Between 2018 and 2021, I was employed as a post-doctoral researcher with the inter-disciplinary research project Disability before disability (Icel. Fötlun fyrir tíma fötlunar), funded by Rannis grant of excellence 173655-051 and situated at the University of Iceland’s Centre for disability studies. My work was focused on disability in medieval Icelandic saga writing.
Publications
(with Eva Þórdís Ebenezarsdóttir, Sólveig Ólafsdóttir, Arndís Bergsdóttir, Haraldur Þór Hammer Haraldsson, Alice Bower, Yoav Tirosh, Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir, and James G. Rice) “Multidisciplinary Approaches to Disability in Iceland (late 9th–early 20th century),” Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 24(1), 2022, pp.151–164. https://doi.org/10.16993/sjdr.868
(with Yoav Tirosh) “Health, Healing, and the Social Body in Medieval Iceland.” In Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936, edited by Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir and James G. Rice. New York and London: Routledge, 2021, pp. 113–27. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003180180-7
(with Yoav Tirosh and Ármann Jakobsson) “Disability in Medieval Iceland: Some Methodological Concerns.” In Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936, edited by Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir and James G. Rice. New York and London: Routledge, 2021, pp. 12–28. http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003180180-1
Disability in the medieval Nordic world, a special issue of the journal Mirator 20 (2) edited by Christopher Crocker, 2021. https://journal.fi/mirator/issue/view/7185
“Disability in the Medieval Nordic World: Foreword.” Disability in the medieval Nordic world, a special issue of the journal Mirator 20 (2) edited by Christopher Crocker, 2021, pp. 2–4. https://journal.fi/mirator/article/view/103258/60268
(with Ármann Jakobsson) “The Lion, the Dream, and the Poet: Mental Illnesses in Norway’s Medieval Royal Court,” Disability in the medieval Nordic world, a special issue of the journal Mirator 20 (2) edited by Christopher Crocker, 2021, pp. 91–105. https://journal.fi/mirator/article/view/91949/60263
“Narrating blindness and seeing ocularcentrism in Þorsteins saga hvíta,” Gripla 31, 2020, pp. 267–92. https://doi.org/10.33112/gripla.31.9
(with Ármann Jakobsson, Anna Katharina Heiniger, and Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir) “Disability before Disability: Mapping the Uncharted in the Medieval Sagas,” Scandinvian Studies 92(4), 2020, pp. 440–60. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.92.4.0440
“Disability and dreams in the medieval Icelandic sagas,” Saga-Book 43, 2019, pp. 37–58. https://vsnr.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Saga-Book.XLIII_.pdf
Conference papers and lectures
“Disability and the conditions of narrative in medieval saga writing,” Þjóðarspegillinn: Ráðstefna í félagsvísindum, University of Iceland (online), October 30, 2020.
[CANCELLED DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC] “Mental health and medieval saga writing,” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2019 (Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada), Western University, London, ON, June 1–4, 2020.
“Mental health and Norway’s medieval royal court,” University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities (Arts of Conversation lecture series), Winnipeg, Manitoba, November 28, 2019.
“Disability and dreams in the medieval Icelandic sagas,” Experiences of Dis/ability from the Late Middle Ages to the Mid-Twentieth Century, Tampere University, Finland, August 21–23, 2019.
“‘Narrative prosthesis,’ sensory impairment, and the medieval Icelandic sagas,” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2019 (Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada), University of British Columbia, June 3–6, 2019.
“Narrating disability before disability: Embodied impairment in the medieval Icelandic sagas,” University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities (Arts of Conversation lecture series), Winnipeg, Manitoba, February 14, 2019.
Christopher W. E. Crocker 