Elisabeth Weber

Elisabeth Weber is a Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the Germanic and Slavic Studies Department, Comparative Literature, and Religious Studies. Her research explores trauma, human rights, and critical theory, particularly addressing conceptual uncertainties around 'the human,' democracy, justice, and rights. She has held visiting professorships at Johns Hopkins and Rutgers Universities. Weber is an instructor in UCSB’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center's prison correspondence program and co-convenes the IHC Research Focus Group on 'Catastrophes: Thinking Shoah and Nakba Together.' Currently, she holds an IFK fellowship in Vienna for her project on plant humanities and North-American Indigenous thought translation.

• Affiliations: Germanic and Slavic Studies, Comparative Literature, Religious Studies
• Key Roles: Prison Pedagogy Program, Scholars at Risk Network

Her work bridges philosophy, literature, and ecology, emphasizing epistemic disconcertment between Western and Indigenous knowledge systems. Recent publications include Kill Boxes (2017) and articles on plant cosmologies and intercultural translation.

• Scientific Awards: None explicitly listed.

She has advised no named students in the provided texts but engages in collaborative research through interdisciplinary initiatives and fellowships.