Welcome to the meeting with Hester Bloom about her book The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration (Duke University Press, 2019) she has just published and about her new project on ice and temporality (Seed Box project).

When: 16th May, 13:30 – 15:00

Where: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, EHL Labroom, Teknikringen 74D, Stockholm

Hester Blum is Associate Professor of English at Penn State University in the US. Her scholarship and teaching focus on oceanic and polar studies, nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture, Herman Melville, and the environmental humanities. Her most recent book is The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration (Duke University Press, 2019). In it she examines polar expeditionary newspapers and other forms of knowledge that circulate geophysical and climatic extremity, both in the age of polar exploration and in our current moment of climate change and polar resource extraction. In summer 2019 she will participate in the Northwest Passage Project, an Arctic expedition tracking climate change. She is at work on two new book projects: Ice Ages, about the temporalities of ice in an epoch of anthropogenic climate change; and Castaways, a meditation on female Robinson Crusoes.​