Carl Edlund Anderson holds an A.B. in Folklore & Mythology from Harvard College and a Ph.D. from the Faculty of English (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic) at the University of Cambridge, with studies focused on Medieval and Pre-Medieval Scandinavia, as well as a CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) from the British Council in Bogotá, Colombia. His academic publications have treated Germanic philology, Colombian minority languages and cultures, and content and language integrated learning (CLIL).
Outside of academia, Carl worked for many years as a technical writer/editor in the high technology industry and founded/ran the Cambridge Writers of Imaginative Literature (CWIL) creative writing group in Cambridge, England from 2001 to 2007.
