Elizabeth Leane

Elizabeth Leane is Professor of Antarctic Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania. She has a career-long drive to understand how non-specialists can connect with remote or seemingly inaccessible places and ideas. She has visited Antarctica as a writer-in-resident, an educator and a researcher, with the Australian, New Zealand and Chilean national programs, and with tour operators. She is Arts and Literature Editor of The Polar Journal. Her books include Antarctica in Fiction (Cambridge UP, 2012), South Pole: Nature and Culture (Reaktion Books, 2016) and Space, Place, and Bestsellers (Cambridge UP, 2024).