Draft:Birgitta Steene

Professor Emeritas Birgitta Steene (1928–2023) was a leading scholar in Scandinavian Studies. Steene was Chair of the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington from 1973 onwards. Steene was co-founder of the Film Studies Program at the University of Washington. In 1982, Steene received an honorary doctorate from her alma mater, Uppsala University in Sweden.

Steene has published extensively on Scandinavian literature, drama, and film. Steene has written a reference guide on Ingmar Bergman in 2005.