Rachel Bott

Area(s) of Study: Late Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavian Popular Culture, Scandinavian Medieval Ballads

About: 

Rachel is a third-year PhD at UW-Madison in GNS+ on the Folklore track minoring in Medieval Studies. She completed her bachelor’s at the University of Texas at Austin and her master’s at Uppsala University. Her research focuses on late-medieval Scandinavian popular culture, especially Swedish culture. She is also passionate about Swedish language and teaching Swedish. She has studied Swedish for nearly a decade and has lived in Sweden for several years prior to starting her PhD. She has taught first-year Swedish at UW-Madison and is thrilled to now have the opportunity to teach Swedish for NORD’s inaugural year at WISLI.

Education:

– Uppsala University – M.A. in Early Modern History
– University of Texas at Austin – B.A. in German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies

Selected Publications:

• “Pale her cheeks they ought to be, it was only yesterday that she had been a tree.”: Gender, Power, and Hybridity in the Swedish Medieval Supernatural Ballads, M.A. Thesis, Uppsala University
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