Steven Hartman

Steven Hartman is Visiting Professor of English at Mälardalen University in Sweden and Associate Scientist at Stefansson Arctic Institute in Iceland. His work focuses on environmental memory in literature; integrating the humanities in global change research and policy; and building collaborations among artists, researchers, educators and civil society to help mobilize public action on climate change. In 2020 he is co-leading efforts to launch BRIDGES, a humanities-centered global coalition for...See more

Steven Hartman is Visiting Professor of English at Mälardalen University in Sweden and Associate Scientist at Stefansson Arctic Institute in Iceland. His work focuses on environmental memory in literature; integrating the humanities in global change research and policy; and building collaborations among artists, researchers, educators and civil society to help mobilize public action on climate change. In 2020 he is co-leading efforts to launch BRIDGES, a humanities-centered global coalition for sustainability science, in close cooperation with UNESCO and the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH). He also directs the Humanities for the Environment Circumpolar Observatory anchored at the Stefansson Arctic Institute in Iceland and for over a decade he led the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES). Together with Dr. Astrid Ogilvie, he co-leads the international research project Reflections of Change: The Natural World in Literary and Historical Sources from Iceland ca. AD 800 to 1800 (ICECHANGE) funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (2017-2020). An article from this project, "Medieval Iceland, Greenland and the New Human Condition: a case study in integrated environmental humanities," for which he was lead author, won the biennial St. Andrews Article Prize in European Environmental History in 2019. Hartman's publications have appeared in a wide range of scholarly, scientific and literary journals, including PMLA, Global and Planetary Change, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Ecozon@, the New York Review of Books Online, The Holocene, Agni Online, the Southern Review, Witness and the Georgia Review, as well as in anthologies from academic publishers such as Cambridge UP, Routledge, Wiley-Blackwell and Brill. See less