Contact
Leopoldstr. 11a, 2. OG, 245
D-80802 Munich
Room:
224
Phone:
+49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 72374
Email:
katie.ritson@carsoncenter.lmu.de
Katie Ritson is an assistant professor in Scandinavian studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich. She worked at the RCC as an editor between 2009–20 and was an RCC research fellow between 2020–24.
Katie studied German, comparative literature, and Scandinavian studies at the University of Cambridge, UK, and LMU Munich, completing her doctorate in 2016 with a dissertation on vulnerable coasts in literature. Her postdoctoral project Offshore: Energy Cultures of the North Sea (2021–24) was funded by the German Research Council. Katie is a co-coordinator of the DFG-funded European Conservation Humanities Network and a coordinator of the Ecocritical Network in Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN).
Selected Publications:
- with Nicole Seymour. “Anti-Pastoral Allegory: The Nature of State Care in Ali Abbasi’s Film Border (Gräns).” Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture 1, no. 1 and 2 (2024). https://doi.org/10.16995/regeneration.16507.
- “Sweat, Light, and Oil: Seeing the Energy in Roy Jacobsen’s Barrøy Novels.” Edda: Scandinavian Journal of Literary Research 109, no. 2 (2022): 126–39. https://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/edda.109.2.4.
- “The View from the Sea: The Power of a Blue Comparative Literature.” Humanities 9, no. 3 (2020): 68. https://doi.org/10.3390/h9030068.
- with Astrid Bracke, eds. “Waters Rising.” Special issue, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 24, no. 1 (2020): 1–5. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rgrl20/24/1?nav=tocList.
- The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands: Literary and Historical Imaginaries. London: Routledge, 2019. https://www.routledge.com/The-Shifting-Sands-of-the-North-Sea-Lowlands-Literary-and-Historical-Imaginaries/Ritson/p/book/9780367077211.