Ahlbäck, Pia Maria
Åbo Akademi University, pahlback(at)abo.fi
Since 2015 I hold a position as Lecturer in Comparative literature at the Swedish language university Åbo Akademi University, in Turku, Finland. My dissertation in English language and literature was a study of environmental discourse in early twentieth century Britain with particular attention to George Orwell’s work (2001). Having since worked in various history and ethnomusicological projects, I have only recently returned to ecocriticism and now take a particular interest in constructions of soundscapes and lightscapes in Scandinavian and British climate fiction.
Antunes, Luis R.
University of Kent, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, luis.antunes(at)mail.ntnu
Ph.D. Candidate in Film Studies and Aesthetics University of Kent and Norwegian University of Science and Technology; website. My main research interests are film experientiality and the perceptual engagement created through the relationship among sensory modalities and film style. For the past few years, I have been exploring a contemporary tendency of cinema where various forms of experiential aesthetics are used as alternative to more conventional narrative approaches to film, namely and among others, through the work of Gus Van San Sant, Knut Erik Jensen, Ki-Duk Kim, Terrence Malick and Andrea Arnold.
Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir
University of Iceland, audurada(at)hi.is
Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir is a research lector and the director of the University of Iceland’s research centre in Þingeyjarsveit, which specializes in environmental humanities.
Auður has a PhD in literary studies from the University of Iceland. Her PhD-thesis on Icelandic literary criticism was published under the title Þvílíkar ófreskjur (2021). Her studies on natural disasters as they appear in contemporary Icelandic fiction are summarized in her book Hamfarir (2023), exploring themes such as climate anxiety, climate change from a gender and equality perspective, posthumanism and postnature. Hamfarir was finished during her time as a postdoctoral researcher at Queen Margrethes and Vigdís Finnbogadóttir’s Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ocean, Climate, and Society (ROCS), a collaborative project at the University of Iceland and the University of Copenhagen. Auður has taught courses in literary criticism, cultural studies and contemporary literature at the University of Iceland. She has also worked as a journalist and editor and hosted a weekly radio show on literature at the Icelandic Broadcasting Service.
Axelsson, Marcus
Østfold University College, marcus.axelsson(at)hiof.no
Marcus Axelsson, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Scandinavian Languages at Østfold University College. His research interests lie within the field of Translation Studies and lately he has directed the interest toward the translation of ecocritical perspectives in translated children’s and YA literature. Together with Associate Professor Barbro Bredesen Opset, he has edited the book Fortellinger om bærekraftig utvikling. Perspektiver for norskfaget (Universitetsforlaget, 2021).
Bambini, Karl Kristian S.
Østfold University College, karl.k.bambini(at)hiof.no
Karl Kristian S. Bambini is a PhD fellow at Østfold University College and is conducting his research training at the University of Agder. Drawing on the fields of ecocriticism and utopian studies, his dissertation discusses how Norway’s recent wave of ecodystopian literature criticizes the Norwegian welfare state, particularly in light of Norway’s green environmental image, oil-driven economy, and rising consumer culture. Bambini completed his master’s at the University of Oslo in 2015 and has previously published on dystopian SF literature.
Bourns, Timothy
University of Iceland, tim(at)hi.is
Timothy Bourns is the postdoctoral researcher on the project Emotion and the Medieval Self in Northern Europe, based at the School of Humanities at the University of Iceland. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford; his thesis demonstrated how animals and humans are interconnected in Old Norse literature, revealing medieval Norse-Icelandic ideas, values, and beliefs about non-human animals and the environment. His current research interests include trémenn (‘tree-men’) and material ecocriticism; animal and non-human emotionality and selfhood; and the relationship between socio-cultural emotive conventions and literary depictions of emotion.
Bowman, Daniel
University of Stavanger, Norway, daniel.bowman(at)uis.no
Dr Daniel Bowman is a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Researcher with the Greenhouse Centre for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger, Norway, where he is currently also acting-Associate Professor of English Literature (2024–2025). His research is at the intersection of literary, animal, automobility, and Indigenous studies, and his first monograph Horsepower: Literature, Animals, and American Automotive Culture, 1890-1940 is forthcoming with Michigan State University Press. His current project “Nation of Mechanics: Animality and Indigeneity in American Automotive Culture” (NOMECH) examines American literature featuring automobiles and Indigenous peoples, considering how American car culture has disavowed the material ecological costs of automobility through symbolic recreations of animal species and Indigenous peoples in car advertising and branding.
Brudin Borg, Camilla
University of Gothenburg, camilla.brudin.borg(at)lir.gu.se
Dr. Camilla Brudin Borg is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her work focuses on innovative methodological development at the intersection of ecocriticism, narrative studies, and literary futures. She leads research projects that explore the use of utopian genres as creative tools for imagining a wider range of possible futures. Her collaborations include climate researchers and environmental education experts working together with citizens and students. In 2022, Dr. Brudin Borg was invited to participate as a panelist during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, where she discussed “The Future of Life” and her explorative work on utopian methodologies to envision sustainable future imaginaries.
She is also the founder and leader of the international research network One by Walking, where she contributes with investigations in transdisciplinary methodological perspectives on narration and walking, with a focus on long-distance hiking. Additionally, she is the co-editor of Contemporary Ecocritical Methods (2024) and the editor of Framtidsutopier (2023), a collection of new ecological utopian stories.
Cederström, Marcus
University of Wisconsin–Madison, cederstrom(at)wisc.edu
Marcus Cederström is the Community Curator of Nordic-American Folklore at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has a PhD in Scandinavian Studies and Folklore from UW-Madison and researches immigration to the United States, identity formation, North American Indigenous communities, and sustainability. For more information, see his website.
Coughlin, Jenna
St. Olaf College, coughl3(at)stolaf.edu
Jenna Coughlin is Assistant Professor of Norwegian at St. Olaf College. She completed her Ph.D. in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on perceptions of local place and changing lanscapes in poetry, as well as perceptions of climate change and its effects in a variety of media. Jenna teaches Norwegian language at St. Olaf, as well as courses on nature in Nordic culture and Arctic literature. She is the director of an undergraduate research project on international responses to Greta Thunberg and the school strikes for climate movement.
