Timothy Bourns

Assistant Professor
Picture of me with an active volcano in Iceland

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Biography

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, as well as animal studies, ecocriticism, sustainability, objects, emotions, dreams, and myths.

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