Thorson, Helga
Dr. Helga Thorson is an an Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria. Dr. Thorson’s research interests lie in modernist German and Austrian literature, Scandinavian studies, gender studies, history of medicine, foreign language pedagogy, and Holocaust studies. She also teaches the I-Witness field school; a four week course examining Holocaust memoralization in Central Europe.
Research Interests: German and Austrian literature, Scandinavian Studies, Gender Studies, History of Medicine, and Holocaust Studies
Listing Details
| Institution: | University of Victoria |
| Fields of Expertise: | Gender Politics and Policy Historical Injustice and Trauma Holocaust Studies Memory Politics Public History |
| Research groups: | Memory Politics |
| Email: | helgat@uvic.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, German |
| Publications: | With Dawn Smith, “Building Transdisciplinary Relationships through Mulitdirectional Memory Work and Education.” Seminar, Vol. 55, 2019, pp. 342-359. Editor, with Helga Hallgrímsdóttir, Narratives of Memory, Migration, and Xenophobia in the European Union and Canada (Victoria: ePublishing Services, University of Victoria Libraries, 2019). 304 pages. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/11314. Editor, with Deborah Curran, Cameron Owens, and Elizabeth Vibert, Out There Learning: Critical Reflections on Off-Campus Study Programs (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019). With Megan Harvey, Introduction. Out There Learning: Critical Reflections on Off-Campus Study Programs, Eds. Deborah Curran, Cameron Owens, Helga Thorson, and Elizabeth Vibert (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019) pp. 3-22. With Agatha Schwartz, “The Aesthetics of Change: Women Writers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.” Crossing Central Europe: Continuities and Transformations, 1900 and 2000, Eds. Helga Mitterbauer and Carrie Smith-Prei (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017) pp. 27-49. |