Davidsson, Matilda
Linnaeus University, matilda.davidsson(at)lnu.se
I am a doctoral student in literature at Linnaeus University Center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS). My main research interests are Game studies, Animal Studies and Feminist Posthumanities, as well as the broader field of Environmental Humanities. My PhD research project combines these interests and focuses on animals in video games. I consider representations of animals in digital games, player reactions and the juxtaposition of video games and environmental studies. With my colleagues, I am also interested in Intermedial Ecocriticism and examining the affordances of video games to tell stories about environmental change.
Academic page: https://lnu.se/en/staff/matilda.davidsson/
Deschamps Vierø, Camille
camille.deschamps.viero(at)gmail.com
Camille Deschamps Vierø is Franco-Danish and holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Bordeaux Montaigne, affiliated with the Plurielles Research Unit and an associate member of the ERLIS laboratory. Her research is grounded in the field of ecocriticism and focuses on the writing of temporality, the self, and the world. Her dissertation centers on the analysis of the journals and almanacs of Henry David Thoreau, Ernst Jünger, Aldo Leopold, and Karl Ove Knausgård. She explores how these authors, in response to the acceleration of modern time, engage in writing that connects their individual experience to broader temporal cycles of life. This approach demonstrates a move beyond traditional autobiographical perspectives to embrace cycles of time that transcend human existence, marking an ecological turning point in the diarist genre. She currently teaches in secondary education (middle school) and is also an interpreter and translator, working from Danish and Norwegian. A list of some of her publications can be found here.
Degerman, Peter
Mid Sweden University, peter.degerman(at)miun.se
Peter Degerman, is associate professor of Comparative Literature, and vice dean at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Mid Sweden University. He has carried out meta-theoretical studies of literary pedagogy and of the ecocritical aspects of modernist aesthetics. Between 2008 and 2010 he was the editor of the literary monthly, Provins, focusing on questions concerning art and environment. He is also a writer of prose and poetry, having received the Arnold Rörling Price for his 1993 novel Gränsfall. Among his publications within the field of environmental humanities are the monograph Tala för det gröna i lövet: Ekopoesi som estetetik och activism (2018) and the article “The Message of poetry or Poetry as Messenger: The Poetics of Sustainability in the Pedagogical Context” in Kleppe & Sorby Petry and Sustainability in Education (2022).
Drangeid, Magne
University of Stavanger, magne.drangeid(at)uis.no
Magne Drangeid is an associate professor of Nordic literature at the University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway. His latest publications are Jordomseilerne (SAP, 2022), exploring maritime travel literature, and the book chapter “Towards a Sustainable Imagination: Reflections on Olav H. Hauge and the Teaching of Poetry”. In: Kleppe, S.L., Sorby, A. (eds) Poetry and Sustainability in Education. Palgrave Macmillan.
Egeler, Matthias
Goethe University, egeler(at)em.uni-frankfurt.de
Matthias Egeler is Professor of Old Norse Literature and Culture at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Before coming to Frankfurt, he held scholarships and fellowships at Oxford, Cambridge, Munich, Berlin, and Cork. His publications include the open-access volume Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural: Nordic Perspectives on Landscape Theory (New York: Oxford University Press 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197747360.001.0001).
Egerer, Juliane
University of Augsburg, juliane.egerer(at)uni-a.de
Dr. Juliane Egerer is an Academic Lecturer and a scholar of Scandinavian, Nordic, and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies. Her research interests include, among others, Indigenous and non-Indigenous literatures from Northern Europe and North America, transculturality, identity construction, gender issues, decolonization, environmental humanities, and ecocriticism, as well as their interrelations.
Eglinger, Hanna
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, hanna.eglinger(at)fau.de
Hanna Eglinger is Professor of Comparative Literature with a focus on Northern European Literature & Scandinavian Studies at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Prior to this, she served as an assistant professor at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and was a visiting scholar at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich. She studied Nordic Philology, German Literature, and Education at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and Uppsala University in Sweden. Her research interests include decolonizing Arctic history, Arctic primitivism and Arctic literature, contemporary Scandinavian literature, intermediality, body theories, cultural ecological theories, and the poetics of parasitism.
Endreson, Thorunn Gullaksen
SUM – Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo,
t.g.endreson(at)sum.uio.no
Thorunn Gullaksen Endreson is currently working on a PhD on climate change in contemporary fiction. Recent publications include: “’Kli-fi’ på villspor: Klimakrisen i norsk samtidslitteratur”, in Norsk Litterær Årbok 2017. Samlaget 2017 (with Kristian Bjørkdahl and Karen Lykke Syse); “Lesningens uutholdelige letthet: John Eric Rileys Heimdal California” in Norsk Litterær Årbok 2015. Samlaget 2015; “The Essayistic Spirit of Utopia” in Karen Lykke Syse and Martin Lee Mueller (red.). Sustainable Consumption and the Good Life: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Routledge 2015
Evans Tang, Harriet Jean
University of York, harriet.evans(at)york.ac.uk
Harriet is an independent scholar associated with the Universities of York and Durham. Since gaining her PhD from the University of York in January 2018, she has published her monograph (Animal-Human Relationships in Medieval Iceland: From Farm-Settlement to Sagas, 2022) and conducted postdoctoral research on “Cohabiting with Vikings: Social Space in Multispecies Communities” (PI Karen Milek, Durham), and “Bears and bearskins in the medieval North: Human-bear relationships at the intersection between Old Norse literature, laws, place-names and archaeology in Fennoscandia” (independent project funded by The Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture).
Her research focuses on relationships between humans and animals in Viking-age and medieval Iceland and Scandinavia, daily practice of the farm. Harriet takes an interdisciplinary approach to her research and believes it is vital to consider how changing climate, relationships to the past, and identity negotiation play a significant role in past animal-human interactions.
Felcht, Frederike
Goethe University Frankfurt, felcht(at)em.uni-frankfurt.de
Frederike Felcht is a junior professor of Scandinavian Studies at the Institute for Scandinavian Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. Before taking up this post, she was a research fellow at the Institute of Northern Philology at LMU Munich. Her main research area is modern Scandinavian literature. She currently investigates representations of hunger in Scandinavian literature in relation to the history of hunger, focusing on biopolitics, changes in agricultural systems, and the relationship between political and economic concepts of hunger and its literary representation. Before coming to Munich, she taught cultural theory and history at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Scandinavian studies at the University of Greifswald, and international cultural studies and German studies at the University of Mannheim, where she received her PhD in 2011.
