Liina-Ly Roos received her PhD from the University of Washington, and she taught at the University of Minnesota before joining the German, Nordic, Slavic+ department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In her teaching and research, she specializes in 20th- and 21st-century Nordic and Baltic culture. This includes various artistic and cultural negotiations of colonial and racial histories, as well as gender and sexual politics in the hybrid region that Northern Europe is. Liina-Ly’s recent book, The Not-Quite Child: Colonial Histories, Racialization, and Swedish Exceptionalism (University of Washington Press, 2025), examines 21st-century cultural texts that incorporate a child figure who disrupts and rethinks the idealized and normative idea of Swedish childhood in order to rethink colonial histories and racial hierarchies in Sweden. She has published articles in the Journal of Scandinavian Studies, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, Journal of Baltic Studies, Methis: Studia humaniora estonica, and Baltic Screen Media Review.