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
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
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
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
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
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
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