Filipsson, Karin
University of Washington, Seattle, filipssonk(at)gmail.com
Karin Filipsson is a PhD Candidate and Swedish instructor at the Department of
Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington where she has also completed a
Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies. She was awarded the Nadia Christensen Prize for
Excellence in Nordic Studies and published the article “Shadows and Silences in Göran
Rosenberg’s Memoir: Jewish Postmemory in the Swedish Welfare State” in Scandinavian-
Canadian Studies, as part of winning the Marna Feldt Publication Award. Furthermore, she
has won the Aurora Borealis Prize, and was awarded the Joff Hanauer Fellowship for
Excellence in Western Civilization, where she explored issues of globalization, migration
and the environment. Karin is also a literary translator and publishes frequently in the journal
Swedish Book Review. She is currently writing her dissertation on contemporary Swedish
postmigrant literature and translating Lo Dagerman’s memoir Heaven is Near.
Fish, Cheryl J.
City University of New York, tribecagal312(at)gmail.com
Professor of English, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, USA, and Docent Lecturer, Dept. of Cultures, University of Helsinki, Finland. Fulbright professor at the University of Tampere, Finland (2007). Website: cheryljfish.com. Research interests: Sami film/Sami narrative and representations of sustainability, ethnicity, gender, and indigenous rights; Sami representations of mining in Sapmi; film and photography engaged with environmental and social justice; Indigenous resistance through writing, film and art to land/water/mining infractions on homelands; Environmental Justice ecocriticism in film, literature and built environments in ethnic American writing and film. Travel literature, gender, and race. Eco-poetics and creative writing, poetry, fiction and bridging the gap between scholarly and creative writing. My poetry collection, The Sauna is Full of Maids celebrates Finnish sauna culture and friendship, and my debut novel Off the Yoga Mat is partly set in Finland and features three characters turning 40 as the year 2000, (Y2K) approaches.
Flinker, Jens Kramshøj
University of Copenhagen, rlx450(at)hum.ku.dk
Jens Kramshøj Flinker is a PhD Research Fellow at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen. As a literary scholar, he has published articles on different aspects of literature and culture, ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. His current research concerns the Nordic novel’s development and response to anthropogenic climate change – and how environmental narratives have an effect on feelings and the attitudes of readers. Most recently he has published the article “Postcolonial eco-realism – Anholt-trilogien and Den beste hausten er etter monsoon” (2020).
Furuseth, Sissel
University of Oslo, sissel.furuseth(at)iln.uio.no
Sissel Furuseth, Professor of Nordic literature at the University of Oslo, publishes on a wide range of ecocritical topics but works mainly in the fields of energy humanities, petroculture studies, and affective ecocriticism. She is the coordinator of the Research Council of Norway-funded project Translatability of Oil. Among her most recent publications are “Petrocultures in the Making: Oil in 1920s Scandinavian Newspapers” (Journal of Energy History, 2023), Økokritisk håndbok (with Reinhard Hennig, 2023), and “Nordic Contemporary Fiction Grieving the Loss of Snow” (NORDEUROPAforum, 2021).
Goga, Nina
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, nina.goga(at)hvl.no
Nina Goga is a Professor of children’s literature at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Her main research interests are environmental children’s literature, ecocritical and ecodidactic approaches to children’s literature. Recent publications: Økokritiske dialoger (edited volume, Goga et.al., 2023) and “Ecocritical dialogues in teacher education” (Goga et al., 2023). Recent project: Green dialogues. Teacher training in environmental children’s literature through dialogic teaching practices.
Guanio-Uluru, Lykke
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, hagl(at)hvl.no
Lykke Guanio-Uluru is Professor of Literature. Her research focus is on literature and ethics, with an emphasis on ecocriticism, critical plant studies, fantasy, and videogame aesthetics. She is the author of multiple research articles and the monography Ethics and Form in Fantasy Literature: Tolkien, Rowling, and Meyer (Palgrave, 2015), and co-editor of Ecocritical Perspectives on Children’s Texts and Cultures: Nordic Dialogues (Palgrave, 2018), Plants in Children’s and YA Literature (Routledge, 2022) and Økokritiske dialoger – innganger til arbeid med bærekraft i lærerutdanningen (Universitetsforlaget, 2023, see https://www.universitetsforlaget.no/okokritiske-dialoger). Guanio-Uluru currently runs the research group “Nature in Children’s Literature & Culture”, see https://www.hvl.no/en/research/group/nachilit/, and the PhD course “Ecocriticism and didactic practices,” running bi-annually in spring semesters of even-numbered years.
Hamm, Christine
University of Bergen, christine.hamm(at)uib.no
Christine Hamm is a Professor of Scandinavian Literature at the University of Bergen. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature with a thesis on the work of Amalie Skram in 2002. Hamm has published books and articles on issues such as marriage, motherhood and the body. Her scholarly work combines gender perspectives with historical and philosophical thinking. Hamm currently participates in an Internordic research project on precariat, precarity and precariousness in Scandinavian literature, with a book project on precarious motherhood. Since 2017, Hamm has been interested in ecocritical perspectives, with a special interest in the Sea. Her thinking is inspired by ordinary language philosophy.
