The essay collection Creative Responses to Environmental Crises in Nordic Art and Literaturehas now been published. The book highlights the complex and important role of art, literature, and other creative practices in responding to a changing world shaped by climate change, biodiversity loss, and other environmental threats.

The editors are Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir, director of the University of Iceland’s Research Centre in Þingeyjarsveit, and Katarina Leppänen, professor of the history of ideas at the University of Gothenburg.

Contributors to the book include both established and emerging scholars in the field of Nordic ecocriticism. Several of them are connected to the University of Iceland and the Iceland University of the Arts. In addition to Auður, these include Angela Snæfellsjökuls Rawlings and Sigrún Inga Hrólfsdóttir, both practicing artists who have taught at the Iceland University of the Arts; Ole Martin Sandberg, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Iceland’s Institute of Philosophy; and Ana Stanićević, who completed her PhD in the School of Humanities at the University of Iceland and is now a lecturer in Nordic literature at the University of Helsinki. Other authors include Katarina Leppänen, Johan Alfredsson, Torsten Bøgh Thomsen, Georgiana Bozîntan, Camilla Brudin Borg, Xin Liu, and Karoliina Lummaa.

The book also features artworks by Þórdís Aðalsteinsdóttir and Hildi Hákonardóttir.

The essay collection can be ordered with a 30% discount on the publisher’s website
Discount code: LXFANDF30

To mark the publication, a series of art exhibitions will be held exploring the interplay between the local, regional, and global in environmental art and activism. On 16 May 2025, the group exhibition Creative Responses will open at Gallerí Specta in Copenhagen, and on 27 November 2025, the group exhibition Viðbragð (Response) will open at the Ketilhús gallery of the Akureyri Art Museum.