Affiliation: University of Vienna
Keywords: Historical and Aesthetic Concepts of Climate - The Aesthetics of the Anthropocene - Conceptualizations of Nature
Eva Horn is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Vienna. Her areas of research include literary and cultural history from the 18th to the 21st century, most recently the imagination of catastrophe, the Anthropocene and the historical transformations of the concept and perception of climate. Her most recent work focuses on the understanding and representation of nature in the face of the current ecological crisis. Together with the geologist Michael Wagreich, she is the founder and director of the Vienna Anthropocene Network. She has been a member of the Anthropocene Working Group since 2024 and of the Academia Europaea since 2025. Eva Horn is the author of The Secret War. Treason, Espionage, and Modern Fiction (Northwestern University Press, 2013), The Future as Catastrophe (Columbia University Press, 2018), and, with Hannes Bergthaller: The Anthropocene - Key Issues for the Humanities (Routledge, 2020). She has recently published Climate. A History of Perception (Fischer, 2024).