College of Humanities People

Marilyn Blackwell, Professor and Director of Swedish/Scandinavian Studies

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures: http://germanic.osu.edu/

Office Information
419 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: blackwell.4@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-8687
Fax: 614-292-8510

General Background:
Marilyn Johns Blackwell, PhD, University of Washington (1976). Director of Swedish/Scandinavian Studies.

Specializations: 19th- and 20-century drama and prose; feminist criticism; film.

Books: C.J.L. Almqvist and Romantic Irony: The Aesthetics of Self-Consciousness (1983); Persona: The Transcendent Image (1986); Gender and Representation in the Films of Ingmar Bergman (1997).

Edited Book: Structures of Influence: Comparative Approaches to August Strindberg (1981).

Articles on: Strindberg; Almqvist; Bergman; Ibsen; Enquist; Vesaas; Dinesen.

Major courses taught: Films of Ingmar Bergman; Scandinavian literature courses.