Harmon, Brad
Johns Hopkins University, bharmon6(at)jhu.edu
Brad Harmon (he/him) is a PhD Candidate in Modern Languages & Literatures at Johns Hopkins University, specializing in German and Scandinavian literature, philosophy, and cultural history; modernism; environmental humanities; queer theory; and translation studies. In 2023-2024, he is a guest researcher at Södertörn University (Sweden) and in 2024-2025 at Freie Universität Berlin. His dissertation traces a transcorporeal lyric history of atmosphere in 20th-century German, Swedish and Danish poetry. In addition to a second project on extinction and existentialism, he is co-editor of Rilke’s Poetry and the Horizons of Phenomenology (De Gruyter, 2025) and a special dossier on translation and literary citizenship in the American academy (MLN 138.5, 2023). He is also active as a literary translator of the Scandinavian languages and German. (bradharmon.me)
Heith, Anne
Umeå University, anne.heith(at)umu.se
I am an Associate Professor and Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umeå University. Currently I am working full time with a research project about place-making in Sámi and Tornedalian texts, using theoretical perspectives from geocriticism, ecocriticism and indigenous studies. The project is funded by The Swedish Science Foundation and Umeå School of Education. Website:
https://www.umu.se/personal/anne-heith/
Hennig, Reinhard
University of Adger, reinhard.hennig(at)uia.no
Reinhard Hennig is professor of Nordic literature at the University of Agder, Norway. Together with Sissel Furuseth, he has written Økokritisk håndbok. Natur og miljø i litteraturen (2023), the first Norwegian-language introduction to ecocriticism. With Anna-Karin Jonasson and Peter Degerman, Hennig co-edited the anthology Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment. Ecocritical Approaches to Northern European Literatures and Cultures (2018), and with Emily Lethbridge and Michael Schulte the volume Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies. Nature and the Environment in Old Norse Literature and Culture (2023). He is co-founder and one of the coordinators of ENSCAN, and president of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE).
Hilmer, Ingrid
University of Stavanger, ingrid.hilmer(at)uis.no
Ingrid Hilmer is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Education at the University of Stavanger. Her PhD thesis explores “wicked problems” in children’s literature and literary education for sustainable development.
Höfig, Verena
Ludwig-Maximilians University, verena.hoefig(at)lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Verena Höfig (PhD Berkeley, 2014) is Professor of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. Verena’s research focuses on the intersection of literature, material culture, and social history in Scandinavia from the Viking Age until today. Publications include an article on landscape and memory in the Viking Age and a forthcoming monograph on Iceland’s earliest settlers.
Huntebrinker, Berit
University of Agder, berit.m.huntebrinker(at)uia.no
Berit Huntebrinker is an associate professor of Nordic literature at the University of Agder, Norway. In her doctoral dissertation, she studied picture books and comics from an econarratological perspective to study depictions of environmental citizenship. Her background is an M.A. in Comparative Literature, Scandinavian Studies, and Latin American Studies. Her research interests include comics and other multimodal media.
Hyttinen, Elsi
University of Turku, elshyt(at)utu.fi
PhD, adjunct professor Elsi Hyttinen is a Senior Researcher in Finnish Literature at the University of Turku, Finland (as of 1.8.2019). Her research interests range from class, gender, and (proper) citizenship in early 20th century Finnish fiction to the ways contemporary drama is affected by and makes sense of the global environmental and semantic crisis known as the Anthropocene. Hyttinen was the initiator and organizer of Turku winter school of posthumanist literary studies (2014–18), and a member of the posthumanist research project Sotkuiset maailmat (‘Messy worlds’ 2015–18), led by Lea Rojola. She is currently co-editing an anthology on posthumanist and ecocritical studies of Finnish literature and arts.
Häbler, Camilla
Østfold University College, camilla.habler(at)hiof.no
Camilla Häbler is Assistant Professor of Nordic literature at Østfold University College, Norway. Häbler’s reseach interests include Children’s and Young Adults’ Literature, didactics of literature and Sustainability and Education. Her research within ecocritical studies links studies of literature with the integration of sustainable development as a theme in the Norwegian curriculum. Häbler has contributed in the book Fortellinger om bærekraftig utvikling. Perspektiver for norskfaget (2021) edited by Associate Professor Marcus Axelsson and Associate Professor Barbro Bredesen Opset. Website: https://www.hiof.no/lusp/slik/english/people/aca/camilh/index.html
Johnson, Ida Moen
University of Wisconsin-Madison, imjohnson(at)wisc.edu
I am the lecturer in Norwegian in the department of German, Nordic, Slavic +. I teach courses in Norwegian language and Nordic literature, including courses on Nordic children’s literature and “humans and other animals” in Nordic literature and film. My research interests are in childhood studies, animal studies/posthumanism, and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).
Jonasson, Anna-Karin
Mid Sweden University, anna-karin.jonasson(at)miun.se
I am a lecturer in comparative literature at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSV), Mid Sweden University and I gained my Ph.D. at Åbo Akademi, Finland, in May 2022. In my thesis, The Border Chronotope and the Dissolution of the World of Form. A study of the Border Theme in Kerstin Ekman’s trilogy The Wolf Skin (1999-2003), I explore certain motifs, such as the skin and the water, which play important roles in the novels’ design
of maintenance, transcending and dissolution of boundaries. These boundary phenomena are derived from different contexts — cultural and geographical, as well as abstract and material — and in the novels they appear mainly as recurring patterns in the novels’ subtext. In my ongoing research I continue to examine the Border Chronotope in Swedish provincial literature from the late 19th and early 20th century. Academic website: Link
Kaaz, Brandon Taylor
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, kaaz(at)em.uni-frankfurt.de
Since October 2023, Brandon Kaaz has been a PhD candidate and lecturer in Scandinavian Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. His main research interests are Blue Humanities, Environmental Humanities, Anthropocene Studies, Ecocriticism, New Materialism, Posthumanism and Psychoanalysis. He is currently working on his PhD thesis on “The Blue Uncanny” – an instance of the uncanny related to water/liquids, especially the sea and planetary bodies and systems of water in the age of the Anthropocene. For this, he is looking into Scandinavian poetry written since the Great Acceleration. Brandon is also a sworn translator and interpreter for English and German.
Nora Kauffeldt
University of Basel, Nora.Kauffeldt(at)unibas.ch
Nora Kauffeldt is a PhD candidate in the Department of Nordic Studies at the University of Basel. Her research focuses on the narrative and material transmission of landscape knowledge in Old Icelandic manuscript compilations. She is particularly interested in the cultural and social significance of landscape knowledge and memory in medieval and early modern Icelandic society. Her research areas include spatial and landscape theory, historical geography, and the narrativity of Icelandic sagas. She also works as a hiking guide throughout Scandinavia and has taught at the University of Basel and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Her publications can be found here.
