Christine Kanz

Christine Kanz is a Professor of Literary Studies at University of Education Upper Austria and Visiting Professor of Modern German Literature at Ghent University. She held visiting appointments at UC institutions (2003-2010), Max Planck Institute (2010), and Klara Fassbinder Visiting Professorship (2015/16).

• PhD in Philology (1998) and Habilitation (2008)
• Co-editor of Springer's Ecocriticism series
• Active in research networks: EASLCE, Plant Studies Network

Her research spans 1800s literary culture, European avant-garde movements, and contemporary ecocritical analysis, with recent projects examining:

• Plant metaphors in modern literature
• Anthropocene narratives across genres
• Recognition theory in literary contexts
• Climate crisis representations in art
• Interdisciplinary terrain text studies
• Comparative literature-methods

Notable publications include Maternal Modernity (2009) and essays on Thomas Hettche's ecological fiction (2018), German nature writing (2021), and Tokarczuk's environmental themes (2022). She co-edits multiple ecocriticism volumes and leads the Women in Literary Studies network.