Stephanie Bernhard

Stephanie Bernhard is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of English at Salisbury University. Her research focuses on environmental humanities, climate change narratives, and environmental justice. She earned her PhD from the University of Virginia in 2017 and a BA from Brown University in 2009. Bernhard was a fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute of the University of Toronto during 2019-2020.

Her scholarly work appears in peer-reviewed journals such as Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities and The Global South. She has also contributed essays to Orion, Slate, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and others. Her fiction, including Summer of Love, has been published in The Literary Review. Bernhard’s articles explore intersections of literature with environmental crises, including climate change and anthropocene studies.

Key research interests include the literature of climate change, Indigenous literatures, and interdisciplinary environmental studies. She has analyzed contemporary anthropocene theory and the representation of environmental justice in modernist and global literature. Bernhard’s teaching and writing reflect her commitment to bridging literary analysis with urgent ecological themes.

Her awards include the Jackman Humanities Institute Fellowship, supporting her research on climate narratives. Bernhard’s work also extends to public discourse on climate change, emphasizing the role of literature in addressing ecological challenges.