Ecocriticism Research Collective

Select Publications

• Anglophone Literature and Culture in the Anthropocene, ed. wth Gina Comos. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars 2019.

• "Sehnsuchtsort Natur: Von Ralph Waldo Emerson zu Peter Wohlleben. Schreiben über Natur in den USA und in Deutschland" (mit Peter Braun). Weiland, Marc/Werner Nell (eds.) Gutes Leben auf dem Land? Imaginationen und Projektionen. (Reihe: Rurale Topographien, Bd.12). Bielefeld: Transcript 2021: 167-197.

• "Wildnis Stadt: Zeitgenössisches Urban Birding und seine historischen Wurzeln in den USA." In: Kerschbaumer, Sandra/Gisela Mettele (eds.) Romantische Urbanität. Wien/Köln: Böhlau 2020: 187-209.
• "Landmarken: Das Konzept des Bioregionalismus bei Gary Snyder und Helmut Salzinger"(with Peter Braun). Zeitschrift für Germanistik XXX: 2 (2020): 363-380. 
• "The Nature(s) of Canadian Ecocriticism and Ecopoetry." In Comos/Rosenthal (eds.) Anglophone Literature in the Anthropocene. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2019: 96-114.
• "Introduction" (with Gina Comos) to Anglophone Literature in the Anthropocene. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2019: i-xv.
• "Modell des einfachen Lebens: Henry David Thoreaus Walden." In Kerschbaumer, Sandra/ Stefan Matuschek (eds.) Romantik erkennen – Modelle finden. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh 2019: 169-186.
• "Sean Penn's Into the Wild." Peters, Susanne et al. (eds.) Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag 2013: 369-386.

PhD Candidate in American Literature and Member of the DfG Research Training Group "Modell Romantik" at FSU Jena

•  Dissertation Project: Romantic Authroships and White Male Genius in the Wale of Moby-Dick
•  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Caroline Rosenthal

Talks

• "That's Fucking Dark: Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood as Ecogothic." Undead Tropes: New Directions in Gothic Studies, org. Evangelia Kindinger and Greta Kaisen, Humboldt University Berlin, 12 January 2024.
• "Is It Alright if I Don't Sing Tonight? Romance, Romanticism, and Climate Grief in Contemporary Popular Music." Part of the international guest lecture series Contemporary Contexts and Debates: 21st Century Literatures and Cultures in English, National University "Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic" (Ukraine), 4 October 2023. Virtual.
• "Climate Grief and Romantic Nescience in Contemporary Popular Music." New Romanticism – BARS/NASSR 2022, Edge Hill University (United Kingdom), 3 August 2022.

Publications

• Book review: "Anahid Nersessian. The Calamity Form." gestern Romantik heute. Forum für Wissenschaft und Kultur, 2022, https://www.gestern-romantik-heute.uni-jena.de/wissenschaft/publikationen/default-b8e49d9c31External link.  

Former PhD Candidate and Research Associate in American Studies, FSU Jena 

•  Dissertation Project: "To Accept Responsibility and Forgo the Control?”: Women and Nature in US-American Literature of the Anthropocene
•  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Caroline Rosenthal 

Publications

• Anglophone Literature and Culture in the Anthropocene. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2019. (edited with Caroline Rosenthal) 
• "Introduction." In: Anglophone Literature in the Anthropocene (ed.). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars 2019, i-xv. (with Caroline Rosenthal) 
• "American Ecocriticism and the Literature of the Anthropocene." In: Gina Comos Comos and Caroline Rosenthal, eds. Anglophone Literature in the Anthropocene. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars 2019, 48-66.

Conference Talks

• "Applying Ecofeminist Principles to Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation." Ecocritical Life Writing in the Dystopic Present (international workshop). 06.12.2019, Augsburg, DE.
• "The Anthropocene in Literary and Cultural Studies." Narratives of Crisis: Anglophone Literature and Culture in the Anthropocene (lecture series). 06.04.2017, FSU Jena, DE.
• "Ecocriticism and the Challenge of the Anthropocene." Regional Colloquium of American Studies (Netzwerk Amerikanistik Mitteldeutschland). 13.01.2017, Dt. Literaturinstitut Leipzig, DE.

