Amanda Doxtater
Amanda Doxtater is Associate Professor and Barbro Osher Endowed Chair of Swedish Studies in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington (UW). A scholar and teacher in Swedish language and Scandinavian studies, her research focuses on Nordic literature, cinema, theater, and translation studies. Writing widely on Nordic Cinema, her work engages with melodrama, gender, queer historiography, childhood and the family in the Nordic welfare state; and issues of class, race, and ethnicity. Her first book, Visions and Victims: Art Melodrama in the Films of Carl Th. Dreyer (2024) illuminates key intersections between popular film melodrama and Scandinavian art-cinema. Her English-language translation of Karin Boye’s novel Kris (1934), published in 2020 by Norvik Press as Crisis, was runner-up for the Bernard Shaw Prize for translation in 2021 by the UK Society of Scholars. Her current monograph project, Orphaned Films and Archival Bodies: Performing Diaspora in the Nordic Heritage Museum Digital Film Collection, uses textual and performative videographic methods to examine the construction— and erasure—of histories, knowledge, and identities.
