LuLing Osofsky is a PhD Candidate in the History of Art & Visual Culture program at UC Santa Cruz. Her research explores contemporary visual culture of the Arctic, particularly Svalbard archipelago, and its geopolitical implications for collective memory in this time of climate emergency. LuLing teaches courses in writing and the visual culture of memory, with a focus on environmental and historical trauma. She has written for the Paris Review Daily, High Country News, and Orion Magazine, and has presented and performed at the Getty Museum and SFMoMA.