Keywords: Environmental Humanities - Cultural studies - Postcolonial studies
Affiliation: Universität Vechta
The fields of Gabriele's expertise are ecocriticism, German-language nature writing, postcolonial studies, dystopian world literature, travel literature on the South Pacific, cultural theory and aesthetics. The focus of her recent work is narratives of the Anthropocene in science and literature. She is conducting the research project "Natural-cultural memory in the Anthropocene. Archives, Media and Literatures of Earth History" (2024-2026, funded by the German Research Foundation) that asks how anthropogenic changes of the natural environment are inscribed into cultural memory and addresses cultural dimensions of planetary crises such as climate change or the sixth mass extinction. She is also conducting a smaller project in citizen humanities on natural-cultural transformation in Lower Saxony by collecting individual climate stories by citizens.
She is editor-in-chief of the open-access journal "Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift" and she is co-editing three book series on postcolonial German studies (with Aisthesis), on ecocriticism (with Peter Lang) and environmental humanities(with Metzler/Springer)
https://www.uni-vechta.de/kulturwissenschaften/lehrende/duerbeck-gabriele