Christopher Abram

Biography

Chris Abram is interested in Old English and Old Norse literature, especially poetry. His most recent book, Evergreen Ash: Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature, reads Norse mythology as an anticipatory echo of the ecological crises of modernity, and challenges misconceptions about the relative “greenness” of premodern and non-Christian European cultures. He teaches an environmentally-focused undergraduate class on postapocalyptic literatures, and a graduate seminar on attitudes towards Nature across a range of medieval texts