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Christina Gerhardt is a Professor and Leir Chair of Comparative Literature at Clark University. Her research bridges Environmental Humanities and film studies, with a focus on cultural memory and climate change. She previously held the Barron Visiting Professorship in Environmental Humanities at Princeton University and was a Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich). Gerhardt has taught at UC Berkeley and held visiting roles at Harvard, Columbia, and Free University Berlin.
Her major publications include Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (2023), acclaimed as a 'work of art' by the LA Times, and Screening the Red Army Faction (2018). She edits ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, the flagship journal of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE).
Awarded fellowships by Fulbright, DAAD, and NEH, Gerhardt’s work intersects environmental crises, literary analysis, and cinematic representations of historical movements. Her interdisciplinary approach spans climate justice, postcolonial ecocriticism, and global cinema.
