Prof. Maria Lindgren Leavenworth

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Department of Language Studies, Umeå University, Sweden

Bio: Maria Lindgren Leavenworth is Professor of Modern English Literature at the Department of Language Studies, Umeå University, Sweden. Her research with focus on travel literature, nordicity, and the Arctic has resulted in articles on 19th-century travel writers Selina Bunbury, Bayard Taylor, and S. H. Kent, as well as on contemporary fictional works by Ursula K. Le Guin, Dan Simmons, and Michelle Paver. She is the author of The Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction (Routledge, 2023), which traces the ways in which the Arctic is imagined and what function it is made to serve in a selection of non-mimetic works, from Mary Shelley’s 1818 Frankenstein to contemporary works that engage with the vast ramifications of anthropogenic climate change.