The Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS) is a scholarly society that aims to advance the study, teaching and research in America of the languages, literature, history, culture and society of the Scandinavian or Nordic countries and to foster closer relationships between people interested in the field of Scandinavian studies.
The Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS) was founded in 1911.
[2] The society publishes the quarterly journal Scandinavian Studies (ISSN 0036-5637), which has been published by Brigham Young University, and since 2013 by the University of Illinois Press.
Susan Brantly, professor of Scandinavian Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is the current editor.
[3] The society also publishes an internal newsletter, SASS News and Notes (ISSN 0891-7477) and arranges an annual conference.