Ingrid Brubaker
Postgraduate researcher
Ingrid Brubaker is a Norwegian-American PhD student whose work is mainly tethered in literature and ecophilosophy. Her PhD project investigates whether the reading of fiction can change a person’s perception of the natural world and the climate crisis, and how reading can be interpreted as a form of activism. She is using her literary analyses of four novels by Ali Smith to create hypotheses, which will be tested in various reading groups. Having worked as a librarian for several years, she is passionate about their importance in the community, and she is happy to have High Life Highland as her external partner for this project.
Ingrid has been based in Inverness since December 2022. She holds an MLitt in Highlands and Islands Literature from UHI Orkney, for which her dissertation project was an analysis of Nan Shepherd’s fiction in the context of deep ecology. She also holds an MA International Journalism from City University of London, in which she wrote about the politics of food, and a BA in English Language from the University of Oslo.
Research interests:
- Scottish literature and nature writing
- Ecocriticism
- Ecophilosophy and deep ecology
- Phenomenology
- Environmentalism
- Reading groups, libraries, and their role in communities