Amanda Halter, M.A.

• Felgenhauer, Tilo and Karsten Gaebler, eds. Geographies of Digital Culture. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.
• Gruber, Eva and Caroline Rosenthal, eds. Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies. Rochester: Camden House, 2018.

• "Drawing #WaterBack: Decolonizing Water in/through Indigenous Picturebooks," Special Issue on Blue Humanities- LWU neue Folge - Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht edited by Caroline Rosenthal and Hanna Masslich, vol. 25:2 (in progress).
• "Adressing a Failing US Environmental Education from Within: An Ecopedagogy of Fiction," Political Education and American Studies edited by Astrid Franke, Uwe Küchler, and Kartharina Luther. American Studies: A Monograph Series, Band 324. Universitätsverlag WINTER Heidelberg: 2025, pp. 31-57. ONLINE: LINKExterner Link
• with Caroline Rosenthal. "Post-Pandemic Walden: An Examination of Thoreauvian Place-Based Education Through Covid-19 and Beyond," Teacher Education in (Post-)Pandemic Times and (Post-) Digital Times: International Perspectives on Intercultural Learning, Diversity and Equity edited by Silke Braselmann, Lukas Eibensteiner, and Laurenz Volkmann. Peter Lang: 2024, pp. 125-154. ONLINE: LINKExterner Link

• "Dana Luciano. How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Durham: Duke UP, 2024), pp. 242." Amerikastudien/American Studies, 69.4 (2024), 445-447. DOI: LINKExterner Link
• "Karen L. Kilup's Stronger, Truer, Bolder: American Children's Writing, Nature, and the Environment (Athens: U of Georgia Press, 2021), pp. 428." Gestern, Romantik, Heute: Forum für Wissenschaft und Kultur,  13.12.2023, n. pag. DOI: LINKExterner Link

• "Teaching New Archives of the Environmental Imagination: Nature, (English Language) Education, and Contemporary Picturebooks," at the Annual DGfA Meeting: Archiving America/American Archives, Siegen University, June 12-14, 2025.
• "The Evolution of Realism in US-American Young Adult Fiction" in the seminar "Einführung in die Kinder- und Jugendliteratur" by PD Dr. Sandra Kerschbaumer, FSU Jena, 2 Dec. 2024.
• "Drawing #WaterBack in Indigenous Picturebooks." Ringvorlesung, "Ways of Water: Aquating Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures," FSU Jena, 12.06.2024.
• "Soccer and Gender in North America and Germany" in the M.A. seminar "Football/Soccer and 21st Century Culture" by Prof. Dr. Christoph Ribbat, Universität Paderborn, 3 June 2024.
• "The Environmental Humanities." (with the Ecocriticism Research Collective). Ringvorlesung Nachhaltigkeit, FSU Jena, 02.11.2023.
• "Ecocriticism on the Ground: A Sketch of Ecocriticial Work at FSU". (with the Ecocriticism Research Collective). Research Colloquium at the Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, FSU Jena, 29.06.2023.
• "Literature and Literary Studies in/of the Anthropocene." (with Carolin Grzenia). Guest Lecture, "Teaching the Climate Crisis" Seminar, FSU Jena, 21.06.2023.
• "Bridging Place-Based Learning and Critical Pedagogy: Picturebooks as Practical Application." In "Workshop: Place-Based Education and Environmental Care," as part of the DFG-funded research training group "The Romantic Model" at FSU Jena, 11.05.23.
• “Facets of Literature in the Anthropocene.” (with Carolin Grzenia and Florian Wagner). Guest Lecture, “Nature Writing and Ecocriticism” Seminar, FSU Jena, 12.01.23. 
• "'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.
• "The Anthropocene in Art and Literature." (with Carolin Grzenia and Florian Wagner). Guest Lecture, "Romantic Thought in the Epoch of the Anthropocene" Seminar, FSU Jena, 03.05.2022.
• “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.
• “At the Center of the Storm: A Critical Analysis of Adolescence in Young Adult Eco-Fiction.” Workshop on Constructions of Adolescence, Hosted by Technische Universität Dresden, virtual, 16.07.2021.
• “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.
• “Ecocriticism and Young Adult Literature: Texts as Expressive Agents for Change.” Guest Lecture, Nature Writing and Ecocriticism Lecture Series, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, 21.01.2021.
• "The Bildungsroman in the Anthropocene: Reading Narratives of Formation in the New Epoch." Regional Colloquium of American Studies. 25.10.2019, Halle, DE.

• Children’s and Young Adult Literature
• Ecocriticism
• The Anthropocene in Literature and Culture
• Adaptation Studies: Film, Literature, and Popular Culture
• Literature Between the Wars and The Lost Generation

Affiliations, Memberships, and Academic Networks

• Children's Literature Association (ChLA)
• Ecocriticism Research Collective, Institute of American Studies, FSU Jena
• German Association of American Studies (DGfA/GAAS)
• Young Adult Studies Association (YASA)

MA COURSES:

• Keeping it "Real": Young Adult Fiction and Realism (WiSe 24/25)

BA COURSES:

• The Environmental Imagination in Children's Picturebooks (Uni Erfurt SoSe22; Jena SoSe25)
• Introduction to Literary Studies II (SoSe24)
• Demystifying Literary Theory (WiSe23/24)
• The Western (SoSe23) 
• Adaptation: Literature to/from Film and Beyond (WiSe22)
• Introduction to Literary Studies II (SoSe22)
• Introduction to Literary Studies II  (WiSe21/22)
• Wild Things: Children's Culture and Ecocriticism (SoSe21)
• Young Adult Literature (WiSE20/21)
• Gatsby(s) on the Silver Screen (WiSE20/21)
• Revisions of the Bildungsroman in Anglophone Literature and Culture (WiSE19/20)
• The Lost Generation (WiSE18/19)
• The American Bildungsroman (SoSe18)

• "Wasserwissen und Umweltbildung." Thüringer Wasser-Innovationscluster. (02.06.23)
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• "E10: (Re)reading Little Women for the Holiday Season" with Stefanie Schaefer, LadyFiction Podcast, The Trans-Atlanticist, 16.12.2021.
  Homepage: https://thetrans-atlanticist.podigee.io/s2e25-little-womenExterner Link
  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0dzPe1DK89i6whG7DqEtsZ?si=qvY_W_zBQfWr27Xz2yzE5gExterner Link
  Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ladyfiction-10-re-reading-little-women-for-the/id1548190601?i=1000545138035Externer Link

• "Environmental Crisis and Culture: An Introduction to Ecocriticism and a Public Discussion" (with Ecocriticism Research Collective). Public Climate School, FSU Jena, 22.11.2021.
• "Climate Change Stories: A Reading and Discussion" (with Jamie Hyatt). Public Climate School, FSU Jena, 19.05.2021.
• "The Climate Crises and the Literary Imagination: A Reading and Discussion" (with Ecocriticism Research Collective). Public Climate School, FSU Jena, 21.11.2020.