Kimberly Kenny teaches beginning and intermediate Norwegian language, and Norwegian literature. Trained as a literary comparatist, she teaches courses that seek to integrate Germanic literatures such as "Reconnecting Two Germanic Literatures," which examines connections between Knut Hamsun and Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann and Alexander Kielland, and Henrik Ibsen and Gerhart Hauptmann; “Comparative Fairy Tale,” which encompasses Norwegian, Danish (H.C. Andersen), and German (Brothers Grimm) fairy tales, and “Scandinavian Women’s Literature.” In a strictly Norwegian vein, she offers a course on Ibsen, as well as one about the Nazi Occupation of Norway called, “Literature of the Occupation.” Kenny is Senior Instructional Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago.