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Bethany Wiggin is a Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts & Sciences, where she founded the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. She holds appointments in the Department of French, Italian, and Germanic Studies, as well as Graduate Groups in Comparative Literature and English.
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Her research bridges early modern German/Atlantic cultural history with environmental humanities, focusing on:
- Coloniality and Anticolonialism in the Anthropocene
- Climate Literacy & Storytelling
- Multilingualism and Translation
- Ecotopianism and Utopianism
- Atlantic World Colonialism
- European Pre-Modern Literature in Global Contexts
Her recent work explores interdisciplinary methods to connect human and natural histories, exemplified by projects like The Ecotopian Toolkit for the Anthropocene and My Climate Story.
She has secured grants to build the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities into a community-engaged hub for public environmental humanities research.
