introduction, by Pekka Sammallahti. Kárásjohka, Norway: Davvi Girji os.

Memberships

Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Norwegian Researchers and Teachers Association of North America
Ibsen Society of America
American Comparative Literature Association
Modern Languages Association

Languages

English – native proficiency
Norwegian – native/near-native proficiency
German – advanced proficiency
Swedish – advanced reading and aural comprehension
Danish – advanced reading and aural comprehension
Old Norse – reading proficiency
Introductory proficiency in North Sámi