Keywords: Environmental Humanities - Blue Humanities - Environmental Justice
Affiliation: Leir Chair of Comparative Literature and Professor of Environmental Humanities at Clark University
Christina Gerhardt is the Leir Chair of Comparative Literature and founding Co-Director of the Environmental Humanities at Clark University; former Barron Visiting Professor of Environmental Humanities at the High Meadows Environment Institute at Princeton University (2021-2022); former Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center; and a permanent Senior Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, where she taught previously.
Professor Gerhardt has been awarded fellowships by the Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Newberry Library. She has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, the Free University Berlin and Columbia University.
She is also an environmental journalist with a focus on environmental justice. She has been published (under “Tina Gerhardt”) in The Guardian, Grist, The Nation, Orion and Sierra Magazine,among other venues.
She is Editor-in-Chief of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, the quarterly journal of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE), published by Oxford University Press.
She has published extensively in the field of environmental humanities. She is author of Sea Change: Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (University of California Press, 2023) and named one of the “Best Popular Science Books of 2023” by the New Scientist, called “a work of art” by the LA Times and a Silver Medal Award winner for both the Nautilus Book Award and the California Book Award.