About:

Troy Wellington Smith is a PhD student and Graduate Student Instructor in the Department of Scandinavian at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is co-organizer of the Translation Studies Working Group. His area of academic interest is the Danish Golden Age, and he has translated texts by Thomasine Gyllembourg and Hans Christian Andersen. His translation of Gyllembourg's En Hverdags-Historie is scheduled to appear in The Bridge, the journal of the Danish American Heritage Society.