 Scott A. Mellor |
Courses I currently teach:
Masterpieces
of Scandinavian Literature: Middle Ages to 1890
Scandinavian Mythology
Scandinavian Tale and Ballad
19th Century Scandinavian Literature
Summer Course in Hans Christian
Andersen
Swedish at all levels
History of the Vikings (UW-Milwaukee)
I have been at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since September 1989. I started with an interest in Historical Scandinavian Linguistics, which has grown to a general interest in medieval Scandinavia. My dissertation was written on the transition from orality to literacy in Scandinavia, dealing mostly with Codex Regius. The Dissertation title is Function and Formula: An Analysis of Ten Poems from the Codex Regius.
I am currently the Norden House Faculty Director, the Scandinavian language floor with the International Learning Community, and a faculty fellow for the Bradley Learning community. I have created several distance education course; one for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, The Vikings; I worked with Niels Ingwersen on a DVD set for the distance course The Tale of Hans Christian Andersen; and Susan Brantly on a distance course on 19th Century Scandinavian Literature. My research interests currently consist of Oral Theory and The Volsunga Saga, I have just completed an article and translation on Saint Ansgar and his mission to Sweden and finally HC Andersen's use of Romantic era flower language in his texts and "The Little Mermaid". I am also currently a member of the Humanities Council of Wisconsin's Speakers Bureau.
If you would like to contact me, just email me at samellor@wisc.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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PUBLICATIONS Analyzing Ten Poems from The Poetic Edda: Oral Formula and Mythic Patterns. Mellem Press, 2008. "Flowers and Emblems in H.C. Andersen's 'The Snow Queen,'" in The Nordic Storyteller: Essays in Honour of Niels Ingwersen, Susan Brantly and Thomas DuBois eds. Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2009. "Saint Ansgar: His Swedish Mission and its Larger Context," Toranto Press, 2008. Beginner's Swedish. Hippecrene: NY, 2002. 2nd edition, 2006. "The Nordic Roots of Tolkien's Middle Earth," Tom DuBois and Scott Mellor. Scandivian Review, Summer 2002. "Multiform and Life Cycle: An Armenian and a Scandinavian Narrative." Scandinavian Studies. 2002. |
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SCHOLARLY PAPERS General editor for The Eastern World of the Vikings: Eight Essays about Scandinavia and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages, E.A. Melnikova. Gothenburg Old Norse Studies, 1. 1996. Computer Consultant and Editorial Assistant of Prärieblomman, by Birgitta Svensson, at Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden. 1994. Translator and English Consultant for Vikingar, Viking exhibition at Eriksbergshallen, Göteborg, Sweden. 1995. Conference Presentations"'Hvad siger den lille Sommergjæk?'" Flowers and embedded stories in H.C. Andersen." The 95th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Portland, Oregon May 5-7, 2005. "Saint Ansgar: His Swedish Mission and its Larger Context," The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. Minneapolis, MN., May 1-4 2003. "Multiform and Life Cycle: An Armenian and a Scandinavian Narrative." The 90th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study: Folklore Pre-conference. Madison, WI. 30 April-2 May 2000.
"Manuscripts and Codex Regius." The annual meeting of the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada. St. John's, New Foundland. May 31-June 4 1997. "Occurrences of gráta in the Icelandic Sagas." The 85th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. Pullman, WA. 27-30 April 1995. "Crying in Medieval Scandinavian Folklore." American Folklore Society and Society for Ethnomusicology 1994 Joint Annual Meeting. Milwaukee, WI. 19-23 October 1994. "Mythic Patterns in Volsunga Saga." The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. Davenport, IA. 28-30 April 1994. "Gustav Vasa and the Medieval Scandinavian Ballad." Twenty-Eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. 6-9 May 1993. "Old Scandinavian,
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INVITED LECTURES "Hans Christian Andersen: The Social Critic." Senior Summer College, Madison WI, June 2008. "Hans Christian Andersen: the Angry Social Critic." 1) Sequoya Library, Madison WI. Nov. 10, 2005; 2) DeForest, WI. Oct. 13, 2005; 3) Appleton, WI. Sept. 26, 2005; 4) Waupaca WI. Jan. 24, 2005. "Scandinavian Language." Winchester Academy, Waupaca, WI. September. 13, 2004. "Workshop
on Hans The Mont Clair Kimberley Academy, a k-12 school, to help "Narrative and Mythic Patterns in Volsunga Saga." Námsáætlun fyrir munnlega hefð og eddukvæði [Seminar for Oral Performance and Eddic Poetry]. University of Reykjavík. Reykjavík, Iceland. 15 March, 1996.
"Formula and Structure in Codex Regius." Fredagseminariet för västnordiska studier [Friday Seminar Series for West Nordic Studies ]. Department of Literature, University of Gothenburg. Gothenburg, Sweden. 3 November, 1995. "Gustav Vasa: History and a Ballad." Swedish American Institute, Minneapolis, MN. 1994. "Scandinavian Mythology: a primer" for Stoughton Newspaper, Stoughton, WI. 1992. "Hans Christian Andersen." Canterbury Coffee House. Madison, WI. 26 April 1992. "Scandinavian Mythology." Sons of Norway Club. Stoughton, WI. |
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