The project’s postdoctoral researcher from September 2019 to August 2021, Timothy Bourns, is continuing and expanding his work on emotions and the environment this year on the west coast of Canada. Tim has joined the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia as an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow. His project is titled ‘The Nature of Emotion in Medieval Romance’, his research mentor is Professor Robert Rouse, and he is engaging with the Oecologies ‘Inhabiting Premodern Worlds’ research cluster and the Emotion & Self Psychology Lab. He will also remain connected with the Emotion and the Medieval Self project as a gestafræðimaður (visiting research fellow) at the University of Iceland’s Institute of Literature and Visual Arts.
