Grace Ellen King

My work centers digital humanities and public humanities methods. I have experience writing about topics in environmental studies and Indigenous studies for a variety of venues and audiences. I also have training in digital project development and I am excited about building multimodal open-access platforms using Wordpress (Divi), Scalar, or ArcGIS StoryMaps.

Digital Projects

In 2025 I launched an original digital project, Harriman Recollected: New Views of an 1899 Expedition to Alaska, that presents archival research about nineteenth-century Arctic science for a trans-disciplinary audience.

This project is the result of my two-year Graduate Assistantship with the Special Collections Library at Penn State University from 2022-2024.

Public Writing

I have been a staff writer and contributor for university newspapers and public-facing academic venues. Please find a selection of my public writing collected here.

“Where Truth Begins: Starting Reconciliation Efforts From a Place of Honesty at the University of Toronto,” The Strand, 2017.
“Why Do We Strike and What Happens Next?,” The Varsity, 2019.
“Forum on Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World,” The G19 Collective (C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists), 2025.
“Who the North? Reconsidering the Influence of ‘Northern’ Branding in Toronto and Canada,” The Strand, 2017.
“Op-ed: It’s Time for Federated Colleges to Divest from Fossil Fuels,” The Varsity, 2021.