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

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

Mountain research spotlight: Lachlan Fleetwood

This post marks the first in the series of our ‘mountain research spotlights’ series, sharing the work and insights of colleagues working on mountains across the humanities (and beyond).  Name and institution: Lachlan Fleetwood, LMU Munich Research summary: My first book is a history of science and empire in the Himalaya, and shows how altitude … Read more

‘Pagan’ classics, Christians, and a Late Antique world-mountain

In our first guest post, Douglas Whalin explores the sixth-century Christian author Kosmas Indicopleustes and his cosmological model of the world as, literally, a mountain. Douglas is a social historian of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (approx. 4th to 9th centuries CE). He has a chapter forthcoming in our Mountain Dialogues volume on … Read more