Karen Oslund

Professor

Towson University

Affiliations

College of Liberal Arts

Department of History

Karen Oslund is currently serving as a College Of Liberal Arts Professor at Towson University.

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Karen Oslund

Towson University

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anthropology history cultural history literature environmental history colonialism global history settler colonialism comparative literature world literature intellectual history literary criticism historiography cultural anthropology literary history environmental planning narrative historical geography geopolitics interdisciplinary history travel research social semiotics language policy literary studies historical scholarship environmental governance environmental politics cultural geography transatlantic relations degrowth historical analysis transnational history global english lingua franca language culture arni magnusson global biography colonial states disko bay danish-norwegian officials dutch whalers north atlantic colonial condition eighteenth-century sailors emotional labor david hoyt global context postcolonial studies

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The Emotional Labor of Travel: Two Eighteenth-Century Sailors and Their Journeys to Find a Home. Arctic Humanities (2023)

social historycultural historyinterdisciplinary historyhistoryliteratureemotional laborhistorical analysistransnational historyeighteenth-century sailorstravel research

A Life in Exile: Reading the Travels of Arni Magnusson as Global Biography. Saga: timarit Sogufelags (2022)

global historycultural historyintellectual historyworld literatureliteratureliterary historyarni magnussoncomparative literatureliterary studieshistorical scholarshipglobal biographyhistoriographyliterary criticism

Greenland in the Center: What Happened When Danish-Norwegian Officials Met the English and Dutch Whalers in Disko Bay, 1780-1820. Acta Borealia: A Journal of Circumpolar Cultures (2016)

anthropologyhistorydutch whalersdisko baydanish-norwegian officials

Scarcity in the Arctic: A Colonial Condition?,". The Imagination of Limits: Exploring Scarcity and Abundance (2015)

colonialismdegrowthsettler colonialismenvironmental historygeopoliticseconomicscolonial condition

Cultivating the Colonies: Colonial States and Their Environmental Legacies. Ohio University Press (2011)

anthropologycolonial statescolonialismsettler colonialismenvironmental governanceenvironmental planningenvironmental politicsenvironmental history

Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic. University of Washington Press (2011)

anthropologycultural historynarrativenorth atlanticculturehistorical geographycultural geographycultural anthropologyhumanitiestransatlantic relations

The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context, 1740-1940 (Co-Edited With David Hoyt). Rowman & Littlefield (2006)

social semioticslanguage cultureglobal historyhistorylanguage policyglobal studiesdiscourse analysisdavid hoytlanguageglobal englishlingua francaglobal contextsociolinguistics

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