Bio
Guðrun í Jákupsstovu was in 2020 elected as one of the two doctoral students for the SNSF-funded project The Beach in the Long Twentieth Century, supervised by Prof. Dr. Virginia Richter and PD Dr. Ursula Kluwick. Prior to this, she obtained an MA in Comparative Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam, and a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Iceland. Her dissertation examines contemporary British and Scandinavian nature writing texts that situate questions and understandings of Anthropocene temporalities in littoral spaces, such as beaches, coasts, and islands.
Research interests
Anglophone and Scandinavian literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries, nature writing, creative nonfiction, ecocriticism, environmental humanities Anthropocene studies, temporalities, deep time, mythologies, new materialism and blue humanities
