Mountain research: looking back and looking forward

Jason offers some final thoughts, and looks ahead. Over the last few weeks we have been tying up some loose threads and bringing our mountains project to a close. We are enormously grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for their investment in the project over the last six years. In the process it has been a … Read more

Looking back down the path

Dawn reflects on the end of project. Seven years (!) ago, I applied for a position as a postdoctoral researcher on a Leverhulme Trust research project, ‘mountains in ancient literature and culture and their postclassical reception’. As a historian I had been fascinated by mountains, and how people interacted with them, for years: I started … Read more

Mountain research spotlight: Paul Gilchrist

This post is part of our ‘mountain research spotlights’ series, sharing the work and insights of colleagues working on mountains across the humanities (and beyond).  Name and institution: Paul Gilchrist, University of Brighton Research summary: I am a historical and cultural geographer with expertise in the geographies of sport and leisure. I have longstanding interests in mountains … Read more

Running a mountains research ‘unconference’

Our project on ‘Mountains in ancient literature and culture and their postclassical reception’ has stretched some way beyond its original 3-year duration – and has ended up having a reach far beyond its already-broad title. Two maternity leaves and the small matter of the COVID pandemic have seen the original end-date of July 2020 pushed … Read more

Mountain research spotlight: Graeme Warren

This post is part of our ‘mountain research spotlights’ series, sharing the work and insights of colleagues working on mountains across the humanities (and beyond).  Name and institution: Professor Graeme Warren, School of Archaeology, University College Dublin | Twitter: @graememwarren Research summary: My research focuses on the archaeology of deep time (prehistoric) hunter-gatherers with a special … Read more

Mountain research spotlight: Joanne Anderson

This post is part of our ‘mountain research spotlights’ series, sharing the work and insights of colleagues working on mountains across the humanities (and beyond).  Name and Institution: Joanne Anderson, University of Aberdeen. Research summary: In broad terms, I study the interaction of the visual culture and experiential dimension of mountain environments in the late medieval … Read more

Mountain research spotlight: Jonathan Westaway

This post is part of our ‘mountain research spotlights’ series, sharing the work and insights of colleagues working on mountains across the humanities (and beyond).  Name and institution: Jonathan Westaway, University of Central Lancashire Research summary: I am a cultural and environmental historian.  My research focusses on imperial cultures of exploration in both polar and … Read more

Mountain research spotlight: Abbie Garrington

This post is part of our ‘mountain research spotlights’ series, sharing the work and insights of colleagues working on mountains across the humanities (and beyond).  Name and institution: Abbie Garrington, Durham University Research summary: I am currently finishing the monograph High Modernism: A Literary History of Mountaineering, 1890-1945, which investigates the significance of mountains, the … Read more

Mountain research spotlight: Christian Quendler

This post is part of our ‘mountain research spotlights’ series, sharing the work and insights of colleagues working on mountains across the humanities (and beyond).  Name and institution: Christian Quendler, University of Innsbruck Research summary: My research project “Delocating Montains: Cinematic Landscape and the Alpine Model” contributes to a new cultural and media history of … Read more

Mountain research spotlight: Jonathan Pitches

This post is part of our ‘mountain research spotlights’ series, sharing the work and insights of colleagues working on mountains across the humanities (and beyond).  Name and Institution: Jonathan Pitches, University of Leeds. Research summary: I have research interests in many aspects of mountain culture,  in environmental theatre and performance and in blended learning. In … Read more