Senior Lecturer — Ph.D. in German Studies and Humanities, Stanford University.

Sandra Ballif Straubhaar’s research has focused on the following areas, among others: The construction of ethnicity and national identity in central and northern Europe, early modern to nineteenth century; Scandinavian medievalism, eighteenth-century to current; European and north American medievalism, eighteenth-century to current; women in the Viking age; Eddic and skaldic poetry; the Nordic ballad tradition, and its interface with the Anglophone one; gendered hags and monsters in the late-medieval legendary sagas, particularly Hrafnistu manna sögur; transgressive women in the Icelandic family saga, particularly Laxdœla saga; and normative trends in northern European children’s literature traditions.