Ann-Charlotte (Lotta) Gavel Adams

Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Barbro Osher Endowed Professor of Swedish Studies,
University of Washington, Seattle

Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams is Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington in
Seattle, where she teaches both graduate seminars and undergraduate courses in Nordic Drama,
August Strindberg and European Cultural History, Scandinavian Women Writers and Scandinavian
Children’s Literature. Since 2008, she has held the Barbro Osher Endowed Professorship in Swedish
Studies.

Gavel Adams received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1990 for a doctoral dissertation
entitled ‘The Generic Ambiguity of August Strindberg’s Inferno: Occult Novel and Autobiography’.
Among her major publications are the bilingual (French and Swedish) editions of Inferno (volume 37)
and Legender (volume 38) in the National Edition of August Strindberg’s Collected Works. She has
edited and introduced two major volumes on Twentieth-Century Swedish Writers, Before and After
World War II (2002) in the series Dictionary of Literary Biography. In addition, she has published some
twenty scholarly articles on works by August Strindberg, Verner von Heidenstam, Fredrika Bremer and
Astrid Lindgren.

During her year at SCAS, Gavel Adams will work on examining and evaluating the general principles for
recent textual editions of literary works, and in particular focus on the lessons learned from the publication
of the National Edition of August Strindberg’s Collected Works. In this endeavour, she will be joined by
Gunnel Engwall and Elena Balzamo.

This information is accurate as of the academic year 2014-15.