Koesling, Jonas
University of Iceland, jok26(at)hi.is
Jonas Koesling is a PhD-candidate and part-time lecturer in Icelandic Literature at the Department of Icelandic and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities, at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík. He is trained as a philologist and mediaevalist within Scandinavian studies which he has set out to bring into dialogue with blue/ocean-centred material ecocriticism. His research focuses on literary entanglements with the sea, focusing on understandings, representations, and imaginaries of the oceanological physicality of the northern seas. He is interested in all sorts of material and immaterial phenomena of the sea, from waves, tides, and currents, sea-ice, bioluminescence, and bathymetry, to sea-monsters, wave-kennings, and oceanonyms, and the place of them in the mediaeval Scandinavian–Icelandic literature. His current doctoral project investigates such entanglements along a set of case-studies based on four larger sea-areas and Old Icelandic prose, poetry, and placenames associated with them. For more information about Jonas’s work, see: https://www.hi.is/starfsfolk/jok26
Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa
University of Jyväskylä, aino-kaisa.koistinen(at)jyu.fi
PhD Aino-Kaisa Koistinen is a Senior Researcher in Literature at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland (starting from 1 September 2016). Her research interests include media culture and popular culture (especially television), transmediality, science fiction, crime fiction, gender studies and feminist posthumanism. She defended her PhD thesis The Human Question in Science Fiction Television: (Re)Imagining Humanity in Battlestar Galactica, Bionic Woman and V in Contemporary Culture Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, in 2015. She is the vice chair of The Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (Finfar) and one of the editors-in-chief of Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research.
Koponen, Päivi
University of Turku, pjkopo(at)utu.fi
Päivi Koponen, MA, is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at University of Turku, Finland. Her dissertation project examines the ways of using environmental ethics to teach reading literature with non-human co-agency. The theoretical framework of her article-based thesis will consist of a combination of ecocriticism, posthumanism, and new materialism researches.
Künzler, Sarah
University of Glasgow, sarah.kuenzler(at)glasgow.ac.uk
Sarah Künzler is a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at Celtic and Gaelic, University of Glasgow. She received her PhD from the Universität Zürich in 2015 and subsequently held a Swiss National Science Foundation Post-Doc Mobility scholarship at Trinity College, Dublin. Her research interests cover both medieval Irish and Scandinavian literature and culture. With a background in cultural memory studies, Sarah is particularly interested in the interaction between landscapes/places and collective memory, and in how literature reflects an engagement with the local and global spaces.
Kvangraven, Endre Harvold
endrehk@hotmail.com
Endre Harvold Kvangraven holds a PhD in Nordic Literature from the University of Stavanger, Norway, with the dissertation Literary Birding: Human–Bird Relations in Contemporary Novels from Norway and Sweden. He is also the author of Ulv i det norske kulturlandskapet (Wolves in a Cultural Landscape, Res Publica, 2021), a work of literary nonfiction tracing the role of wolves in Norwegian cultural history. Website: endrehk.com
LaFauci, Lauren
Linköping University, lauren.e.lafauci(at)liu.se
Lauren LaFauci is assistant professor of environmental humanities in the Department of Thematic Studies at Linköping University in Sweden, where she also directs the “Multispecies Stories” research area of the Seed Box Environmental Humanities Collaboratory and serves as an international liaison for ASLE, the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. She is part of the interdisciplinary team behind the citizen humanities website, Herbaria 3.0 (www.herbaria3.org), which collects stories about the intertwined relationships between plants and people. Her research and teaching are wide-ranging, focusing on histories of racial formation, medicine, and the body; US literature, history, and culture from to 1900; Scandinavian cultural studies; and multispecies story-telling.
Lahtinen, Toni
University of Helsinki, toni.j.lahtinen(at)helsinki.fi
Toni Lahtinen, PhD, docent is senior lecturer at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His doctoral dissertation Maan höyryävässä sylissä. Luonto, ihminen ja yhteiskunta Timo K. Mukan tuotannossa (2013, In the Steaming Lap of the Land: Nature, Human and Society in the Works of Timo K. Mukka) dealt with ecocriticism and the metaphor of the land as a woman in representations of the Arctic wilderness. Lahtinen has published several ecocritical articles on Finnish literature and is also the co-editor of several publications, including the first Finnish ecocritical anthologies Äänekäs kevät. Ekokriittinen kirjallisuudentutkimus (2008, Audible Spring: Ecocritical Literary Studies), Takaisin luontoon. Ekokriittisiä esseitä kirjallisuudesta (2009, Back to Nature: Ecocritical Essays on Literature), Tapion tarhoilta turkistarhoille. Luonto suomalaisessa lasten- ja nuortenkirjallisuudessa (2011, From The Farms Of Tapio To Fur Farms: Nature in Finnish Children’s Literature) and Lintukodon rannoilta. Saarikertomukset suomalaisessa kirjallisuudessa (2017, Idyllic Shores: Island Narratives in Finnish Literature). He is currently engaged in his research project Environmental Risks, Dystopias and Myths in Contemporary Literature (Academy of Finland, 2017-2020).
Leppänen, Katarina
Gothenburg University, katarina.leppanen(at)lir.gu.se
Katarina Leppänen is associate professor in intellectual history at Gothenburg University in Sweden. Her research focuses, among other things, on the connection of critique of civilization with ecological feminism in the works of Swedish feminist Elin Wägner.
Lethbridge, Emily
Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Research, emily.lethbridge(at)arnastofnun.is
Emily Lethbridge is a research lecturer at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Research and Head of the Department of Onomastics there. She has a PhD in Old Norse literature from the University of Cambridge and current projects include mapping saga texts and Icelandic travel diaries (see http://sagamap.hi.is/is/) and exploring the role of landscape and place-names in the transmission of medieval Icelandic literature from medieval to modern times. She is also developing Nafnið.is, a project that will make the place-names archive held at Árnastofnun searchable and accessible to all. Information about her publications can be found here: https://www.arnastofnun.is/is/stofnunin/starfsfolk/emily-lethbridge.
Leyda, Julia
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, julia.leyda(at)ntnu.no
Julia Leyda (MA & PhD, English, University of Washington, 1998) is Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Art and Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim (website). At NTNU, Julia is a founder of the Environmental Humanities Research Group, a member of TransLit, and an affiliated researcher in GenderHub. Julia is a board member of the NFR’s Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH), the NordPlus network Bringing Research in the Green Humanities into Teaching (BRIGHT), and the NFR’s Asia-Norway Environmental Storytelling Network (ANEST). Her latest research project role is in the NFR’s The Translatability of Oil (TOIL), based at the University of Oslo. Julia has written, edited, or co-edited seven books, including Anthroposcreens: Mediating the Climate Unconscious (Cambridge, 2023).
