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Contributors to This Issue

Kristine J. Anderson is a librarian at Purdue University and holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from SUNY-Bingharnton. She has authored the entries on "Danish" and "Norwegian" in the Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English as well as articles and conference presentations on Danish writers such as Isak Dinesen and Dorrit Willumsen.

George Bailey is a graduate student in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages at Brigham Young University. He is currently studying issues related to immigration and family literacy. He taught first-year Danish at BYU and received his BA in Chinese

Aase Bak holds a "magisterkonferens" in art history from Aarhus Universitet, 1979. She worked as archival assistant at The Danish Emigration Archives in Aalborg, Denmark, from 1978-83 and did graduate studies in art history at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1985-87, earning a Ph.D. in 1994, with a dissertation titled Images and Ethnicity: Visual Arts Among Danish-Americans 1868-1934. She has worked as a curator of modem art at Nordjyllands Kunstrnuseum in Aalborg, Denmark, since 1988.

Erik M. Christensen holds a mag.art. and Ph.D. in comparative literary history and a gold medal from Aarhus University, Denmark. From 1973 he was professor at the Freie Universitat Berlin and Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin. He has authored numerous books and articles on Danish writers, for example, Johannes Ewald, Martin A. Hansen, Sten Stensen Blicher, Georg Brandes, and Johannes V. Jensen. Along with four colleagues from Aarhus University, he is preparing a critical edition of the collected poems of the Danish Nobel Prize winner Johannes V. Jensen.

Jean Christensen received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 1979 and is currently Head of the Division of Music History and Director of Graduate Studies, School of Music, at the University of Louisville, specializing in music composed since 1900. Her publications treat

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topics in Danish music, Schoenberg studies, jazz, and, more recently, music by Bulgarian composers. Christensen was a Fulbright scholar in Denmark and Sweden (1988) and in Bulgaria (2002, 2003).

Peter G. Christensen received a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton. At Cardinal Stritch University he currently teaches English literature to 1800,

Shakespeare, non-Western literature, literary theory, and science fiction/fantasy. He has also been investigating films and novels about the life of Jesus.

John R. Christianson joined the faculty of Luther College in 1967. He has written, edited, or translated twelve books and more than 100 articles on various aspects of Scandinavian and Scandinavian­American history. From 1999-2002, he was editor of The Bridge: Journal of the Danish American Heritage Society.

Lea Rosson Delong is an independent curator and art historian focusing on American art of the Depression era and contemporary art. She is the author of Grant Wood's Main Street, Christian Petersen: Sculptor, Shifting Visions: 0 'Keeffe, Gus ton, Richter, and numerous other exhibition catalogues and publications. She is currently guest curator for the Brunnier Art Museum, organizing an exhibition and publication on Grant Wood's murals for the library at Iowa State University.

Linda Donelson is the author of the bestselling biography Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa and is creator of the Karen Blixen - Isak Dinesen Information Site, karenblixen.com. Together with Marianne Stecher­Hansen, she authored the article Karen Blixen for the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century Danish Writers .

Joakim Garff received a cand.theol. degree (1986) and a lic.theol. degree (1991) from the University of Copenhagen. He has been a board member of the Kierkegaard Society, co-editor and co­publisher of Kierkegaardiana, and of Kredsen and fonix . He has been Research Professor at the S0ren Kierkegaard Forskningscenter (SK

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Research Center) and co-editor of SRJren Kierkegaard's Skrifter (SK's Writings) since 1994. His books include: Den SRJvnlRJse [The Insomniac]; Kierkegaard lcest cestetisklbiografisk (1995), [Kierkegaard from an Aesthetic/Biographical Perspective]; Kierkegaards cestetik [Kierkegaard's Aesthetics] (with Poul Erik T0jner and J0rgen Dehs, 1996); Skriftbilleder; SRJren Kiekerkegaards journaler, notesbRJger, hcefter, ark, Zapper og strimler [Written Images: SRJren Kierkegaard's Journals, Notebooks, Booklets, Sheets, Scraps, and Slips of Paper] (with Niels J0rgen Cappel0m and Johnny Kondrup, 1996; trans. Bruce Kirmmse, Princeton and Oxford, 2002) and, most recently, SAK. SRJren Aabye Kierkegaard. En biografi (2000; English translation by Bruce Kirmmse: SRJren Kierkegaard: A Biography [Princeton, 2004]). His work in progress is a monograph about the concept of education in Kierkegaard's thought.

