Heidi Hansson

Professor, Department of Language Studies, Umeå University

Heidi Hansson received her PhD from Umeå University, Sweden and is Professor of English Literature at the same university, currently serving as Deputy Vice Chancellor.

She has published widely on images of the North and the Arctic in travel writing, fiction and popular culture, and has edited, together with Cathrine Norberg, the collection Cold Matters: Cultural Perceptions of Snow, Ice and Cold (2009) and with Anka Ryall, the recent collection Arctic Modernities: The Environmental, the Exotic and the Everyday (2017). Her most recent project is the collection The Arctic in Literature for Children and Young Adults, co-edited with Maria Lindgren Leavenworth and Anka Ryall (2020).