Löf Nyqvist, Malin
Linköping University, malin.lof.nyqvist(at)liu.se
Malin is a postdoctoral researcher in Literary Studies at Linköping University. She holds a PhD from Umeå University. Her dissertation Hundraårsflöden (2023) explored depictions of floods in contemporary Swedish speculative fiction. Currently, her research focuses on nuclear power plants, reactors and radioactive spaces in Swedish poetry and prose through the lens of geocritical and ecocritical perspectives.
Melkas, Kukku
University of Turku, kukmel(at)utu.fi
Adjunct professor Kukku Melkas is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Turku, History, Culture and Art Studies. Her research interests range from class, gender and literary history to ecocriticism. She has documented early ecological thinking in 1920s’ and 1930s’ Nordic literature and published several ecocritical articles on Finnish literature.
Mendoza, Perry (Brynjarr)
University of Turku, jcmend(at)utu.fi / brynjarrper.mendoza(at)ucb.ca
Perry (Brynjarr) Mendoza is a doctoral researcher in comparative literature at the University of Turku. His dissertation, entitled Poetics, Aesthetics, Desiderium. Loss, the Arts, and Crises of Memory in 21st-Century Literature, explores the relationship between experiences of absence and the arts in contemporary literature. His master’s thesis on Gyrðir Elíasson’s works is the first study to connect contemporary Icelandic literary studies with affect theory, and is being re-worked into a monograph. He has also taken part in teaching Icelandic language and literature, as well as introductory Swedish.
Meurer-Bongardt, Judith
University of Bonn, judithmb(at)uni-bonn.de
Judith Meurer-Bongardt is a researcher and lecturer at the Unit for Scandinavian Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany. She received her PhD in 2011 at Åbo Akademi University in the field of Comparative Literature with a dissertation on utopian thinking in Finlandswedish modernist Hagar Olsson’s work. She has published works on Nordic literature in the anthropocene with a focus on genre, spatiality and temporalities, on plants and animals and on writing and reading as sustainable practices. Currently, she is working on a study with the working title “Under aggravated conditions. Of powerful women, wild men and strange relatives: (Gender) struggles and collaborations in nordic speculative fiction.” https://www.iglk.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/abteilungen/abteilung-fuer-skandinavistik/abteilung/personal/judith_meurer-bongardt
Meyer, Andy
St. Olaf College, meyer41(at)stolaf.edu
Andy Meyer is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Norwegian at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, USA, where he teaches primarily Norwegian language and culture and courses on Arctic literature and history. His teaching and research background are in American literature, with an emphasis on ecocriticism, poetry and poetics, literature of the North American West, and, more recently, Arctic studies. Much of his work is engaged in questions about the relationship between literary imagination and “wildness,” questions that have drawn him toward the American, Canadian, and Scandinavian North. For more info, see www.andyjmeyer.com.
Mohnike, Thomas
University of Strasbourg, tmohnike(at)unistra.fr
Mortensen, Peter
Aarhus University, engpm(at)cc.au.dk
Educated in Denmark (MA in English, Aarhus University) and the US (English PhD, The Johns Hopkins University), Peter Mortensen (engpm@cc.au.dk) is currently associate professor in the Department of Culture and Communication at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has published a book on Romanticism and numerous articles on different aspects of 19th and 20th-century literature and culture, ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. His current research projects include an ecocritical study of Karen Blixen, a collection of essays (co-edited with Hannes Bergthaller) entitled Framing Nature: Explorations in the Environmental Humanities, and book about green lifestyle reformism in early 20th-century literature and culture.
Nygren, Anna
Åbo Akademi, anna.maria.nygren(at)gmail.com
Anna Nygren is a PhD student in literature at Åbo Akademi and teaches literary composition at Gothenburg University. Her research includes horsebooks from a posthumanist perspective (published in LirJournal 2016 and Samlaren 2020), the intersection of neurodiversity and ecocriticism, and her article on animals in Monika Fagerholm’s Vem dödade bambi? is soon to be published.
Opset, Barbro Bredesen
Østfold University College, barbro.b.opset(at)hiof.no
Barbro Bredesen Opset is associate professor of Nordic literature at Østfold University College, Norway. Opset’s reseach interests include postnational identity, globalization and ecocosmopolitanism in literature. Her research within ecocritical studies links studies of literature with the integration of sustainable development as a theme in the Norwegian curriculum. Together with associate professor Marcus Axelsson, she has edited the book Fortellinger om bærekraftig utvikling. Perspektiver for norskfaget (Stories of Sustainable Development; Scandinavian University Press, 2021). In this book, Opset focuses on Simon Stranger’s young adult novel Verdensredderne (‘Saviours of the World’) and shows how the novel contains elements suitable for engaging with the topic of sustainable development. Website: https://www.hiof.no/lusp/slik/english/people/aca/bbo/index.html
Oscarson, Christopher (Chip)
Brigham Young University, christopher_oscarson(at)byu.edu
Christopher (Chip) Oscarson is an associate professor of Scandinavian studies and interdisciplinary humanities at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, USA. His research interests include ecocriticism, ecomedia, and turn-of-the-twentieth century literary and visual cultures of the Nordic region. He has published on ecocritical readings of early Swedish cinema, the work of Selma Lagerlöf, toxic discourse in film and literature, and contemporary environmental fiction. He received his PhD from University of California, Berkeley in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures with a designated emphasis in film, is the past director of the Scandinavian Studies program at BYU, and is currently the coordinator for the university’s International Cinema Studies program.
Persson, Anna
Stockholm University, anna.persson(at)littvet.su.se
Anna Persson is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University. In her PhD project she studies the Danish author Karen Blixen’s short stories, letters and political essays from ecocritical, new materialist and material feminist perspectives. Attention is afforded the connections between human and nonhuman animals and landscape with a particular focus on the materiality of the body. In June 2016 she published the article “Towards an Ecology of the Self: Landscape, Body and Identity in Karen Blixen’s Out of Africa” in European Journal of Scandinavian Studies.
