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Jenna Coughlin is an Assistant Professor of Norwegian and Norwegian Section Head at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. She specializes in Norwegian literature, environmental humanities, poetry, and life writing. Her academic roles include teaching Norwegian language and courses on Arctic history, Nordic media, and climate activism.
Dr. Coughlin holds a Ph.D. in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures from UC Berkeley, with a dissertation on language-place relationships in Norwegian poetry. She earned a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and completed a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Oslo studying Old Norse and modern Norwegian. She directs a research project analyzing global responses to Greta Thunberg and youth climate activism.
Her research interests intersect environmental humanities, Nordic cultural studies, and the intersections of language, place, and identity. She explores how literature and poetry reflect environmental challenges and cultural shifts, with a focus on Nordic perspectives. Her work critiques media representations of climate activism and examines historical narratives of exploration and identity.
Key projects include studies on peripheral nations' environmental leadership, climate refugee discourses, and Arctic cultural representations. Her recent publications analyze youth climate movements beyond Greta Thunberg, reframe Nordic environmental policy narratives, and deconstruct literary treatments of ecological displacement.
