This research project investigates the value and impact of collective reading of literature aloud regarding the audience’s ability to pay attention to and immerse themselves in literature, and to experience a sense of belonging with one another and with the reader.
Joshua C. Burgoyne explores the Vinland sagas through an eco-critical point of view.
In this project, Postdoc fellow Zack Abrams examines how contemporary Nordic and Anglophone novels set in the High North depict climate change and environmental themes through literary chronotopes, while also evaluating over thirty award-winning novels using the Climate Reality Check to assess characters' awareness and engagement with climate issues.
Karin Kukkonen's project "The Beach Read" is an eco-critical study on reading habits at the beach during holiday. It is an ongoing project from 2024 to 2028.
Kristen Mills’s project “Emotional Environments” explores how the environment and emotions are linked in texts produced in medieval Ireland, Britain, and Iceland.
This research and publication project is a collaboration between Center for Literature, Cognition and Emotions (LCE), and Eco-Emotions.
Based on a series of salons and a writing retreat, the project members are working on a co-authored book which aims to demonstrate how literature and continuous conversations has the potential to lead to new ways of doing interdisciplinary scholarship.
In her project Wayfinding with Monks, Line explores wayfinding as a cognitive and didactic concept in medieval literature.
Each year, Eco-Emotions award some students with a master project scholarship of 15 000 kr. The next deadline of application is October 15th 2025. More information will be postet closer to date.
Magnus Hørnes, Essi Katariina Nuutinen and Sara Louise Gjelsvik West receive the Eco-Emotions master scholarship of 2025.
This is a reading seminar focusing on eco-emotions in the Middle Ages.
In this project, Rebecca Marcella Suter explores the affective use of flowers, and plants more broadly, in Japanese women's literature and manga (comics).
Affiliated member of Eco-Emotions, Reiko Abe Auestad, explores how Okinawan literature is affected by environmental issues from the mid-20th century.
Sissel Furuseth explores how the dual loss of nature and petro-modernity is represented and affectively dealt with in Norwegian contemporary literature.
In the Feeling the Heat project, Teresa Pepe examines how people in the MENA region respond to political and environmental challenges by engaging in everyday practices like food cultivation, water management, and urban gardening. It looks at how these practices are learned, shared through stories, and represented in literature, comics, and films.
