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The Critical PetroAesthetics group led by Sissel Furuseth at the University of Oslo has been a really constructive force in my thinking – especially during the pandemic, when our online reading group and discussions were a mainstay. So I’m thrilled to be able to spend non-virtual time with my colleagues and friends in Oslo this […]

“Sweat, Light, and Oil: Seeing the Energy in Roy Jacobsen’s Barrøy Novels” was published in the open-access journal Edda last month. In this article I examine Roy Jacobsen’s Barrøy novels (De usynlige (2013), Hvitt hav (2015), Rigels øyne (2017) and Bare en mor (2020)) for their depiction of energetic processes. I argue that these novels are examples of petrofiction, arising out of […]

On 23 June I will present my project at the Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Colloquium in Freiburg. Looking forward to an interesting discussion!

…this time in Würzburg. Looking forward to discussing the topic with the participants and with the fabulous Julia Leyda in the Environmental Humanities workshop series on 19 May.

This week I am in Trondheim for a five-day interdisciplinary doctoral school organised by NoRS-EH and hosted by NTNU Trondheim. Brilliant people and some exciting discussions so far, I’m looking forward to my own session on energy tomorrow.

Together with my partner in crime Julia Leyda I will be hosting the 19th EASLCE webinar on 31 March. We will be getting stuck in to Cara Daggett’s concept of petro-masculinity and asking questions about oil and gender in European texts and films/TV. More info here: https://www.easlce.eu/19th-easlce-webinar-easlce-webinar-oil-and-gender-in-european-fiction-and-film/

I recently had the chance to read this book by David Larsson Heidenblad. You can read my review of it for H-Soz-Kult here.

I’m a listed speaker at this event on 13 December 2021.

I’m really pleased to see a new review of my book in the journal Literary Geographies – it seems like the natural home for it, and I’m happy to see the book still circulating almost three years after it was published. You can read the review here: https://www.literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitGeogs/article/view/273

“Imagining the Anthropocene with the Wadden Sea,” which I co-authored together with Eveline de Smalen, was published on 17 September 2021 as part of a special issue of Maritime Studies. It is open access and free to download here as part of a special interdisciplinary issue on the Wadden Sea.