Terje Leiren is Professor Emeritus of Scandinavian Studies and History at the University of Washington, Seattle. He taught at the University of Oslo before joining the UW in 1977. He served as Chair of the Department of Scandinavian Studies from 1995 to 2010. He is the author of four books and numerous scholarly articles on Scandinavian and Scandinavian-American history and culture, most recently a new revised edition of The Historical Dictionary of Norway. Leiren has lived and traveled extensively in Norway's fjord country. He has appeared in several television documentary programs about Scandinavia from the Vikings to World War II, including a documentary on the American years of Norwegian Crown Princess Martha who is the featured character in the PBS Masterpiece series, Atlantic Crossing.

Language spoken: English