Keywords: Plant Studies - Animal Studies - Environmental Humanities
Affiliation: Professor of German Studies, North Carolina State University
Helga G. Braunbeck holds degrees in German and English Literature from the University of Tübingen, University of Oregon, Eugene, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is Professor of German Studies at North Carolina State University, and has also served as Director of International Studies, and as Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies.
She has published two books: Autorschaft und Subjektgenese: Christa Wolfs Kein Ort Nirgends (1992), and Figurationen von Kunst, Musik, Film und Tanz: Intermedialität bei Libuše Moníková (2018). Her current research is situated in the environmental humanities, with a special focus on literary and cultural plant and animal studies. Published and forthcoming articles on literary representations of moss, gardening, lignite mining, smart cities, lichen, third nature poetics, and the leaf can be found in the journals Literatur für Leser, Humanities, and Gegenwartsliteratur, and in various essay collections. In addition, together with Solvejg Nitzke, she wrote the editorial for a 2022 Green Letters special issue on “Arboreal Imaginaries." An article on hunting and forest ecology can be found in Ecozon@ 15.2 (2024), and a recent book chapter on Horst Stern's novella The Last Hunt appeared in Hunting Troubles: Gender and Its Intersections in the Cultural History of the Hunt, edited by Laura Beck and Maurice Saß (2025).