Christina Gerhardt’s research and teaching focus on the environmental humanities. Recently, she was the Barron Visiting Professor of Environmental Humanities at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University and a Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. She is the author of Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean, which was named by New Scientist as one of the “best popular science books of 2023.” She is Editor-in-Chief of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and has held visiting positions at Harvard University, the Free University in Berlin, Columbia University, and the University of California at Berkeley, where she taught previously and is a permanent Senior Fellow.