Dean Krouk
Credentials: NORD Consultant
Position title: Professor, Associate Chair, Director of Graduate Studies (Nordic)
Email: krouk@wisc.edu
Website: GNS+ Faculty & Staff
Address:
Office Number: 1308 Van Hise Hall
Dean Krouk’s main area of research is Norwegian literature since the 19th century along with its interactions with modern political ideologies during the interwar period and World War II. Dean has published a few books, Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway and The Making of an Antifascist: Nordahl Grieg between the World Wars. Dean has also translated and written an introduction to My Father’s War: Confronting Norway’s Nazi Past (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023), a work of nonfiction that was originally published by Bjørn Westlie in Norwegian as Fars krig. Dean regularly teaches courses about Norwegian literature (in Norwegian), modern Scandinavian history, World War II in Nordic culture, and the drama of Henrik Ibsen, among other topics offered intermittently.
Researh/Language Interest
• Modern Nordic/Scandinavian Literature and History
• Norwegian Literature
• Comparative Modernisms
• Politics of Literature in the Twentieth Century
• Fascism and Anti-Fascism
• Memory Studies
Educational Background
• University of California, Berkeley, PhD in Scandinavian (2011)
• University of California, Berkeley, MA in Scandinavian (2005)
• University of Chicago, BA in Comparative Literature (2003)