Pihkala, Panu
University of Helsinki, panu.pihkala(at)helsinki.fi
Dr. Panu Pihkala (b. 1979, he/his) from the University of Helsinki is an expert in interdisciplinary eco-emotion research. He is also an adjunct professor of environmental theology (Title of Docent) at the University of Helsinki and a researcher in HELSUS Sustainability Science Institute. Pihkala is currently one of the world’s most cited eco-anxiety researchers, and he serves as an advisor to many practical projects on eco-emotions. In the 2020s, Pihkala has studied eco-emotions and eco-criticism in a Finnish research project on empirical eco-criticism, led by Dr. Toni Lahtinen. Pihkala also hosts the podcast Climate Change and Happiness together with Dr. Thomas Doherty (https://climatechangeandhappiness.com/). His website is www.panupihkala.fi
Radomska, Marietta
Linköping University, marietta.radomska(at)liu.se
Marietta Radomska is the Co-Director of the Posthumanities Hub: https://posthumanities.net/ , a transdisciplinary research platform that since 2008 has been invested in the development of feminist posthumanities and environmental humanities, and is based at KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm and Linköping University, Sweden.
Raipola, Juha
Tampere University, juha.raipola(at)tuni.fi
Juha Raipola, PhD is a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, Finland. His current research is focused on the intersections of material ecocriticism, posthumanism and dystopias in contemporary Finnish literature.
Ritson, Katie
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, katie.ritson(at)carsoncenter.lmu.de
Katie Ritson is a lecturer at the Institute for Scandinavian Studies at LMU Munich and is affiliated with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment. In her research, she is interested in energy cultures, nature conservation, and coastal landscapes in literature. Her first book, “The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands: Literary and Historical Imaginaries” was published with Routledge in 2019. From 2021-2024, she was the recipient of funding from the German Research Foundation for her project “Offshore: Energy Cultures of the North Sea.”
Rosenbæk, Karl Emil
University of Southern Denmark, karlemil(at)sdu.dk
Karl Emil Rosenbæk (1987) holds a PhD in Comparative Literature. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark’s Elite Center for Understanding Human Relationships with the Environment (CUHRE). His primary field of expertise concerns the representation of energy in fiction with special attention given to Nordic petrofiction, coastal fiction, and speculative fiction. As such, his studies align with the nascent field of scholarship gathered under the umbrella term Energy Humanities.
Rudels, Freja
Åbo Akademi University, frudels(a)abo.fi
Freja Rudels will be receiving her phd in comparative literature at ÅAU in September 2016. Her doctoral thesis, ”I berättandets makt. Om tre romankroppar av Per Olov Enquist”, deals with the aesthetical and ethical implications of embodiment in Enquist’s narrating through posthumanist feminist, neo materialist and narratological perspectives. These theoretical perspectives are central also to her up-coming post-doctoral research, which will be focusing on the intersections between subjectivity, poetics and ethics in contemporary Swedish and Finland-Swedish novels.
Rugg, Linda Haverty
University of California, Berkeley, rugg(at)berkeley.edu
I have been a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1999, where I am a professor in the Scandinavian Department. My work on ecocriticism has focused on visual and material cultures, environment and identity formation, colonialism and indigeneity. I teach courses on ecology and culture in Scandinavia and ecocritical theory at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Rättyä, Kaisu
Tampere University, kaisu.rattya(at)tuni.fi
Rättyä is the current co-leader of the research group Subject Matter Didactics at the faculty and is in charge of the team for L1, L2 and literature education. She has been working as a university lecturer in language and literature education since 2009 in class teacher and subject teacher education programmes at the University of Helsinki, the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Tampere. Rättyä’s international networks include different research societies like Association for Research on Language and Literature Education (ARLE) and its special interest groups (SIG) EDULing and Research on Literature Education SIG.
In literary studies, Rättyä has analysed picture books and young adult literature, and her doctoral thesis in literature dealt with themes and narration in young adult novels. Her latest English article in the field of literature studies “Ecological Settings in Text and Picturesfocused on ecocriticism and was published in the book Ecocritical Perspectives on Children’s Texts and Cultures ” (eds. Nina Goga et al). Her Finnish article ”Kohti ekokriittistä kirjallisuuskasvatusta” [Towards ecocritical literature education] was published year 2010 and since that she has written and taught of the theme.
Before her academic career, she was the director of the Finnish Institute of Children’s Literature (1999–2009), which functioned as a national archive, library and research centre. Her responsibilities were to lead several projects on Finnish children’s literature, to organise projects promoting children’s literature and reading and to develop the publication series.
Salovaara, Harri
University of Vaasa, harri.salovaara(at)uwasa.fi
Harri Salovaara, PhD, is a University Teacher in English at the University of Vaasa, Finland. His dissertation for the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, examined male mountain athletes and their relationships to the environment, using a combination of ecocriticism and critical sports and masculinities studies as its theoretical framework. His current teaching and research interests include sustainability in higher education, eco-pedagogy, and ecocritical approaches to the visual arts.
Publications: https://uwasa.academia.edu/HarriSalovaara
Skiveren, Tobias
University of Copenhagen, tobiasskiveren(at)hum.ku.dk
Tobias Skiveren, PhD, Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen.
Skiveren is a literary scholar who works in the intersection between new materialism, postcritique, and the environmental humanities. His work has been published in journals such as New Literary History, Environmental Humanities, and Theory, Culture & Society, and he has written several books about contemporary Danish literature, like Eske K. Mathiesen. En monografi (2015), Den materielle drejning. Natur, teknologi og krop I (nyere) dansk litteratur (2016), and Kødets Poiesis. Kropumulige kroppe i ny dansk litteratur (2020). He is currently PI of ”Environmental Literacy in L1-Education: Greening Danish Literary History,” a collective research project about ecocritical pedagogy, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.
