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Research Objectives:
Elena Glasberg has been teaching and publishing on American antarctic fiction
and exploration narrative for ten years beginning with her dissertation, Antarcticas
of the Imagination. At Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary
Research she led interdisciplinary seminars on such topics as science and ethics
and directed the Program in Sexuality Studies. Ms. Glasberg will complete her
book, Final Arrivals: A US Antarctic Imaginary, on American antarctic fiction
from 1818 to the present.
Ms. Glasberg will be at McMurdo Station and throughout Antarctica observing the natural and built environment as well as human activities including science and support work.
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