Merrill Kaplan
Assistant Professor of English
464 Denney Hall
164 West 17th Avenue
Columbus, OH
43210
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Areas of Expertise
- Old Norse-Icelandic literature
- History of folklore studies
- Myth and mythography
- British fascination with the medieval North
- Legend and folk belief
- Scandinavian National Romanticism
- Medieval Iceland and Scandinavia
Education
- PhD, 2006, University of California, Berkeley
Specializations: Old Norse-Icelandic literature, folklore on and off the Internet, and nineteenth-century Norwegian literature and culture.
Articles on: Irruptions of the past and the supernatural in Icelandic sagas; Out-Thoring Thor in the Great Saga of Olaf Tryggvason; Ibsen's Dramatic Realism and the publication of folklore collections; The Icelandic reception of Ibsen's The Vikings at Helgeland.
Major courses taught: Nordic Mythology; The Medieval Icelandic Saga; Legend; Myth; Old Norse-Icelandic Language