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Katie Ritson

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Keywords: North Sea - Petroculture - Conservation Humanities
Affliation: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Katie Ritson is a scholar of Northern European literature and environmental humanities. She is currently assistant professor in the Institute for Scandinavian Studies and affiliated researcher at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society at LMU Munich. Her first book, The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands: Literary and Historical Imaginaries (Routledge 2019) explored the coasts of the North Sea in literatures written in German, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, and English over almost two centuries. She has continued to research and write about the North Sea, most recently in the context of fossil fuel extraction. Her other interests include conservation and landscape protection; energy history; and literature and interdisciplinarity.

Katie was Co-PI of the project “Corridor Talk: Conservation Humanities and the Future of Europe’s National Parks” which ran from 2020-2023. She is currently a member of the European Conservation Humanities Network and the Netzwerk Energie und Literatur, both funded by the German Research Council, and of the DAAD-funded project European Societal Challenges in German Culture: Exploring Ageing and Climate Change in Tandem. She is a coordinator of the Ecocritical Network in Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN) and on the board of the journal Nordeuropaforum.