PhD Candidate and Research Associate in American Studies, FSU Jena 

•  Dissertation Project: "Climate Grief in the Contemporary Memoir"
•  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Caroline Rosenthal 

Talks

•  "Climate Change, Grief, and the Genre of Memoir." Environmental Humanities: Writing the Self and Ecology (Seminar Series), Université Paris Cité, 06.03.2025. 
•  "Grieving Glaciers: Ice, Loss, and Literature." Ways of Water: Aquatic Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures (Lecture Series), FSU Jena & Universität Bremen, 08.05.2024.
•  "Mourning the More-Than-Human World: Climate Grief in the Contemporary Memoir." Regional Colloquium of American Studies, Universität Leipzig, 14.04.2023.
•  "Hope and Despair in Environmental Literature." Public Climate School, FSU Jena, 17.05.2022.

Other

Former Honours Student in the Honours Programme, FSU Jena

•  Honours Project: “Affect and Emotion in Climate Fiction”
•  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Caroline Rosenthal

PhD Candidate and Research Associate in American Studies, FSU Jena

•  Dissertation Project: Reading Environmental Violence in Contemporary American Young Adult Fiction (working title)
•  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Caroline Rosenthal 

Publications

• Rezension: Dana Luciano. How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Amerikastudien/American Studies, 69.3 (2024), (Manuscript Submitted).
• "Addressing a Failing US Environmental Education from Within: An Ecopedagogy of Fiction." 2022 DGfA Conference Proceedings, 2024 (Manuscript Submitted).
• "Post-Pandemic Walden: An Examination of Thoreauvian Place-Based Education Through Covid and Beyond" (with Caroline Rosenthal). Teacher Education in (Post-)Pandemic Times: International Perspectives on Interculturality, Diversity and Equity. Eds. Silke Braselmann, Lukas Eibensteiner, and Laurenz Volkmann. Lausanne: Peter Lang, 2024, 125-154.
• Rezension: "Karen Kilcup, Stronger, Truer, Bolder: American Children's Writing, Nature, and the Environment." gestern ROMANTIK heute.External link Forum für Wissenschaft and Kultur (2023).

Conference Talks

• "Drawing #WaterBack in Indigenous Picturebooks." Lecture Series, "Ways of Water: Aquating Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures," FSU Jena, 12.06.2024.
• "Literature and Literary Studies in/of the Anthropocene." (with Carolin Grzenia). Guest Lecture, "Teaching the Climate Crisis" Seminar, FSU Jena, 21.06.2023.
• "'Re-Drawing' Nature: The Environmental Imagination in Contemporary Picturebooks." Invited guest lecture in the seminar "Bilderbücher in der Grundschule," University of Potsdam, 26.09.2022.
• “Addressing a Failing US Environmental Education: The Potential of Young Adult Anthropocene Fiction.” Annual DGfA Meeting: Political Education & American Studies, University of Tübingen, June 9-11, 2022.
• “Crises, Chasms, and Unlikely Collectives: Growing Up in Contemporary Young Adult Eco-Dystopian Fiction.” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: Climate Change and the Anthropocene, virtual, 20.03.2021.
• “’Maybe it was the end of the world- that world’: An Examination of Hope in Young Adult Eco-Dystopian Fiction of the Anthropocene.” 31st Annual Mardi Gras Graduate Student Conference: Uncertain Futures: Exploring Ambiguities, Hopes and Anxieties, Louisiana State University, virtual, 10.02.2021.
• “At the Center of the Storm: A Critical Analysis of Adolescence in Young Adult Eco-Fiction.” Workshop on Constructions of Adolescence, Technische Universität Dresden, virtual, 16.07.2021.

PhD Candidate in American Studies, Fsu Jena;
Research Associate at the Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena, Institute of Advanced Studies 

•  Dissertation Project: Tree Activism in Contemporary North American Literature: Politicizing the Environment of the Pacific Northwest (working title)
•  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Caroline Rosenthal

Publications

• "Embracing the Loss of Nature: Searching for Responsibility in an Age of Crisis." COPAS Journal 22.1 (2021), with Florian Wagner. 
  https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/issue/view/43External link 

Events

• "Our Loves are Not Only Human: Collective Care and Entanglements." Reading workshop, 23.01. 2020, held at Akademie Schloss Solitude. 

