Arctic Discourses

The editors share the project leadership of the ongoing research programme Arktiske diskurser (Arctic Discourses) based at the University of Tromso and funded by the Research Council of Norway. ANKA RYALL has taught English at the University of Tromso, and published on gender and travel writing. Among her recent publications are a book on women's appropriation of travel literature, a co-edited volume on Mary Wollstonecraft's journey to Scandinavia and an article on the travel narratives of Ethel Tweedie. JOHAN SCHIMANSKI is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Culture and Literature, University of Tromso. He has published on Welsh literature, national identity and literature, postcolonialism, science fiction and Arctic discourses. HENNING HOWLID WAeRP is Professor of Scandinavian literature at the University of Tromso. He has published and edited books and articles on Norwegian literature and poetry, and also on the novelists Knut Hamsun and Cora Sandel.