BIO

Elena Glasberg has been thinking about Antarctica sine the day she encountered Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, a strange vision from 1828 of a polar abyss in shadowy black and white. Beginning with this inconclusive end to the mapped earth, Glasberg studies the way nation, science, literature continue to produce the territory with the least sure future on earth.

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