Colin Connors (He/Him/His)

Electronic Media Producer

Lecturer

A portrait of Colin Gioia Connors

Contact Information

RAI 305 Q

Office Hours

by appointment

Fields of Interest

Digital Humanities Folklore Icelandic Indigenous Medieval Norwegian Old Norse Public Scholarship

Biography

Ph.D., Scandinavian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2021

Creator/host of the podcast, Crossing North.

Research

Selected Research

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. Download PDF
Connors, Colin Gioia. 2021. "A Social Analysis of Place-Names in Hrafnkels saga." PhD dissertation. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Cederström, B. Marcus, Tim Frandy, and Colin Gioia Connors. 2018. "Indigenous Sustainabilities: Decolonization, Education, and Collaboration at the Ojibwe Winter Games." Journal of Sustainability Education 18(March): online. Download PDF
Cederström, B. Marcus, Colin Gioia Connors, Thomas DuBois, Tim Frandy, and Carrie Roy. 2016. "Wiigwaasi-Jiimaan: These Canoes Carry Culture." Documentary film. Vimeo.
Cederström, B. Marcus, Tim Frandy, Thomas A. DuBois, and Colin Gioia Connors. 2016. "Heritage Repatriation at an Ojibwe Public School: A Partnership of Folklorists and Community Educators." Journal of Folklore and Education 2016(3): 31-41. Download PDF
Connors, Colin Gioia, trans. 2015. The eSaga of Hrafnkell Freysgoði: A New Translation of “Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða." Apple Inc.: iTunes Store. IBA file.
Milek, Karen, Davide Zori, Colin Connors, Waltraud Baier, Kate Baker, and Jesse Byock. 2014. "Interpreting Social Space and Social Status in the Viking-Age House at Hrísbrú Using Integrated Geoarchaeological and Microrefuse Analyses." In Viking-Age Archaeology in Iceland: the Mosfell Archaeological Project, ed. Davide Zori and Jesse Byock, pp. 143-62. Turnhout: Brepols. Download PDF
Connors, Colin Gioia. 2014. "Viking-Age Routes, Landscape, and Power in the Mosfell Region." In Viking-Age Archaeology in Iceland: the Mosfell Archaeological Project, ed. Davide Zori and Jesse Byock, pp. 207-19. Turnhout: Brepols. Download PDF

Courses Taught

Spring 2025

SCAND 431 A: The Northern European Ballad

Autumn 2023

SCAND 370 A: The Vikings

Autumn 2022

SCAND 370 A: The Vikings

Spring 2022

SCAND 334 A: Immigrant and Ethnic Folklore

Related News

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Crossing North podcast continues with Season 2 (December 13, 2019)

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