{"id":11,"date":"2021-11-04T02:38:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T02:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-01-11T20:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T20:42:12","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/allegrarosenberg.com\/polar\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-system-serif-font-family\">I watched <em>The Terror <\/em>in April 2020 and the rest was history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specific areas of interest: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, especially the Terra Nova, Nimrod &amp; Belgica expeditions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scrapbooks, ephemera, and polar publications created during expeditions (The <em>South Polar Times, <\/em>the <em>Aurora Australis)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Polar audiences, enthusiasts &amp; fangirls throughout history<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The use\/necessity of humor, theatre, and performance as tool for social cohesion in expeditions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Frederick Cook &amp; his legacy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Franklin Expedition <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sir Clements Markham, the material consequences of his polar obsession, &amp; his role as connective tissue between the Victorians and the Heroic Age <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Popular reception of polar narratives in in the press and fictional media, literary interpretations of polar exploration <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Biographical details of officers &amp; men, incl. family history and society connections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lead organizer of <a href=\"http:\/\/terror.camp\">Terror Camp<\/a> (2021-present)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Polar talks at Explorer&#8217;s Club, Vanderbilt University, New Caanan Library (2025) Shackleton Autumn School Athy, Royal Geographical Society (2024)  History of Science Society conference (2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Polar articles and essays in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2024\/02\/26\/1088144\/antarctica-starlink-elon-musk-satellite-internet\/\">MIT Technology Review<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/25\/opinion\/frederick-cook-explorer-scammer.html\">New York Times,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/antarctica-book-and-newspapers\">Atlas Obscura,<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cntraveler.com\/story\/on-location-endurance-national-geographic\"> Conde Nast Traveler,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/article\/pet-cat-antarctica-mcmurdo\">National Geographic,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/culture\/626989\/bennie-roth-first-jew-antarctica-richard-byrd-airplane-mechanic\/\">The Forward<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/longnow.org\/ideas\/the-truth-about-antarctica\/\">Long Now<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clements Markham paper in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/polar-record\/article\/romance-based-on-information-the-curious-case-of-clements-markhams-franklin-expedition-novel\/17A1C3BFC1BADC3A9C89CDEF52B13161\">Polar Record,<\/a> 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Volunteer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederickcooksociety.org\/\">the Frederick Cook Society<\/a> in Hurleyville, NY (2022-2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Received a NYU Digital Humanities Fellowship in 2022 to research <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalhumanities.nyu.edu\/news\/2022-12-08-fellow-post-donors-fox\/\">the Victorian polar network<\/a> at the British Library<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Early tidbits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Assisted with Illuminator&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.illuminator.blog\/p\/polar-worlds.html\"> guide to Greenwich&#8217;s Polar Worlds<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contributed to Finger-Post&#8217;s research on <a href=\"https:\/\/finger-post.blog\/2020\/09\/13\/the-mystery-of-pinhorn-the-missing-erebus-clerk\/\">the missing Erebus clerk<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Helped with research on Crozier&#8217;s birth date for <a href=\"https:\/\/hawlantern.blogspot.com\/p\/birth-date.html\">Haw Lantern<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched The Terror in April 2020 and the rest was history. 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