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Virtual Talk: The Arctic in Literature

The Arctic is a region that challenges definitions. Despite the picture of a harsh wasteland of ice and snow imagined by many temperate outsiders, it is home to a diverse group of peoples, both Indigenous and settler-colonialist. All of these people—and, it turns out, plenty of outsiders—tell stories, write poems, sing songs, and create images of the Arctic. But what can these stories really tell us about it? In this talk, we will discuss some of those stories, looking for what they might have in common and how they differ, in order to address the question of what literature can tell us about what the Arctic is, and, perhaps, what it isn't.

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Speakers

Andy Meyer

Andy Meyer is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in the Norwegian Department at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. (He is on leave from the University of Washington.) He teaches primarily Norwegian language and courses on the literatures of Norway and the Arctic.
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Andy Meyer

Andy Meyer is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in the Norwegian Department at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. (He is on leave from the University of Washington.) He teaches primarily Norwegian language and courses on the literatures of Norway and the Arctic.

He has also taught Norwegian language for the International Summer School at the University of Oslo. 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 interested in questions about the relationship between literary imagination and “wildness,” questions that have drawn him toward the American, Canadian, and Scandinavian North. In 2015-2016 he was a Fulbright Roving Scholar in Norway, where he traveled the length of the country giving workshops and lectures in 61 schools on the mainland and in Svalbard.

Virtual Talk: The Arctic in Literature

Speakers

Andy Meyer

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