JOHAN SCHIMANSKI is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo and also a visiting research Professor of Cultural Encounters at the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests are in border poetics and related topics such as postcolonialism, national identity, migration literature, science fiction and Arctic discourses. He was project leader for a Research Council of Norway project on Border Aesthetics at the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, and primary investigator for the same university in the EU Frame Programme 7 research project Euborderscapes. At present he is co-coordinator of the interdisciplinary research project TRAUM – Transforming Author Museums. Together with Ulrike Spring, he has published a major monograph on the cultural, political, medial and literary reception of the Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition, Passagiere des Eises: Polarhelden und arktische Diskurse 1874 (Böhlau 2015). He has also co-edited the collaborative volume Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections (with Stephen F. Wolfe, Berghahn 2017).
NICOLA WATSON is Professor of English Literature at the Open University, founding co-ordinator of European Romanticisms in Association, and chief curator of the online museum RÊVE (Romantic Europe: The Virtual Exhibition) (http://www.euromanticism.org/virtual-exhibition/). She has previously taught at universities including Oxford, Harvard and Northwestern, and has held fellowships and visiting appointments in California, Beijing and elsewere. Although her home period is the Romantic age — the subject of her first book *Revolution and the Form of the British Novel, 1790-1825* and many succeeding publications on Austen, Wordsworth and Scott, including an edition of Scott’s *The Antiquary* for Oxford University Press — she has become, since the publication of her *The Literary Tourist* in 2006, an authority on literary tourism, visiting and studying sites worldwide, and serving as a consultant to, among others, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and the Cowper-Newton Museum. Her forthcoming study *The Author’s Effects: A Cultural Poetics of the Writer’s House Museum* considers the writer’s house museum as a genre, asking what ideological work it performs in localising the literary.
ULRIKE SPRING is Associate Professor of Modern European History at University of Oslo and also Professor II at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. She is project leader (together with Johan Schimanski) of the international research project TRAUM – Transforming Author Museums (2016-2019). From 2003-2007 she was a curator at Wien Museum, Vienna, creating exhibitions on W. A. Mozart and H. C. Andersen among others. Her research interests are in the fields of museum history, museology, and the culture of travel, tourism and expeditions in the long 19th century. Recent books include a co-edited collection of articles in the history of science Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation (with Marianne Klemun, Palgrave 2016) and a monograph on the reception of the Austro-Hungarian polar expedition Passagiere des Eises: Polarhelden und arktische Diskurse 1874 (with Johan Schimanski, Böhlau 2015). Together with Johan Schimanski, she is working on a book on transnationality in literary museums.
Glocal Places of Literature 