Stokke, Ruth Seierstad
Oslo Metropolitan University, russ(at)oslomet.no
Ruth Seierstad Stokke is a Professor of Norwegian literature didactics, Faculty of Education and International Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University. Her research interests are multicultural aspects of literature, ecocriticism and cognitive literary theory. Currently, her focus is on indigenous literature in an ecocritical perspective, and she is a member of the NTNU research group Indigenous topics in education. She has written an ecocritical analysis of a picturebook version of a Sami Stallo tale published in a special volume of the Nordic Journal of Childlit Aesthetics/BLFT, edited by Nina Goga and Lykke Guanio-Uluru (2020). She has also written about Sami poetry together with Silje Solheim Karlsen. (Norsk litterær årbok, 2021). She has published several articles on the use of picturebooks in classrooms and has co-edited Møter med barnelitteratur (Stokke & Tønnessen, 2021).
Svelstad, Per Esben
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, per.svelstad(at)ntnu.no
Per Esben Svelstad (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor of Norwegian with an emphasis on literature and literary education at NTNU in Trondheim. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. His primary research interest concerns ecocriticism and sustainability in literary education. In particular, he explores how the literary classroom can be an arena for diversity of opinion and a mutually strengthening relationship between literary competence and sustainability skills. Moreover, he attempts to find common ground between queer theory and ecocriticism.
Wagner, Philipp
University of Vienna, philippwagner(at)univie.ac.at
Philipp Wagner is postdoctoral lecturer in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Vienna. His Phd-Thesis Chronotopische Insularitäten. Zur Inseldarstellung in den skandinavischsprachigen Literaturen um 1900 und der Gegenwart (2023, DOI; Chronotopic Insularities. On the Representation of Islands in Scandinavian Literatures around 1900 and 2000) also discusses ecocritical perspectives on its topic. In his recent article “Above the Ocean. Rakel Haslund-Gjerrilds ‘Alle himlens fugle’ (2020) as Scandinavian Example for Flood Fictions” (forthcoming in NordeuropaForum 2024) he focuses on a subset of climate fiction and contributes to the theoretical discourse of blue humanities. His research interests are Blue Humanities, island studies, mobility studies, multilingualism, and intersectionality.
Walther, Sabine H.
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, swalther(at)uni-bonn.de
I am a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Bonn. Between 2015 and 2017, I held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the Arnamagæan Institute (Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen).
I am a medievalist generally interested in Old Norse literature, manuscript culture, cultural transfer to Scandinavia during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, medieval narratology, and memory studies. Several of my recent projects are linked to ecocriticism. I am interested in medieval theories of a correlation between man and nature (already in my dissertation), anthropogonies and the natural world, Classical and Byzantine perspectives on the nature worship of Germanic peoples. I am also organizing a session for the International Medieval Congress 2021: Climates (5-8 July, Leeds, UK) with the topic “Environmental Determinism, Medieval Scandinavia and Beyond.”
Weiss, Dana
Technical University of Munich, dana.weiss(at)tum.de
Dana Weiss is a coordinator for scientific documentation at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Earlier, she worked and was trained as a journalistic editor in a scientific publishing house. She held a postdoctoral Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, completed her PhD in natural sciences and graduated in biology. A sustained interest in the Nordic marine environment as well as in Nordic literature instigated her to learn the Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish languages.
Wennerscheid, Sophie
University of Copenhagen, sophie.wennerscheid(at)hum.ku.dk
Sophie Wennerscheid is an associate professor of Nordic literature at the University of Copenhagen. Her research interests include ecocriticism, literary food studies, and speculative fiction. Among her most recent ecocritical publications are “Transformation Processes toward Low-Impact Pleasure: Rethinking Culinary Art with Karen Blixen’s “Babette’s Feast” (1950) (in Gastronomica. The Journal of Critical Food Studies, 2024) and “‘Har du faret vild i dunkle Skove?’ Litterære refleksioner over det moderne menneskes forhold til skoven” (in Jordskred: Bidrag til den nye naturtænkning, 2024). In her current research project, How to get a taste for change? Farming, food, and the environment in contemporary Nordic literature and film, she explores how today’s rural landscapes, troubled by human impact, are portrayed in Nordic eco-narratives, and how human environmental responsibility is negotiated.
Website: https://nors.ku.dk/ansatte/?pure=da/persons/637569
White, Tiffany Nicole
Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, tiffany(at)hi.is
Tiffany is a postdoctoral researcher based in Iceland. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation focused on an ecotheological reading of Old Icelandic literature. Currently, her research focuses on Old Icelandic saints’ lives, exploring themes such as wilderness, otherness, and the relationship between sin and the depiction of the natural world.
Wikström, Jenny Jarlsdotter
Umeå University, jenny.jarlsdotter.wikstrom(at)umu.se
Jenny Jarlsdotter Wikström is currently writing a PhD thesis in Literary Studies the department for Culture and Media Studies at Umeå University. She is a part of the Gender Studies Research School at Umeå University and the media-archeological network Sensorium. Her research interests touch upon material ecocriticism, feminist materialism, feminist philosophy, and science studies, as well as contemporary scandinavian literature.
Wærp, Henning Howlid
UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, henning.waerp(at)uit.no
I am professor of Nordic Literature working mainly on Norwegian literature from 1800 up to contemporary. I wrote my dissertation on Norwegian nature poetry, published as the book Diktet natur (1997), and have later worked on Arctic literature and the novels of Knut Hamsun – from a ecocritic viewpoint. Website: https://uit.no/om/enhet/ansatte/personp_document_id=41495&p_dimension_id=210121
Zampaki, Nikoleta
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, nikzamp(at)phil.uoa.gr
Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Philology of the
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. She earned her PhD in
Modern Greek Literature from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in
Greece. She was Instructor at the Utah University in the U.S.A. Her disciplines are the
Environmental Humanities, Posthumanities, Digital Humanities and Comparative
Literature. She is Associate and Managing Editor at the scientific journal Ecokritike
and current member of the Education Team of V.I.N.E. at Glenn Research Center of
NASA. She is Series Editor of the “Exeter Studies in Environmental Humanities.
Past, Present and Future Econarratives” at University of Exeter Press and co-Editor of
the book series “Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures” at Rowman & Littlefield.
Research Website: https://en-uoa-gr.academia.edu/NikoletaZampaki
Zavatti, Francesco
Södertörn University | Roma Tre University, francesco.zavatti(at)sh.se
Post-doctoral researcher at Södertörn University, Sweden, and lecturer at Roma Tre University, Italy. He is a Ph.D. in History with research interests ranging from transnational history to history of visual cultures in East European and Scandinavian contemporary history.