Jackson Crawford
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Jackson Crawford | |
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| Born | August 28, 1985 |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Occupation | Instructor of Scandinavian Studies at University of Colorado Boulder (August 2017) |
Jackson W. Crawford (born August 28, 1985) is an American scholar and poet who specializes in Old Norse.[1] As of August 2017, he teaches at University of Colorado, Boulder (previously at University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Los Angeles).[2]
Early life
Born in Houston, Texas, he moved to the mountains around Blackhawk and Central City, Colorado around 1995. He has a brother, Travis Crawford (born July 6, 1992), who is in college, works as a part-time tour guide at the Grand Canyon, and is a photographer.
Biography
Crawford’s research focuses on the history of the Scandinavian languages, specializing in Old Norse, Modern Icelandic, and Nynorsk. The focus of his Ph.D. dissertation as well as several published and forthcoming articles were on colours in the languages. He has argued, among other things, that Old Norse blár meant blue (not black), and that the language classified warm colors with an intriguing system that distinguished ideal reds with a distinct term, rauðr, but lumped non-ideal reds and other warm colors into a vague category weakly focused on yellow, bleikr.
Crawford is the Instructor of Nordic Studies, and Coordinator of the Nordic Program. Crawford teaches courses in the Old Norse language, Norse mythology, and the history of the Scandinavian languages. He received B.A. in Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics from Texas Tech University; an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Georgia; and a Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
He wrote and edited the quarterly publication, interpretive displays, and social media content for the Riverton Museum in Riverton, Wyoming until his departure in the summer of 2015.
He was a language consultant on the film Frozen.
Works
Dr. Crawford has published several books, including The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes, intended for the use of undergraduate students and general readers, published in 2015 by Hackett Publishing Company. This was followed in 2017 by The Saga of the Volsungs: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok, also published by Hackett Publishing Company.[2] He has also published creative writing in both English and Norwegian.
References
- ^ [1] His own words used.
- ^ a b "Jackson Crawford". Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Colorado Boulder. University of Colorado Boulder. Retrieved 2017-08-04.