Peter Leonard, Ph.C.
Graduate Student in Scandinavian Literature ❖ Scandinavian Studies ❖ University of Washington ❖ Seattle USA
Multicultural Scandinavian Literature
Summer Course
Copenhagen Classroom, August 2009
Post-Ethnic Identity in Swedish Literature
Raoul Wallenberg Lecture Series
Invited Talk
Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, May 2009
Marking Up Stone: TEI, GIS and Medieval Runology
Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science
Poster Session
University of Chicago, November 2008
Begivenhet och realism i Wenger och Önder
Københavns universitet, June 2007
Class: Novellen og dens teori
Identity and its Discontents:
Corporeal Indexicality in Claus Beck-Nielsen & Jonas Khemiri
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Augustana College, April 2007
Panel: Immigrant Literature
Awarded Aurora Borealis Prize for Best Graduate Student Literature Paper
Revised June 2007
Marjaneh Bakhtiari
Marjaneh Bakhtiari at Scandinavia House
Consulate General of Sweden, New York City, December 2006
Moderator, Discussant

Class Visit: Nordic Colonial & Post-Colonial Fictions
University of Washington Scandinavian Studies, Marianne Stecher-Hansen, Ph.D.
Organizer

Sweden’s Desperate Hunt for Diversity
Simpson Center for the Humanities
Moderator, Discussant
Sweden’s Swedishest Words:
Verbal Hygiene on the Periphery of the Nation
University of Washington, June 2006
Course: Language Ideology, Nation, and History
Heterosexuality v. Homosociality:
Bodies in Motion in Wenger’s “Borta i tankar”
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
University of Mississippi, May 2006
Panel: Urban Space and Race in Modern Scandinavian Literature
Jonas Hassen Khemiri at Scandinavia House
Consulate General of Sweden, New York City, November 2005
Moderator, Discussant
Imagining Themselves:
Voice, Text and Reception in Anyuru, Khemiri and Wenger
MA Thesis, June 2005
ScandArabian Narrative:
Voice, Truth, Reception in Jonas Khemiri’s Ett ög rött
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Panel: One Red Eye
University of Oregon, May 2005
Home Alone:
Lilja 4-ever and the Crisis of Domestic Masculinity in Sweden
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Panel: Swedish Film
University of California, Los Angeles, April 2004
Awards & Fellowships Professional Activities Teaching Education