Karin Filipsson
Thematic Research Area
Department Program
Education
PhD Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington, 2025.
Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies, University of Washington, 2022.
Master of Arts, Creative Writing, Linneaus University, 2008.
Master of Arts, English Literature, Linneaus University, 2007.
Bachelor of Arts, English Linguistics, Linneaus University, 2005
About
Dr. Karin Filipsson is lecturer of Swedish and Nordic studies. She received her PhD from the University of Washington for her doctoral thesis “Jonas Hassen Khemiri and the Swedish Novel: Autofiction, Intertextuality, and Postmigrant Melancholy”
A native Swedish speaker, she has taught extensively in Sweden, the United States and Canada. She is a trained linguist, a literary scholar and translator, and a published author. Most recently, she has taught Swedish and Scandinavian studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. She has won multiple awards for her work; among them the Joff Hanauer Fellowship for Excellence in Western Civilization, the Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Studies, the Marna Feldt Publication award and SWEA International scholarship in Literature. Her research focuses on postmigrant and transcultural Scandinavian literature, ecocritical perspectives, children’s literature, and memory studies.
Teaching
Publications
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
“Shadows and Silences in Göran Rosenberg’s Memoir: Jewish Postmemory in the Swedish Welfare State”, Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études Scandinaves Au Canada. Vol. 29. 2022, pp. 1-12.
“Writing Life in an Era of Post-Truth: Autofictionalization in Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Novel Systrarna”, Scandinavian Studies. Forthcoming.
Book Reviews
Review of They called Me “Hot-Blooded”: Viveca Lindfors’s “Performed Self” and Swedish Stardom in the 1940s. by Saki Kobayashi. Swedish–American Studies. Forthcoming.
Review of Gloria: In the Shadow of Racism by Elisabeth Åsbrink and Gloria Ray Karlmark. Swedish Book Review No. 2025:1.
Review of The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri. Swedish Book Review No. 2024:1.
Review of Heaven is Near by Lo Dagerman. Swedish Book Review No. 2024:1.
Review of Just a Small Murder, by Carin Hjulström. Swedish Book Review No. 2023:1.
Review of Babetta by Nina Wähä, Swedish Book Review No. 2022:2.
Review of Letters to Men by Bianca Kronlöf. Swedish Book Review No. 2022:2.
Review of White Melancholy by Tobias Hübinette and Catrin Lundström. Swedish Book Review 2022:1.
Review of Children of the Holocaust by Margit Silberstein. Swedish Book Review No. 2022:1.
Translations
Children of the Holocaust by Margit Silberstein. Swedish Book Review No. 2022:2.
Children of the Holocaust by Margit Silberstein. Translations Aloud. July 2022.
Letters to Men by Bianca Kronlöf. Albert Bonniers Förlag. Stockholm, 2022.
Creative Writing
“They will change us forever” as part of the art installation and publication Hostile Terrain 94, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, 2021.
Gaias Första Bok. Växjö: Växjö University Press, 2012.
“All the good men”, Shipwrights Review. Spring Issue, 2008.
“Förflyttningen” in Förflyttningar. Eds. Tommy Olofsson &Vasilis Papageorgiou. Växjö University Press. Växjö, 2005.
Podcasts
Interview with Nana Osei-Kofi, Crossing North, 2025.
Interview with Lo Dagerman, Swedish in Seattle, 22 March 2024.
Interview with Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Crossing North, 2 June 2023.
Awards
SWEA International Scholarship in Literature 2025
The Etta Grant Foundation Award 2024
The Swea Endowment for Excellence in Swedish Studies 2023 & 2025
The Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Studies 2022–2023
The Marna Feldt Graduate Publication Award 2022
The Ann-Marie and Gunnar Gavel Endowment for Swedish Studies Scholarship 2022
The Joff Hanauer for Excellence in Western Civilization Graduate Fellowship 2021–2022
The Endowed Scholarship in Honor of the Nordic Museum 2021& 2023
The Aurora Borealis Award 2021