Verne Moberg
New York, New York
TRANSLATES: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
Verne Moberg has taught Swedish and Scandinavian literature and culture at Columbia University since 1988 and has also taught these subjects at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Virginia, Gustavus Adolphus College, and UCLA.
With a Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an M.A. in Germanic languages and literatures rom S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, she has earned praise for her translations of the prose and drama of Victoria Benedictsson and of poems and plays by Kristina Lugn. Moberg's 1997 translation of Lugn's play Aunt Blossom was awarded the Inger Sjöberg Prize in Translation by the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and in the spring of 2000 she was honored with a prize by the Swedish Academy of Stockholm, presented in recognition of her work in making Swedish literature better known and appreciated in the United States.
Dr. Moberg's special interests are 19th and 20th-century Scandinavian literature, women's studies, gay history, and translation. She is a member of S.A.S.S., S.W.E.A., and PEN.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Translations
Plays by Kristina Lugn, Margareta Garpe, Amalie Skram, Victoria Benedictsson, Hans Hederberg, and Edvard Rønning; poetry by Thomas Boberg and Kristina Lugn.
Publications
“Mitt liv som svensklärare: En amerikansk reaktion på Sveriges nutida ‘neutralitet’” (My Life as a Swedish Teacher: An American Reaction to Sweden’s Current “Neutrality”), Artes, 3 (2003), pp. 6-25
"Distinguished Swedish Scholar Leif Sjöberg Dead at 74,” Nordstjernan, Jan. 25, 2001, pp. 3, 10
"North Toward Home: Two Volumes of Norwegian Poetry Translated by Roger Greenwald," Review of translations of poetry by Rolf Jacobsen and Tarjei Vesaas in Manhattan Review, 10:2 (Winter 2003), pp. 77-79
Biographical article on W. H. Auden for Scribner’s Encyclopedia of American Lives. Thematic Series: The 1960s, vol. 1, pp. 38-40
A Wild Bouquet: Some Swedish Poems in English Translation – A Tribute to Leif Sjöberg, V. Moberg, ed. (published by The Swedish Program of Columbia University), 2002
Review of Barbro Gustafsson Rosenqvist’s “Att skapa en ny värld”: Samhällssyn, kvinnosyn och djuppsykologi hos Karin Boye (“To Create a new world”: Karin Boye's views on society, women, and depth psychology”) (Stockholm: Carlsson Bokförlag, 1999), in Scandinavian Studies (Fall 2001)
“Kristina Lugn,” Metamorphoses (Spring 2000), 8:1, pp. 71-83
“Consciousness Razors,” pamphlet issued by the National Education Association, Washington, DC, 1970 (reprinted in Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women’s Liberation Movement [New York: Basic Books, 2000], pp.237-239)
“A 1998 Summer Tour of Swedish Institute Courses at Three Swedish Folk High Schools,” January 1999 (report to the Swedish Institute)
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