Barbara George gained an appreciation for the qualitative aspects of history and social systems, including their interactions in achieving outcomes, while completing graduate studies in liberal arts and clinical social work. Further studies of the work of Carl Jung, system theories, and pattern recognition, along with Assisi Seminars, added these concepts to the tapestry of her understanding of communities and human interactions. Four years ago, while conducting genealogy and family history research in Indianapolis, Barbara uncovered the faded and untold story of First Trinity Danish Church. In her presentation she honors the legacy of this small group of Danish Immigrants and pioneers in the Danish Church movement in the United States.

Mikael Engelstoft Hansen is a computer programmer at the University of California at Berkeley. He describes himself as a "modem day Danish immigrant and casual writer."

Thorvald Hansen was born in Troy, New York, and educated in the public schools of that city. He came to Des Moines in 1941 and graduated from Grand View College and Seminary in 1946. He earned a B.A. from Drake University in 1951 and an M.A. from the University of South Dakota in 1965. He has served Danish

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communities and Grand View College in various capacities. He has written five books on immigrant subjects and translated two. He is now retired and lives in Des Moines, where he continues to edit Church and Life.

Lynn Henrichsen, a descendant of Danish immigrants to Utah, is chair of Brigham Young University's Linguistics and English Language Department and a professor of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). He received his Ed.D. from the University of Hawaii.

Poul Houe was born in Denmark and educated at Arhus University. He taught at Uppsala University from 1973-79 and since 1979 has taught at the University of Minnesota, where he is professor of Scandinavian languages and literature. Among his many publications on nineteenth and twentieth century Scandinavian literature and culture are several on Andersen, Kierkegaard, and Brandes.

Jake Huckaby is an undergraduate student in electrical engineering at Brigham Young University, where he taught first-year Danish and is currently involved in several research projects.

Joy Ibsen is a Danish-American writer, composer, piano teacher, and lay minister. She recently compiled and published Songs of Denmark: Sange for Danskere. A graduate of Grand View College and Shimer College, Joy studied religion and literature at the University of Chicago and has served as president of the Danish Immigrant Museum.

Anne Ipsen is a Danish-American writer and a member of the DAHS Board of Trustees. Her research on Fan0 for the just­published historical novel, Karen from the Mill, inspired her conference talk. lpsen's other books include two memoirs: A Child's Tapestry of War and Teenage Immigrant, first published in The Bridge.

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David Iversen is the Cataloging Librarian at Gordon B. Olson Library at Minot State University in Minot, North Dakota, home of the Norsk Hostfest, which takes place the second week in October. He first translated_ short stories by Carl Hansen when he was a senior at Dana College in Blair, Nebraska, and has dabbled in reading and translating his tales ever since.

James Iversen is Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University. He attended Dana College, Blair, Nebraska, and received a PhD at Iowa State University. He has served as Visiting Scientist at the Marine Research Laboratory in Lyngby, Denmark and as Guest Professor at the University of Aarhus. He is President of the Danish American Heritage Society.

Rudolf Jensen received a B.A. from Carleton College, an M.A. from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; both graduate degrees were in Scandinavian studies. He has taught at Grand View College for twenty years.

Kristi Planck Johnson, a graduate of Dana College, has an M.A. from the University of Minnesota in Scandinavian literature and language and a Ph.D. in international education from the University of Maryland. She is currently Associate Professor of Education at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia.

Avis E. Jorgenson, who holds an Ed.D., retired from university teaching and now lives in Tucson, AZ. She spends her time writing Vol. V of the family history, exercising at the pool, cooking, entertaining, reading, and attending theater or Arizona Historical Society programs. Her interest in Danish history and culture never wanes.

Lisa Kramme was born and raised in Cordova, Nebraska, home to Danish immigrants and their descendants. She heard the stories of Hans Christian Andersen as they were told to her by her father and storyteller, Darrol Larsen. Like her father before her, Lisa enjoys every opportunity to share these stories with others.

