Karen Swenson

• Old English Language and Literature
• Middle English Language and Literature
• Western European Medieval Literature
• Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Shakespeare

• Ph.D., Cornell University English 1987
• M.A., Cornell University English 1985
• M.A., Portland State University English 1980
• Certificate, Portland State University Teaching English as a Second Language 1979
• B.A., Portland State University Anthropology 1976

• 2014: Innovation in Learning Grant..  For development of online course in Arthurian Literature
• 2010: Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award, Honorable Mention

Books

Performing Definitions: Two Genres of Insult in Old Norse Literature, Studies in Scandinavian Literature and Culture, Vol. 3, ed. George C. Schoolfield, Yale University; Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1991.

Cold Counsel: :Women in Old Norse Literature and Mythology, ed. Sarah M. Anderson with Karen Swenson. New York & London: Routledge, 2002. [304 pages]

Journal Articles

• Women Outside: Discourse of Community in Hávamál, in Cold Counsel: :Women in Old Norse Literature and Mythology, ed. Sarah M. Anderson with Karen Swenson. New York & London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 273-280
• "Death Appropriated in The Fates of Men," Studies in Philology 88 (Spring 1991), 123-139.
  
• "Mary as Wall in Dunbar's "Ane Ballat of Our Lady,'" English Language Notes 27 (1989), 1-6.
  
• "Wapentake: A Realistic Detail in Cynewulf's Juliana," Notes and Queries 33 (1986), 3-6. 

Papers

“Edward Cullen as Fairy Queen:  Twilight and Medieval Romance,” Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, LA. (March 2014)

“The Damned Few: 'Weird Sisters' as Post-apocalyptic  Authority," Pippi to Ripley: The Female Figure in  Fantasy and Science Fiction, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY. (March 2013).

Planning and Assessing:  Science Fiction Online, at Educause in Baltimore, January 2011.