Lotta Löfgren

(1993)
Lecturer

20th Century and Contemporary Literature and Drama

Degrees

Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1990
B.A. Oberlin College, 1973

Book

  • Selected Poems of August Strindberg. Edited and Translated by Lotta M. Löfgren. (Includes a 37 page critical introduction.) Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.

Articles

  • The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia. Edited by Philip C. Kolin. [Book review] Southern Humanities Review 39 (Summer 2005): 291-97.
  • “Clay and Clara: Baraka’s Dutchman, Kennedy’s The Owl Answers, and the Black Arts Movement.” Modern Drama 46 (Fall 2003): 424-49.
  • August Strindberg, “Saturday Evening,” “Street Pictures” (translated from the Swedish). Scandinavian Review 88 (Autumn 2000) 67-69.
  • “Rita Dove.” Dictionary of American Literary Biography. Detroit, Washington, D.C., London: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1999 (Original entry by Kirkland Jones edited and updated; pp. 40-43 my submission).
  • “Partial Horror: Fragmentation and Healing in Rita Dove’s Mother Love.” Callaloo 19.1 (1996), 135-142

Honors

  • Recipient of the 2000 American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize for translations of the poetry of August Strindberg