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Birgit Flemming Larsen was born and educated in Denmark, receiving a degree in English from the Aalborg Business School. In 2003 she retired as Archivist at The Danish Emigration Archives in Aalborg, a position she had held since 1987. She has written several articles about Danish emigration and immigration in English and Danish and was the editor of the publications issued by the Archives in Aalborg. She was the coordinator of the Marcus Lee Hansen Immigration Conference in Aalborg in 1992, and she is the president of Society for Danish Genealogy of Biography.

Hanne Pico Larsen has a B.A. in folklore from University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and an M.A. in folklore from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently writing her Ph.D. dissertation through U.C. Berkeley on Solvang, California.

Mark Mattes has chaired the Philosophy and Religion Departments at Grand View for a decade. Prior to that he served ELCA congregations in Illinois and Wisconsin. He is the author of The Role of Justification in Contemporary Theology (Eerdmans 2004) and the editor of A More Radical Gospel (Eerdmans 2004). He is an editor of Lutheran Quarterly and has published numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, the M. Div. from Luther Seminary, and a B.A. from St. Olaf.

John Mark Nielsen is Executive Director of The Danish Immigrant Museum and Professor of English at Dana College. A Fulbright lecturer in Denmark (1983-84) and India (2000-2001), he was named "Nebraska Professor of the Year" in 1999 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Inger Olsen has taught Danish language, literature, and film at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon since 1980. She has presented numerous papers on Danish literature and history at professional conferences, and has published articles on Denmark and the Danish language in the New York Review of Books and other publications. She co-edited volume one of Female Voices of the North, an anthology. Volume two is in progress.

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Palle Pedersen has more than 15 years of high tech and entrepreneurial experience. He has developed a technical expertise in building innovative systems and processes that efficiently hold, manage, process, and deliver large-scale electronic data sets. In addition, Palle has a strong background in object-oriented and optimizing compiler technology and has worked with open source software for more than 10 years. He has been a founder and/or has served in executive capacities of several technical companies, including Wallaware, Justa Technology, Spydre LLC, and Integrated Computing Engines, Inc. He holds a graduate degree in Electronics Engineering from Danish Technical University.

Solon Pierce holds degrees from Oberlin College, The Juilliard School, and the University of Minnesota. Dr. Pierce has performed extensively in the United States, Canada, and Europe, including radio and television broadcasts. In the fall of 1999, Dr. Pierce was awarded an Alumni grant from Oberlin College to conduct research and record Gunnar Johansen's Sonata No. 23 Trilogie der Leidenschaft for Radio Denmark in Copenhagen. Dr. Pierce performs chamber music as a member of the touring ensemble Trio Franz Berwald.

Taru Rauha Spiegel received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Maryland, College Park. She has worked in various offices at the Library of Congress and has participated in several events featuring the Library's Scandinavian holdings.

Marianne Stecher-Hansen, who holds her Ph.D. from Berkeley, is an associate professor and Graduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington. She specializes in Danish literature and has edited two volumes of reference works for the Dictionary of Literary Biography. She has published books and articles on Hans Christian Andersen, Karen Blixen, and Thorkild Hansen.

Pia Tafdrup has published eleven collections of poetry. In 1991, she published a celebrated statement of her poetics, Walking over the Water. She received the 1999 Nordic Council Literature Prize,

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Scandinavia's most prestigious literary award for Queen's Gate. She has also published two plays and the novel Surrender in 2004. She is a member of The Danish Literary Academy.

Merete von Eyben teaches at Pasadena City College, California. She received her Ph.D. in Germanic Languages from The University of California, Los Angeles, and is a candidate for her Ph.D. in English from the University of Copenhagen. She has contributed articles to literary biographies and anthologies and has presented numerous papers at conferences. She is also the author of a novel and two collections of short prose fiction in Danish. Karin Michaelis: Incest as Metaphor and the Illusion of Love was published in 2003.

Inga Wiehl holds a B.A. from the University of Copenhagen and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington. She has taught writing and literature at universities in Washington, Utah, and Texas; served as a speaker for the Washington Commission for the Humanities; and written thirty monographs on Scandinavian women in arts, literature, and politics for the Women in History series produced by Yorkin Publications. Her latest contribution, When Professional Women Retire .... Food for Thought and Palate, was issued by Rowan and Littlefield in the spring of 2005.

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