| Eglāja-Kristsone, Eva and Vērdiņš, Kārlis. Flâneuses' Performances Abroad, Peripheral Literature and New Nation-State. The Flâneuse in Literature and Culture: Women Wandering Purposefully. Ed. Jeff Birkenstein and Irina Gendelman. London – New York: Routledge, 2027, 69-81. |
Publications, Articles |
20th Century, Baltic Studies, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Latvian, Modernism |
| Vērdiņš, Kārlis. A Fan of Doom Metal, a Descendant of French Kings: Postcoloniality in Doom 94 by Jānis Joņevs. The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place. Ed. by Arnab D. Roy, Paul Ugor and Simone Maria Puleo. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2026, 255–272. |
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20th Century, East European, Latvian, Literature, Postcolonial |
| '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] |
Publications, Articles |
Animal Studies, Icelandic, Literature, Medieval, Old Norse |
| Vērdiņš, Kārlis and Ozoliņš, Jānis. Melancholic Sons and Dying Mothers: Queerness in (Post)Soviet Baltic Fiction. Journal of Baltic Studies, 2025, Vol. 56, No. 2, special issue Cultural Heterologies and Democracy: Culture in the Baltic countries in the 1990s, pp. 385–400. |
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20th Century, Baltic Studies, Latvian, Literature, Psychology |
| Gunn, Olivia Noble. "All the Vulnerable Boys: Child-Saving Conjured in Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf and Hiro Kanagawa's Indian Arm." Modern Drama, vol. 68 no. 2, 2025, p. 205-229. Project MUSE. |
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19th Century, 21st Century, Comparative Literature, Drama, Indigenous, Norwegian |
| Larson, Katherine, Marta K. Juuhl and Monika Ravnanger. "Twill weaving on the warp-weighted loom: reconsidering double-notched supports." Archaeological Textiles Review No.67, 2025, pp. 108-120. |
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Science and Technology, West European |
| '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 |
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Ecocriticism, Icelandic, Literature, Medieval, Old Norse |
| '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 |
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Ecocriticism, Folklore and Mythology, Icelandic, Medieval, Old Norse |
| '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 |
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Comparative Literature, Ecocriticism, Medieval, Old Norse, Psychology |
| 'Trees, Temporal Eternity, and the Norse Mythos', Medieval Ecocriticisms 5 (2025), 85–105 |
Publications, Articles |
Anthropology, Ecocriticism, Folklore and Mythology, Medieval, Old Norse |
| Gunn, Olivia Noble. “Knausgård’s Scandalous ‘Labia’: Shame, Re-Enchantment, and the Pursuit of a More Imaginative Sex Education.” Scandinavian Studies, vol. 96, no. 3, 2024, pp. 92–116. |
Publications, Articles |
21st Century, Body, Education, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Literary Criticism, Literature, Norwegian, Scandinavian Literature and Culture |
| Svede, Mark Allen with Vērdiņš, Kārlis. Nearly Underground in the Near-Abroad: Outliers in Soviet Baltic Culture. The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture. Ed. by Mark Lipovetsky, Ilja Kukuj, Tomás̆ Glanc, Maria Engström, and Klavdia Smola. New York – Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 303–331. |
Publications, Articles |
Art History, Baltic Studies, Estonian, Latvian, Literary Criticism, Lithuanian |
| 'A Way Forward? Discussing Colonial Entanglements and Medieval Studies: Postphase', with Cordelia Heß, Maya Sialuk Jacobsen, and Christian Koch Madsen, 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), 289–306 |
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Indigenous, Medieval, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, Social Justice |
| ‘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 |
Publications, Articles |
Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Indigenous, Old Norse, Postcolonial |
| ‘Animal Emotionality and Selfhood in Old Norse Textual Culture', Emotions: History, Culture, Society 8.1 (June, 2024), 97–115 |
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Animal Studies, Icelandic, Medieval, Old Norse, Textual Studies |
| Clare, Stephanie D., and Maxine Savage. 2024. ”Trans Milieus: Sex/Gender and the Critique of ’Nature.’” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 11 (4): 572-593. |
Publications, Articles |
20th Century, 21st Century, Ecocriticism, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Literature |
| Vērdiņš, Kārlis. Unspeakable Race of Roma and Peripheral Leftist Feminist Modernism. Slavic and East European Journal, Spring 2023, Vol. 67, No. 1, 66–84. |
Publications, Articles |
20th Century, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Latvian, Modernism, Race and Ethnicity |
| '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 |
Publications, Articles |
Critical Theory, Ecocriticism, Icelandic, Medieval, Old Norse |
| Olivia Noble Gunn. “Siss/Unn/ingen: The Queer Revenant in Is-slottet.” Edda, vol. 110, no. 2, 2023, pp. 90–102, https://doi.org/10.18261/edda.110.2.3. |
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20th Century, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Literature, Norwegian, Queer Studies, Scandinavian Literature and Culture |
| Vērdiņš, Kārlis. History, Trauma and Narrative Perspective in “A Woman in Amber” by Agate Nesaule. Journal of Baltic Studies, 2021, 52:2, 179-191. |
Publications, Articles |
20th Century, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Latvian, Literary Criticism |
| ‘Becoming-Animal in the Icelandic Sagas’, Neophilologus 105.4 (August, 2021), 633–53 |
Publications, Articles |
Animal Studies, Critical Theory, Icelandic, Medieval, Old Norse |
| ‘The Language of Birds in Old Norse Tradition’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 120.2 (April, 2021), 209–38 |
Publications, Articles |
Animal Studies, Folklore and Mythology, Icelandic, Medieval, Old Norse |
| Vērdiņš, Kārlis un Ozoliņš, Jānis. Latvian LGBT Movement and the Narrative of Normalization. Maryna Shevtsova, Radzhana Buyantuyeva (eds.). LGBTQ+ Activism in Central and Eastern Europe: Resistance, Representation and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 239–264. |
Publications, Articles |
20th Century, East European, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, History, Latvian, Queer Studies |
| 'Meat and Taboo in Medieval Scandinavian Law and Literature', Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 14 (2018), 61–80 |
Publications, Articles |
Animal Studies, Anthropology, Law and Political Thought, Medieval, Old Norse |
| 'Mythological and Heroic Motifs in Manx Stone Sculpture', in Viking Myths and Rituals on the Isle of Man, eds. Leszek Gardeła and Carolyne Larrington (Rzeszow: Mitel, 2014), 22–29 |
Publications, Articles |
Anthropology, Archaeology, Folklore and Mythology, Medieval, Old Norse |
