Dr. Helga Thorson
Position
Associate Professor
Germanic and Slavic Studies
Contact
Office:
CLE D242
Credentials
PhD (U of Minnesota)
Area of expertise
Modernist German and Austrian literature, Scandinavian studies, gender studies, history of medicine, foreign language pedagogy, and Holocaust studies
Dr. Helga Thorson is an associate professor in the department of Germanic and Slavic studies. 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.