Autor: Heidi Hansson

Anka Ryall is Professor Emerita of Gender Research in the Humanities at UiT–The Arctic University of Norway, where she has been co-leader and leader of two international interdisciplinary research projects, „Arctic Discourses” and „Arctic Modernities”. She is the author and editor of several books on travel writing and gender. Her most recent book is a feminist study of Virginia Woolf”s writings (2011). She is working on a book about women in Norwegian polar history.