John David Crosby is a PhD Candidate in Nordic Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). A member of the Research Council of Norway-funded project Imagination 1814-1905: Mapping the Imagined Geographies of Norway, his project looks at the philosophy and concept of the motif ‘home,’ used extensively in New Norwegian poetry and fiction between 1840 and 1925. He is most interested in the aesthetic and philosophical discourses that appear in Nynorsk literature during this nation-building period.
After completing degrees in French and Norwegian literature, he has worked as well as a translator from these languages, most recently translating a book by Frode Helland, former director of the Centre for Ibsen Studies at the University of Oslo.
In the fall semester of 2025, he will be a visiting scholar with the research group Nordic Blue Humanities at the Sorbonne in Paris.