Afterlives: Scandinavian classics as comic art adaptations

About Camilla Storskog

Camilla Storskog is an Associate Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Milan Italy where she teaches Scandinavian literature. In 2023 she was employed at UC Berkeleys Scandinavian Department where she taught courses on comic art adaptations and Scandinavian travel literature. She has focused on interdisciplinary research with special attention to crossovers between literature and the visual arts. Her first book-length study Literary Impressionisms focused on identifying and exploring resonances of impressionism in a field Swedish and Finland-Swedish literature hitherto overlooked in the critical debate on literary impressionism. Her second book is dedicated to comic art adaptations of Scandinavian classics. It examines the ways in which works by H.C. Andersen Ingmar Bergman Karen Blixen Karin Boye Henrik Ibsen Jon Fosse and Zacharias Topelius have travelled across media time place culture and language with emphasis on the aesthetics techniques and narrative machinery of storytelling in the medium of comics.