Christina Gerhardt is former Barron Visiting Professor of Environmental Humanities at Princeton University and a former Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich. Her research focuses on the Environmental Humanities. She is the author of Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (University of California Press, 2023) called "a work of art" by the LA Times, named one of the "Best Popular Science Books of 2023" by the New Scientist and a finalist for the California Book Award. She is Editor-in-Chief of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, the quarterly journal of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) published by Oxford University Press.
Her scholarship also focuses on film. She is author of Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018); co-editor of 1968 and Global Cinema (Wayne State UP, 2018) and of Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long Sixties (Camden House, 2019); and guest editor of 1968 and West German Cinema, a special issue of The Sixties 10 (2017).
Professor Gerhardt has been awarded fellowships by the Fulbright Commission, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has also held visiting positions at Harvard University, Columbia University, the Free University Berlin and at the University of California at Berkeley, where she taught previously.
