We congratulate LCE Deputy Director Stefka Eriksen on winning funding for EcoEmotions from the Humanities Faculty's strategic initiatives (2024-2028). EcoEmotions investigates how we emotionally cope with environmental change and brings together researchers from literary studies, Old Norse and Celtic, Japanese and Arabic literature, along with psychology.
The main aim of this initiative is to discuss how humanity affectively deals with environmental change, as represented in and through literature, from the past and today, both in the North and globally.
The research project addresses two main questions:
- How does literature represent and describe affective responses to environmental change?
- What effect does literature have on our emotions and thoughts, and how can it contribute to sustainability in times of environmental transformations?
To read more about the research project, please visit Eco-Emotions own website.