Linda Rugg

Linda Haverty Rugg is a professor in the Scandinavian Department at UC Berkeley. She teaches courses in ecology and culture in Scandinavia, Murder on Ice (Nordic crime fiction), the films of Ingmar Bergman, and on race and whiteness. Both of her books — “Picturing Ourselves: Photography and Autobiography” and “Self-Projection: The Director’s Image in Art Cinema” — deal with the question of how self-representations are constructed through image and narrative. Her published articles range from an essay on Mark Twain and performative race to a study of August Strindberg’s paintings within an ecocritical context. She has translated several books, including Ingmar Bergman’s “The Fifth Act,” Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s “Zig-Zag: The Politics of Culture and Vice-Versa,” and Sven Lindqvist’s “A History of Bombing.”