Academia
Published Writing
"The Gilded Gothic Cages: Corruption, Judgment, and Moral Development in Ravenloft’s Domains of Dread"
Chapter for peer-review edited collection
Book title: Theology, Religion and Dungeons and Dragons: Explorations of the Sacred Through Fantasy Worlds
Edited by: Scott Donahue-Martens and Brandon Simonson
Publisher: Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
Published: December 2024
“To English and Back Again: Preserving the Complexities of Fantastic Creatures on the Journey Between Languages”
Article for peer-reviewed online journal
for Mapping the Impossible: Journal for Fantasy Research vol. 1 issue 1, 2022
Based on my conference paper the previous year, co-authored with Grace A.T. Worm
Appearances
“When Nature Speaks: Fictional AI as Folkloric Creatures of the Technological Age”
Conference paper
for Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations (GIFCon) 2024, ‘Conjuring Creatures and Worlds’.
Examining the diverse array of AI characters in mid-20th century SF and how this relates to the complex borders between mythology, fantasy and science fiction.
“By Any Other Name: SF and the Evolving Faces of Mythology”
Conference paper, part of panel "Myths of Progress"
for TARTALO, 'The VIII International Conference on Myth in the Arts', tartalogasteiz.com
Continuing the work related to the previous presentation, delving deeper into the theory of SF and how it is impacted by the fictional figure of AI and post-Singularity fiction.
“Episode 234: How Does the Federation Economy Work?”
Podcast appearance, Women at Warp
"In Star Trek’s post-scarcity vision of the future, how does their economy work? How do they trade? We’re joined by experts Martine G. Ræstad and Manu Saadia (author of Trekonomics) to discuss the technological and social forces shaping Star Trek’s economic utopia."
“To English and Back Again: Preserving the Complexities of Fantastic Creatures on the Journey Between Languages”
Conference paper
for Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations (GIFCon) 2020/2021, ‘Beyond the Anglocentric Fantastic’.
On the topic of the benefits and downsides of translating the names of supernatural creatures, using jotnar from Norse Mythology as a case study.
Miscellaneous
“Through Shards of the Looking Glass: New Horizons and the Subjective Nature of the Fantastic”
Master’s Dissertation
Completed September 2020, for MLitt in Fantasy Literature
On the potential problems surrounding definitions of ‘fantasy’ and the ‘fantastic’, particularly when treated as objective rather than subjective observations, in light of the risks of marginalising and excluding narratives that counter the dominant doctrine.
Higher Education
2016-2018
BA English Literature and Linguistics
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
2018-2019
One Year Study: Musicology
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
2019-2020
MLitt English Literature: Fantasy (with Distinction)
University of Glasgow