Collins Living-Learning Center

This course explores myths, legends, ghost stories, weird fiction, and conspiracy theories about the Arctic. The Arctic is a land surrounded by stories – it can be the home of supernatural creatures, the final resting place of lost explorers, or even the entrance to the hollow earth. What is it about this part of the world that it has inspired these fantastical, mysterious, and otherworldly tales? And how do we perpetuate these narratives in modern pop culture? In this course, we will use techniques from history, folkloristics, and anthropology to trace the intertwined history of these narratives. We will study their development and proliferation in both the North American and Siberian contexts, with emphasis on how the histories and cultures of the Indigenous people in these regions are appropriated and silenced in them.

Instructor: Benjamin Storsved

Collins Seminars: Selected by Board of Educational Programming (BOEP)

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