Julie K. Allen holds a Ph.D. in Germanic languages and literatures from Harvard University. Dr. Allen is the Paul and Renate Madsen associate professor of Danish in the Department of Scandinavian Studies, as well as an affiliate faculty member in German, Material Culture, and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she also serves as director of the ScanDesign Fellowship Program. She is the author of Icons of Danish Modernity: Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen, co-translator of The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, and has published extensively on nineteenth and twentieth century German and Danish literature, culture, and film.

Julie K. Allen holds a Ph.D. in Germanic languages and literatures from Harvard University. Dr. Allen is the Paul and Renate Madsen associate professor of Danish in the Department of Scandinavian Studies, as well as an affiliate faculty member in German, Material Culture, and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she also serves as director of the ScanDesign Fellowship Program. She is the author of Icons of Danish Modernity: Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen, co-translator of The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, and has published extensively on nineteenth and twentieth century German and Danish literature, culture, and film.

Julie K. Allen holds a Ph.D. in Germanic languages and literatures from Harvard University. Dr. Allen is the Paul and Renate Madsen associate professor of Danish in the Department of Scandinavian Studies, as well as an affiliate faculty member in German, Material Culture, and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she also serves as director of the ScanDesign Fellowship Program. She is the author of Icons of Danish Modernity: Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen, co-translator of The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, and has published extensively on nineteenth and twentieth century German and Danish literature, culture, and film.