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	Project	Start Date	End Date
	Exploring the Arctic Archive: Recovering Documentary Visual and Literary Sources of the Circumpolar North in the Long Nineteenth Century	01-MAR-22	28-FEB-26

Project

Start Date

End Date

Exploring the Arctic Archive: Recovering Documentary Visual and Literary Sources of the Circumpolar North in the Long Nineteenth Century

01-MAR-22

28-FEB-26

	Year	Publication
	(2023)	'Social Encounters: Portraits of the Yup'ik Women of Taciq, Alaska, 1850-1851' O'Dochartaigh, Eavan (2023) 'Social Encounters: Portraits of the Yup'ik Women of Taciq, Alaska, 1850-1851'. Interventions, 25 (8):1005-1027 [DOI] [Details]
	(2019)	'Exceedingly Good Friends: The Representation of Indigenous People during the Franklin Search Expeditions to the Arctic, 1847-59' O'Dochartaigh, Eavan (2019) 'Exceedingly Good Friends: The Representation of Indigenous People during the Franklin Search Expeditions to the Arctic, 1847-59'. Victorian Studies, 61 (2):255-267 [DOI] [Details]

Year

Publication

(2023)

'Social Encounters: Portraits of the Yup'ik Women of Taciq, Alaska, 1850-1851'
O'Dochartaigh, Eavan (2023) 'Social Encounters: Portraits of the Yup'ik Women of Taciq, Alaska, 1850-1851'. Interventions, 25 (8):1005-1027 [DOI] [Details]

(2019)

'Exceedingly Good Friends: The Representation of Indigenous People during the Franklin Search Expeditions to the Arctic, 1847-59'
O'Dochartaigh, Eavan (2019) 'Exceedingly Good Friends: The Representation of Indigenous People during the Franklin Search Expeditions to the Arctic, 1847-59'. Victorian Studies, 61 (2):255-267 [DOI] [Details]

	Year	Publication
	(2022)	Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages: Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions. O'Dochartaigh, Eavan (2022) Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages: Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [DOI] [Details]

Year

Publication

(2022)

Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages: Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions.
O'Dochartaigh, Eavan (2022) Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages: Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [DOI] [Details]

	Term/Year	Module Title	Module Code	Subject / Desc
	Semester 1 2023/24	Travel Writing in the Arctic	EN2173

Term/Year

Module Title

Module Code

Subject / Desc

Semester 1 2023/24

Travel Writing in the Arctic

EN2173

	Name	Organisation / Institute	Country	Description of Collaboration
	Ingeborg Høvik	UiT The Arctic University of Norway	NORWAY	Arctic Voices in Art and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century ¿ a four-year project (2020-2024) funded by the Research Council of Norway's Young Research Talent Programme. We are a group of international scholars and artists who contribute to the ongoing efforts of decolonizing dominant Arctic History, this project gathers stories that point to those who were on the receiving end of imperialism in the extended nineteenth century. https://www.arcticvoices.space/

Name

Organisation / Institute

Country

Description of Collaboration

Ingeborg Høvik

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

NORWAY

Arctic Voices in Art and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century ¿ a four-year project (2020-2024) funded by the Research Council of Norway's Young Research Talent Programme. We are a group of international scholars and artists who contribute to the ongoing efforts of decolonizing dominant Arctic History, this project gathers stories that point to those who were on the receiving end of imperialism in the extended nineteenth century. https://www.arcticvoices.space/