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Christine Gerhardt is a Full Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Bamberg, Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Department of English and American Studies. She has held this position since October 2010 after serving as Director of the German-American Institute / Carl Schurz House in Freiburg (2008-2010) and as Acting Professor for North American Literature at the University of Freiburg (2008). She declined a W3 professorship at the University of Augsburg in 2017.
Her research focuses on 19th and 20th/21st-Century American Literature with specializations in Ecocriticism, Literature of Migration and Mobility, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson studies, African American Literature, and Literature of the American South. Her recent publications demonstrate a strong engagement with environmental imagination, mobility studies, and the intersection of nature writing with cultural history. She has edited significant works including The American Novel of the Nineteenth Century (2017) and co-edited the special issue Environmental Imagination on the Move (2017).
Professor Gerhardt has received numerous honors including the 2015 CHOICE Award for A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World and the Harris Distinguished Professorship at Dartmouth College (2015). She holds memberships in several professional associations including the Emily Dickinson International Society, Transnational Walt Whitman Association, and American Studies Association.
Her teaching portfolio includes courses on American Literature I & II, Baldwin, The American Civil War, Presidential Elections, Walt Whitman, Toni Morrison, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Emily Dickinson, and various seminars on nature, environment, and contemporary American literature. She has organized numerous conferences including the International Conference on 'The Environment and Human Migration' (2016) and the Symposium on 'Nature – Mobility – Literature' (2014).
