Christina Gerhardt
Professor, Language, Literature & Culture
Henry J. Leir Endowed Chair in Foreign Languages and Cultures, Language, Literature & Culture
-
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.
Affiliated Department(s)
- Language, Literature & Culture
-
Scholarly and Creative Works
Scroll to top.-
Atlantis: An Atlas of Cities and Sea Level Rise
●
2027
University of California Press
-
Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
●
2023
●
ISBN #9780520304826
University of California Press
-
Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968
●
2019
●
ISBN #9781571139955
Camden House
-
Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory
●
2018
●
ISBN #9781501336690
Bloomsbury
-
●
2018
●
ISBN #9780814345429
Wayne State University Press
-
-
Awards & Grants
-
Short-Term Fellowship
Newberry Library, Ayer Collection: Maps, Travel, Exploration
Jun. 1, 2022 - Jun. 30, 2025
-
Senior Fellow
Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilian University
Aug. 1, 2022 - Dec. 30, 2022
-
Senior Fellow (Semi-Finalist)
Freiburg Insitute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Freiburg University
Sep. 1, 2021 - May. 31, 2022
-
Senior Fellow (alternate)
Woodrow Wilson Center
Sep. 1, 2021 - May. 31, 2022
-
Senior Fellow
Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilian University
Jan. 3, 2022 - May. 31, 2022
-
Barron Visiting Professor of Environmental Humanities
Princeton University
Jan. 10, 2022 - May. 31, 2022
-
Barron Visiting Professor of Environmental Humanities
Princeton University
Sep. 1, 2021 - Dec. 31, 2021
-
Senior Fellow (Semi-Finalist)
Woodrow Wilson Center
Sep. 1, 2020 - May. 31, 2021
-
Senior Fellow (Semi-Finalist)
Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilian University
Sep. 1, 2020 - May. 31, 2021
-
Barron Visiting Professor of Environmental Humanities
Princeton University
Jan. 1, 2021 - May. 31, 2021
-
Senior Fellow
Mesa Refuge
Dec. 1, 2020 - Dec. 18, 2020
-