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Lecturer Part-Time
Assistant Professor
Associate Teaching Professor
Latest News
- Tim Bourns at UC Berkeley: Animal Minds in the Medieval North (March 6, 2026)
- The Patricia L. Conroy Endowment Fund for Old Icelandic, Old Norse and Faroese Studies (February 15, 2013)
Related Research
- 'Cats in Medieval Icelandic Life and Literature', in The Cat's Pyjamas: Cats in Culture and Society, eds. Charlotte Doesburg and Riitta Valijarvi (Freeland (Oxfordshire): Inter/Connexions) [forthcoming]
- 'Introducing Eco-Norse: Settlement, Environment, and Narrative in Medieval Iceland', in Eco-Norse: Essays on Old Norse Literature and the Environment, eds. Timothy Bourns and Carl Phelpstead (London: Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London, 2026), v–xii
- 'Driftwood and the Divine: Ecocritical Readings of trémenn', in Eco-Norse: Essays on Old Norse Literature and the Environment, eds. Timothy Bourns and Carl Phelpstead (London: Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London, 2026), 97–124
- 'Blood, Rain, and Tears: Eco-Emotive Metaphor in the Medieval North', in Cultural Models for Emotions in the North Atlantic Vernaculars, 700–1400, eds. Edel Porter and Javier E. Díaz-Vera (Turnhout: Brepols, 2025), 201–19
- 'Trees, Temporal Eternity, and the Norse Mythos', Medieval Ecocriticisms 5 (2025), 85–105
- ‘Can We Access a Counter-Narrative to the Vínland Sagas through Kalaallit Oqaluttualiaat?’, in Colonial Entanglements and the Medieval Nordic World: Norse Colonies and Indigenous Peoples, eds. Cordelia Heß, Solveig Marie Wang, and Erik Wolf (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, December 2024), 49–74
- ‘Animal Emotionality and Selfhood in Old Norse Textual Culture', Emotions: History, Culture, Society 8.1 (June, 2024), 97–115
- 'Trees in the Saga Dreamscape', in Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies: Nature and the Environment in Old Norse Literature and Culture, eds. Reinhard Hennig, Emily Lethbridge, and Michael Schulte (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023), 65–85
- Connors, Colin Gioia. 2022. "Translating Context with Digital Media in Medieval Icelandic Literature: Hrafnkels saga and The eSaga Project." In Culture Work: Folklore and the Humanities for a 21st Century Public, ed. Tim Frandy & Marcus Cederström, pp.302-11. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
- ‘Becoming-Animal in the Icelandic Sagas’, Neophilologus 105.4 (August, 2021), 633–53