Adriana Craciun
Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University
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Adriana Craciun is Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities. She joined Boston University in 2017, having previously taught at the University of California-Riverside, the University of London, and the University of Nottingham.
Her research focuses on the history of exploration, the history of the Arctic, the role of exploration history in contemporary Arctic policy debates, the history of collecting and of material texts. Her most recent books are Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences, co-edited with Simon Schaffer (2016). Her current research projects include a cultural history of botanical collecting and concepts of plant temporality, from the Enlightenment to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
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The Strange and Twisted Life of “Frankenstein”
February 12, 2018
The New Yorker Adriana Craciun Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley began writing “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus” when she was eighteen years old, two years after she’d become pregnant with her first child, a baby she did not name… View full article
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Of shipwrecks and sovereignty
October 3, 2017
Ottawa Citizen By Adriana Craciun “Something dramatic is emerging from the Arctic ice and it is not just John Franklin’s recently discovered ships Erebus and Terror…” View full article
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Lost for 168 years, doomed Northwest Passage ship disovered
October 3, 2017
Christian Science Monitor Adriana Craciun In 1845, Sir John Franklin launched an expedition from England to chart the last unexplored waters of the elusive and dangerous Northwest Passage… Expert quote: “The Franklin exposition to the Northwest Passage has had a seminal role in the way we think about the North American Arctic.” View full op-ed
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The historical tug of war over how the Franklin story is told
September 18, 2017
The Star Adriana Craciun Full fathom five John Franklin’s ship lies and of its bones are stories made… Expert quote: “There is a set of facts. Those men all died…but there’s never just one Franklin disaster.” View full article
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The historical tug of war over how the Franklin story is told
September 15, 2017
Toronto Star Adriana Craciun Full fathom five John Franklin’s ship lies and of its bones are stories made… Expert quote: “There is a set of facts. Those men all died.” View full article
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