Lecturer
Marissa Grunes is a literary scholar and science writer who studies nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture, with a focus on environmental history and the Antarctic. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Yale University and a PhD in English Literature from Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in听Discover,听Science,听Atlas Obscura,听The Boston Review, and听狈补耻迟颈濒耻蝉听among other venues. She lived for two summer seasons at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, where she enjoyed biking across the sea ice and riding a snowmobile to the base of Mount Erebus.