Timothy Bourns

Timothy Bourns is Assistant Professor of Old Norse in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington. He holds a doctorate in English (Old Norse) from St John's College, University of Oxford, and has held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Iceland and the University of British Columbia and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at University College London. His academic interests include Old Norse-Icelandic, Old and Middle English, Greenlandic, medievalism, and fantasy. He publishes widely on animal studies, ecocriticism, sustainability, objects, emotions, dreams, and myths.