Faculty
Weinstock, John
Professor
Office: EPS 3.150
Phone:512-232-6369
weinstock@mail.utexas.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research interests:
Sami Culture and Civilization, Promotion of Scandinavian Studies in the U.S., Norwegian Language and Literature, Scandinavian Music, Scandinavian Linguistics, Old Norse Language and Literature, General and Historical Linguistics, Scandinavian Music.
Current research:
Current projects: 1) Working on Tristan site (www.utexas.edu/courses/tristan) with graduate student from Music supported by LAITS grant; 2) Finishing translation of Samenes historie (The History of the Sami fram til 1750, Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, 3rd edition) by Lars Ivar Hansen and Bjørnar Olsen, 427 pages. My English translation has been completed apart from minor corrections and will be published by Brill later in 2007); 3) I will be presenting a paper at a Sami symposium in Bergen, Norway in November of 2007. In the paper I compare the latest historical, archaeological and genetic research on the earliest prehistory of the Sami.
Courses taught:
Midnight Sun People (Sámi culture); Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, Tristan and Isolde, and Parsifal, Viking Age literature, seminar in translation: theory and practice.
Awards/Honors:
Many grants and awards: recently, travel grants from the Norwegian foreign ministry; UT research grant; annual awards from Liberal Arts instructional technology services; and more.
Recent Publications:
Laila Stien, Antiphony. Tr. J. Weinstock. Nordic Studies Press, Chicago, 2007.
"Languages and Linguistics in Today's World." Revista Europea, 2006.
"What Goes Around Comes Around: Sámi Time and the Question of Indigeneity." ELAMA (Eurolinguistics), forthcoming 2007.
Johan Anders Bær, Yoiker, Reindeer Herder, a 34-minute film by John Weinstock.
YOIK, a 32-minute film by John Weinstock and Christian Stannow, 2006.
"The Bear Went Down the Mountain: Sami language usage then and now." Linguistica, vol. 45, 2005.
Review of Veli-Pekka Lehtola. The Sámi People -- Traditions in Transition. Tr. Linna Weber Müller-Wille. Aanaar -- Inari, Finland: Kustannus-Puntsi 2004, 139 pp including 95 pictures, drawings and maps (17 in color). 20. Báiki, 2005
"The Role of Skis and Skiing in the Settlement of Early Scandinavia." The Northern Review #25/26 (Summer 2005): 172-196.
Pia Sillanpää. The Scandinavian Sporting Tour: A Case Study in Geographical Imagology. Östersund, Sweden: ETOUR (European Tourism Research Institute) Vetenskapliga Bokserien V 2002:9, ix + 242 including 33 figures and maps. Forthcoming Scandinavian Studies 2005.
Reviews of Pentikäinen/Vähämäki: Lars Levi Læstadius: Fragments of Lappish Mythology and of Knutsen/Posti: Lars Levi Læstadius: Fragmenter i lappska mytologien: Gudalära, Scandinavica, 2004.
Biejjienbaernie (The Son of the Sun) a simultaneous edition in South Sámi, North Sámi and English of the epic poem "The Son of the Sun's Courting in the Land of the Giants," the poem "The Death of the Sun's Daughter" and Harald Gaski's article on the two poems translated into English by J. W. Karasjok: Davvi Girji, fall 2003.
Sámi culture web site. URL: http://www.utexas.edu/courses/sami/
Skis and Skiing: From the Stone Age to the Birth of the Sport. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.