PhD Candidate and Research Associate at the "Thüringer Wasser-Innovationscluster", FSU Jena

•  Dissertation Project: Narrating Water/Water's Narrativity: Representations of Rising Water in Contemporary Fiction (Arbeitstitel)
•  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Caroline Rosenthal

Publications

• Masslich, Hanna. "Salvage Watery Memory: Materiality and Memory in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones." COPAS - Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies 24:1 (2023), 58-72.

Talks

• "Water(y) Matter(s): Water's Materiality in Contemporary Theory and Fiction." Lecture Series: Ways of Water: Aquatic Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures, University of Bremen, July 3, 2024.
• "Noah's Ark Revisited: Investigating Flood Mythology in Contemporary Climate Fiction." International Conference: Narratives of Water: Flows, Routes, Crises in the Atlantic World, University of Turin, March 21-22, 2024.
• "Narrating Water/Water's Narrativity: Representations of (Rising) Water in Contemporary Fiction." Workshop: Current Research in American Studies, University of Flensburg, November 16, 2023.
• "Narrating Water: 'Modern,' 'Relational,' and 'Radical' Water in Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140." International Workshop: Relationality and More-Than-Human Storytelling, University of Augsburg, Juli 13-15, 2023.
• "Salvage Watery Memory: Materiality and Memory in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones." 32nd Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies: Remembering: Transnational Memory Cultures and American Studies, University of Regensburg, November 10-12, 2022.

Former PhD Candidate at the "Romanticism as a Model" research training group, FSU Jena 

•  Dissertation Project: (Re-)Imagining Nature, Gender, and Sexuality in American Romanticism and Beyond 
•  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Caroline Rosenthal 

Publications

• "Late Romanticism: Past and Present." [Conference report] Conference organized by the KU Leuven English Literature Research Group, 12.-14.12.2019, Leuven, in: gestern ROMANTIK heute, 14.01.2020, www.gestern-romantik-heute.uni-jena.de/index.php?cID=575External link 

Conference Talks

• "From Otherization to Identification? Re-Modeling the Romantic Self-Nature-Relation in (Proto-) Ecofeminist and Queer-Ecological Writings." International Workshop "Ecocritical Life Writing in the Dystopic Present". 05.-06.12.2019, Augsburg, DE.

PhD Candidate in American Studies, FSU Jena

•  Dissertation Project: Revisiting the Environmental Imagination: Planetary Poetics in Contemporary Canadian Poetry (working title)
•  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Caroline Rosenthal 

Publications

• Wagner, Florian. "Neo-Cosmopolitan Tidalectics as Planetary Poetics in Kaie Kellough's Magnetic Equator." Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies 11 (2022), 149-166. 
  https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/2254-1179/article/view/30684External link
• Wagner, Florian. "Julie Sze, Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger (Oakland: U of California P, 2020), 144 pp." Amerikastudien/American Studies 67: 2 (2022), 271-272. https://amst.winter-verlag.de/article/amst/2022/2/13/display/htmlExternal link
• "Embracing the Loss of Nature: Searching for Responsibility in an Age of Crisis." COPAS Journal 22.1 (2021), with Jaime Hyatt. 
  https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/issue/view/43External link 
• "Towards the Reinhabitation of the Soil: On Becoming Earthbound in Gary Snyder’s Turtle Island." In: Gina Comos und Caroline Rosenthal, eds. Anglophone Literature and Culture in the Anthropocene. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2019, 81-95.

Conference Talks (Selection)

• "Revisiting the Environmental Imagination: Planetary Poetics in Contemporary Canadian Poetry." Emerging Scholars Colloquium, 43rd Annual Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (GKS), February 17-19, 2022. http://www.kanada-studien.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/gks22_colloquium-booklet_final.pdfExternal link
• "'Keep Your Solar Plexus Shining Brighter Than Your Necklace': Female Empowerment and Holistic Spirituality in Environmentally Conscious Hip Hop" Hip Hop Ecologies- A Workshop, University of Konstanz, February 18-20, 2021.
• "Revisiting the Utopian Imaginary: Of Species-Being(s), the Multitude and Sympoietic Worlding in Times of Ecological Crisis." Historical Materialism Annual Conference 2019, November 07-11, 2019, SOAS London, GB. (DAAD Travel Grant)
• Wagner, Florian. "The Species-Being in the Anthropocene: Finding Companionship and Collectivizing Struggle in Gary Snyder’s Turtle Island." Historical Materialism Athens 2019, May 02-05, 2019, Panteion University Athens, GD.