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Professor of English

University affiliation

• Department of English
• University of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Fairbanks (Fairbanks)

Contact information

• Email: jschell5@alaska.edu
• Phone: (907) 474-1982

Media contact

University Relations

• Email: uaf-news@alaska.edu

Areas of expertise

• Humanities
• Social and behavioral science

Research interests/biography

Research specialties include North American literature, Arctic writing, whaling history, print and visual culture, animal studies and environmental humanities. Current research explores manifestations of ecogothic discourse in North American extinction writing — including that which addresses Arctic animals such as mammoths and whales — published between 1820 and the present.