Scholars

Ana Stanićević holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Iceland and is an associate professor of Norwegian and Norwegian literature at the University of Helsinki. She has researched, among other things, the influence of ecocriticism and feminist ecocriticism on contemporary Nordic literature and Nordic micro-publishers.

Katarina Leppänen is a professor at the Department of Literature, Ideas, and Religions at the University of Gothenburg. Her research combines intellectual history and literary studies. Her recent scholarly articles can be found, among other places, in The Routledge Handbook on Ecofeminism and Literature and in Storying the Ecocatastrophe: Contemporary Narratives and the Environmental Collapse (ritstj. Duffy & Leppänen, 2024). Katarina co-edited Creative Responses to Environmental Crises in Nordic Art and Literature with Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir (2025). 

Auður is a research lecturer in environmental sciences and director of the University of Iceland's Research Station in Þingeyjarsveit. She has conducted research on Icelandic literature and art from an ecocritical perspective and is the author of the book Hamfarir í bókmenntum og listum (2023).