Professor Abbie Garrington and Dr Kerri Andrew in conversation: gender, mountaineering, ways of noticing.

Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre for Place Writing & Women Talk Place present 'Thinking Like A Mountain', writing and evoking mountain landscapes.

This international seminar series will feature experts on evoking mountain environments in-conversation with Dr Helen Mort (winner of the 2022 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature).

Abbie Garrington is an Associate Professor at Durham University with particular expertise in literature's rendering of tactile experience and wider cultures of touch in the early twentieth century, and in modernist writing's engagement with mountain landscapes and the figure of the mountaineer up to and including the Second World War. Abbie investigates language's capacities and limitations when addressing the adventures of the human body.

Kerri Andrews is the author of Wanderers (A History of Women Walking).Kerri took her undergraduate degree at Loughborough University before moving to the University of Leeds to complete first a Masters and then a PhD in women’s literature. At Leeds she discovered the delights of the Yorkshire Dales, before falling in love first with the Lake District and then the Scottish mountains. She has so far climbed over 120 of Scotland’s Munros. She lives in Scotland.

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